Support Services for the Development of the Built Environment

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Value

£42,000,000

Suppliers

Classifications

  • Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services
  • Architectural and related services
  • Construction-related services
  • Construction, foundation and surface works for highways, roads
  • Engineering services
  • Urban planning and landscape architectural services
  • Consultative engineering and construction services
  • Marine survey services
  • Engineering design services
  • Mechanical engineering services
  • Mechanical and electrical engineering services
  • Engineering studies
  • Engineering support services
  • Architectural, engineering and planning services
  • Construction project management services
  • Project management consultancy services
  • Contract administration services
  • Technical planning services
  • Urban planning services
  • Quantity surveying services

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  • contract

Published

3 years ago

Description

The Association of North East Councils Limited Trading As the North East Procurement Organisation (NEPO) have established a multi-Supplier, multi-Lot Framework Agreement to provide Support Services for the Development of the Built Environment.
The resulting solution will facilitate the provision of skilled expertise & resources to assist Contracting Authorities in circumstances where they deem appropriate. These circumstances may include managing peaks in workload, occasions where the required skills are not available in-house, demonstration of best value, facilitating benchmarking, driving service improvement, additional innovation and efficiencies.
The Framework Agreement provides a compliant route to market for Contracting Authorities to appoint consultants for construction, civil engineering, highways and transportation. The appointments will be made under the following Terms & Conditions:
JCT Consultancy Agreement (Public Sector) 2016 edition
NEC3 - Professional Services Contract
NEC3 - Professional Services Short Contract
NEC4 - Professional Services Contract
NEC4 - Professional Services Short Contract
ACE Professional Services Agreement Advisory, Investigatory and other Services 2019 Edition
ACE Professional Services Agreement 2017
This list is not exhaustive and other standard forms of contract are permissible including bespoke contracts of the Contracting Authority.
It is anticipated that this Framework Agreement will be utilised for funded projects, including but not limited to, European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF), Heritage Lottery Funding (HLF), Levelling Up Fund (LUF), The Towns Fund (Town Deals & FHSF), Sport England and others, although the detail of this is currently unknown.
NEPO does not give any guarantee and/or warrant the actual value of orders (if any) which will be placed with the successful suppliers by any Contracting Authority using the Framework Agreement pursuant to this process and accepts no liability thereof.

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Alternative image annotation software may be used subject to agreement with the project officer. • Ensure that stills and video references used in analysis outputs are identical to those used in the naming of the original media to enable future reconciliation between data and media. If identical naming is not possible, a suitable alternative should be sought with JNCC. Some information, where specified, may be recorded directly into the proformas provided. The majority will be recorded first into BIIGLE and then used to populate the proforma. No analysis additional to what is described in this document is required. Any deviation from this methodology should be approved in writing by the project officer. 4.1. Analysis of video data from drop-camera Video should be analysed in BIIGLE using the label trees shown in Table 2. A high-level review should be conducted as described in section 2.1 of Turner et al (2016). 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Use the biotope label tree to assign biotopes, up to level 6 of the Marine habitat classification of Britain and Ireland hierarchy and in accordance with Parry (2019)7. 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Record substrate type and Faunal Turf cover to nearest 10% directly to proforma.

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