Ward Refurbishment Programme - Main Contractor
Planned
Key facts
- Closing date
- Not stated by the buyer
- Buyer's estimated value
- £30,000,000 (excl. VAT) The buyer's own estimate, not income to you.
- Contract period
- 31 May 2027 to 31 May 2032
- Procedure
- Not stated
- Notice type
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Decision brief
Taken from the buyer's published notice (shown as written, shortened where long). Tenderpatch has not added to or interpreted it. Always read the official documents before bidding.
- How bids will be scored
- Not stated in the notice.
- Conditions of participation (what you must show)
- None published in the notice. They may be in the tender documents.
- Contract length and extensions
- 31 May 2027 to 31 May 2032.
- How to submit
- Not stated in the notice.
- Tender documents
- No document links in the notice. Use the official notice link.
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- Framework
- An agreement that sets terms for work the buyer may order later, often from several suppliers. The value shown usually covers the whole agreement, not one job.
- Open for bids / closing date
- You must submit by the closing date and time, normally through the buyer's own online portal. Late bids are normally refused.
- Clarification questions
- A deadline for asking the buyer questions about the tender. It is earlier than the closing date.
- Conditions of participation
- What the buyer asks suppliers to show before they can be considered, such as experience, insurance or accreditations.
- Bids are scored on
- How the buyer will compare bids, usually a split between price and quality. A 60/40 split in favour of quality means the cheapest bid will not necessarily win.
- Lots
- A tender can be split into parts. You can often bid for only the lots that suit you.
- Area (ITL)
- The buyer names an official statistical area for where the work is, not a street address. Check the tender documents for the actual sites.
- UK4 and other notice codes
- Official codes for the type of notice. A "tender notice" means bids are being invited.
General explanations written by Tenderpatch, not part of this notice.
Description
This market engagement questionnaire is issued in accordance with Guys & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT) procurement and governance procedures. The issue of this questionnaire follows GSTT approval to engage with the market to gauge capacity and interest for the procurement of the GSTT Ward Refurbishment programme.
As one of the UK's largest and most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, GSTT leads in healthcare innovation and excellence. Centred in London, the Trust incorporates five hospitals, each with a rich legacy of clinical brilliance and pioneering research. The hospitals include:
- Guy’s Hospital;
- St Thomas’ Hospital;
- Evelina London Children’s Hospital;
- Royal Brompton Hospital;
- Harefield Hospital;
- Associated Community Sites.
The GSTT Ward Refurbishment Programme covers ward refurbishments across the above GSTT estate, aimed at ensuring the Trust’s estate remains fit for purpose, and best placed to ensure the continued delivery of clinical excellence now and into the future.
The Ward Refurbishment Programme will adopt a tiered, risk-based scope, enabling investment to be proportionate to clinical, infrastructure, and statutory risk. The final scope for each ward will be confirmed following detailed surveys, risk assessments, and cost modelling. This approach allows the programme to prioritise highest-risk interventions while maintaining affordability and operational continuity. As such, this procurement exercise will need to incorporate a degree of
flexibility, and centres on the development of a long-term partnership essential to ensure the successful delivery of this important programme.
The key Trust objectives underpinning this procurement exercise are:
- Ease of use – GSTT are currently delivering a significant number of construction projects across the GSTT estate. These appointments need to facilitate the ease at which these
projects are delivered.
- Equal Opportunity – the tender should provide equal opportunity to all suitably qualified tenderers and does not restrict SMEs and smaller local suppliers.
- Flexibility of Value – successful tenderers should be able to be appointed across a range of construction values. On this basis the contractual and pricing mechanisms should allow
flexibility to suit different value bands.
- Flexibility of Scope – the tender should allow flexibility to potentially support wider clinicalspace refurbishment projects across the Trust (excluding specialist areas such as theatres,
cath labs and major medical equipment programmes which will require separate procurement routes).
- Social Value – the tenders should promote genuine social value for GSTT and the local environment.
- Continued workflow – the tender should facilitate the continued instruction of work with a
permanent contractor presence on site, although this will not be guaranteed.
- Speed of delivery – GSTT require a procurement mechanism which will allow access to the market at the earliest opportunity.
Whilst specific work scopes are to be developed, the works are likely to include general ward modernisation, ventilation upgrades, building safety compliance works (including Building Safety Act Gateway 2 applications where required), and integration with existing specialist systems (building management systems, nurse call, medical gases, security, fire alarms, data and IT).