Peel Ports, which owns and operates six of the UK's most important ports and also operates a container terminal in Dublin, has awarded a number of general construction and marine construction frameworks worth an estimated £750 million.
Peel Ports, which owns and operates six of the UK's most important ports and also operates a container terminal in Dublin, has awarded a number of general construction and marine construction frameworks worth an estimated £750 million.
Photo credit Peel Ports: London Medway
Peel Ports are implementing a series of group construction frameworks to help improve efficiency of delivery through collaboration and early engagement with its supply chain and to gain benefits from the optimisation of design and construction best practices and solutions.
According to the owner of the Port of Liverpool, Heysham Port, Manchester Ship Canal, Medway (Sheerness / Chatham), Clydeport (Greenock, Hunterston, Ardrossan) and Great Yarmouth, the group construction frameworks will deliver best value, cost surety with improved levels of service and performance, quality, programme delivery and client satisfaction.
Peel Ports says they have appointed suitably qualified and experienced organisations to provide design and construction services and works for marine and general engineering projects both nationally and locally.
The contract first went out to tender in March 202 in the following Lots:
- Lot 1SC - Scotland General Construction (6 bids received)
- Lot 1SE - South East General Construction (4 bids received)
- Lot 1DU - Dublin General Construction (3 bids received)
- Lot 1NW - North West General Construction (8 bids received)
- Lot 2NW - North West Marine Construction (5 bids received)
- Lot 2SE - South East Marine Construction (4 bids received)
- Lot 2SC - Scotland Marine Construction (5 bids received)
- Lot 3 - National Major Works (5 bids received)
The following suppliers have all been awarded a place on the framework:
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The key requirements for the contracts are as follows :
- To ensure Peel Ports has access to a panel of organisations who can cover the required disciplines
- Drive H&S improvements across projects
- Ability to collaborate in the development of efficient solutions
- Engagement in programme led efficiencies, opportunities and development
- Identify suitable opportunities for best practice from other sectors
- Access to rate cards that promote standardisation to assist budget forecasting
- The provision of high quality Services and Works
- Ability to develop efficient innovative and sustainable design and build construction solutions
- Ability to collaborate and bring best practice skills from other sectors
- To support the successful delivery of projects
- Provision of suitably qualified project teams with appropriate experience in the delivery of projects who operate at a continuous high standard
- Support Peel Ports on a journey to become a net zero port operator by 2040
Frameworks have been awarded for a maximum of eight years - an initial fixed term of four years with two optional extension periods, each of two years.
Photo credit Peel Ports: Manchester Ship Canal
Scope of general construction works to be provided under the wide-ranging framework include:
- drainage, construction and maintenance of new and existing roads and carparks
- earthworks and ground remediation
- foundations and piling
- construction, maintenance and refurbishment of new and existing warehouses
- rail construction
- bridge construction and refurbishment
- steel fabrication
- Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Control and Automation (MEICA)
Typical marine construction projects will include;
- enabling works
- piling works
- fenders/jettys/dolphins and berth furniture
- revetments/quay walls
- drainage and utilities
- bridge/linkspan construction
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