Decision details
Contract Award for 'Polegate Primary School Extension'
Decision Maker: Assistant Director of Procurement
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Purpose:
East Sussex County Council (‘the
Council’) has a requirement to increase the number of school
places at certain schools throughout East Sussex. The demand for
school places in East Sussex is driven by housing growth, inward
migration and increases in births. Due to a shortage of primary
school places in the Polegate area of East Sussex, delivery of the
1FE expansion is needed in 2018 to reduce the requirement for
temporary classrooms. The expansion will increase the number of
places and opportunities for children’s learning within the
community.
Decision:
It was decided that this tender should be
directly awarded to Wernick Modular Buildings Ltd using the
Fusion21 Education and Modular Buildings Framework Lot 3 (Option
1)
Alternative options considered:
Option 2: Southern Modular Framework
This multi-supplier framework (Lot 3) would allow for a mini
competition to be run determining the most economically
advantageous supplier. This would likely yield a similar result to
the single supplier framework rates (Fusion21) as the supplier was
evaluated and awarded from 12 other suppliers who submitted bids.
This option would also potentially delay the project as it would
take a minimum of around 6 weeks to get a supplier in place.
Option 3: Orbis Construction Framework
This multi-supplier framework (Lot 2) would allow for a mini
competition which would likely yield a similar result to the single
supplier framework rates (Fusion21) as the supplier. There may
however also be further costs resulting from preliminary
engagements as these suppliers are not specialist MMC contractors.
These contractors would likely consider the more expensive and
increased construction times of traditional construction methods.
This option would also potentially delay the project as it would
take a minimum of around 6 weeks to get a supplier in place.
Publication date: 10/12/2018
Date of decision: 19/11/2018