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Construction Contract Leads

Scope

Reference

WNC00000628

Description

West Northamptonshire Council invite Potential Providers to quote for the refurbishment works at Northampton Central Library.

Scope:

Enhancing Northampton Central Library to provide a wider range of services with improved facilities, including a family hub.

To refurbish and improve Northampton Central Library, built in 1910 and located in the heart of Northampton town centre.

The project will make the Grade II Listed building more flexible, accessible and safer, and with greater commercial potential from the refurbishment of the Carnegie Room.

Improvements to existing facilities to include the refurbishment of the existing lift into an evacuation lift, additional new Registrar’s office, new children’s 0-19/25 family hub facilities including two new therapy rooms, a new sensory room and new accessible toilets, refurbishment of the Carnegie meeting room, new staff room and classroom areas and redecoration to specified areas of the library including the basement.

Northampton Central Library saw over 175,000 visits in the last 12 months. The library provides functions including the Business & IP service (BIPC) and Discover, the local and family history centre as well as West Northamptonshire's main Registrar’s office.

The library is also used as a ‘welcoming space’ and the ‘flagship’ library of the WNC library service, acting as a gateway to other Council services. Both the library and registrar’s offices are means of delivering statutory services. The Council is developing a network of family hubs across West Northamptonshire to incorporate children’s centres, a statutory function under Sections 5A to 5G of the Childcare Act 2006.

This procurement is conducted in accordance with the Procurement Act 2023 under the Regulated Below Threshold procedure as an Open advertised quotation and the Reserved Below Threshold applies:

Participation - Reserved Below Threshold - This procurement is reserved by supplier location in the geographical area of the County of Northamptonshire (Northampton, Daventry and South Northamptonshire) and bordering counties to Northamptonshire; Leicestershire, Rutland, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Lincolnshire and Warwickshire, meaning only suppliers located in these geographical areas can bid. Request for Quotation submissions that are submitted by Potential Suppliers outside of the reserved supplier location will be rejected and not evaluated.

Potential Suppliers will be assessed on their suitability to perform the contract as part of the conditions of participation, as pass/fail evaluation criteria, Potential Suppliers that fail will be rejected.

Site visits will be available outside of opening hours.

Potential Suppliers who wish to attend the out of hours site visits are to confirm their attendance and number of attendees and preferred date via the ‘Correspondence’ section of the In-Tend portal by:

15:00 on Thursday 26th March for the Friday 27th March site visit and by 16:00 on Friday 27th March for the Monday 30th March site visit.

Potential Suppliers may also visit the library during public opening hours.

Expected Start on site May 2026 and Practical Completion May 2027.

Please view the quotation pack for full details via WNC In-Tend portal.

Total value (estimated)

• £0 including VAT

Below the relevant threshold

Contract dates (estimated)

• 25 May 2026 to 26 May 2027
• 1 year, 2 days

Main procurement category

Works

CPV classifications

• 45262700 - Building alteration work
• 45300000 - Building installation work
• 45453100 - Refurbishment work

Contract locations

• UKF24 - West Northamptonshire

Submission

Tender submission deadline

27 April 2026, 12:00pm

Submission address and any special instructions

Tenders may be submitted electronically

Yes

Award criteria

Potential Suppliers will be assessed on the suitability to perform the contract as part of the conditions of participation as pass/fail criteria on the Reserved Supplier Location, Finance Capacity, Insurance, Legal Capacity, Technical Ability, Sub-Contractor Experience, DBS, H&S, Modern Slavery and GDPR. Potential Suppliers that do not pass will be rejected and their Quality and Price response will not be evaluated further. Full criteria details can be found within the quotation pack.

Quality & Price - The Award Criteria carries a total weight of 100%. This is split between the following; Quality 60% and Price 40%. The scores from these sections will be added together and the Potential Supplier with the highest overall score will be awarded the contract. The scores for each of these sections will be calculated as per the methodologies described in Request for Quote document.

Procedure

Procedure type

Below threshold - open competition

Documents

Associated tender documents

Contracting authority

West Northamptonshire Council

• Public Procurement Organisation Number: PGDV-8944-CMBP

Angel Street

Northampton

NN1 1ED

United Kingdom

Contact name: Claire Baker

Email: procurement [at] westnorthants.gov.uk

Website: /

Region: UKF24 - West Northamptonshire

Organisation type: Public authority - sub-central government