Contract

Services Concession Contract for Port Operation Services at the Port of Ramsgate

  • Thanet District Council

F25: Concession award notice

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-002896

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-048bd7

Published 28 January 2025, 5:24pm



Section one: Contracting authority/entity

one.1) Name and addresses

Thanet District Council

PO Box 9

Margate

CT91XZ

Contact

Gemma Paul

Email

gemma.paul@thanet.gov.uk

Country

United Kingdom

Region code

UKJ4 - Kent

Justification for not providing organisation identifier

Not on any register

Internet address(es)

Main address

www.thanet.gov.uk

one.4) Type of the contracting authority

Regional or local authority

one.5) Main activity

General public services


Section two: Object

two.1) Scope of the procurement

two.1.1) Title

Services Concession Contract for Port Operation Services at the Port of Ramsgate

two.1.2) Main CPV code

  • 98362000 - Port management services

two.1.3) Type of contract

Services

two.1.4) Short description

Thanet District Council as Statutory Harbour Authority is seeking to award a Services Concession Contract for the operation, equipping,

enhancement, promotion, management and maintenance of a 18 acre site consisting of two roll on/roll off berths and surrounding portside land 15/08/2024, 13:59 Services Concession Contract for Port Operation Services at the Port of Ramsgate - Find a Tender at the Port of Ramsgate. The contract will be for an initial period of twenty (20) years, with the option to extend for a further period of five (5) years. Thanet District Council is conducting the procurement in accordance with the requirements of the Concession Contracts Regulations 2016 (as amended) ("CCR 2016"). Please refer to the procurement documents for further details.

two.1.5) Estimated total value

Value excluding VAT: £325,000,000

two.1.6) Information about lots

This concession is divided into lots: No

two.2) Description

two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

  • 45241000 - Harbour construction works
  • 63000000 - Supporting and auxiliary transport services; travel agencies services
  • 71220000 - Architectural design services

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UKJ44 - East Kent
Main site or place of performance

Port of Ramsgate, 21 Military Road, Ramsgate,

Kent CT11 9FT

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

Thanet District Council as Statutory Harbour Authority is undertaking a procurement for the provision of services relating to the operation, equipping, enhancement, promotion, management and maintenance of the Berths and Site at the Port of Ramsgate. The Contract will be structured as a services concession.

The Council received a grant from the Levelling Up Fund ("LUF") in 2021, and has committed to allocating part of the LUF funding towards investment in infrastructure at the Site. The Council intends to make [£4.5 million] LUF funding available to the Concessionaire by way of a grant agreement for the purposes of delivering capital works at the Site. Bidders will be required,

in addition to their proposals for the delivery of the Services, to set out their proposals for delivering any capital works in their tenders.

An overview of the intended procurement process (which includes the ability to have dialogue with shortlisted Bidders) is as follows:

Stage 1 - Combined Qualification and Invitation to

Submit Initial Tenders Stage (ISIT Stage)

Stage 2 - Dialogue

Stage 3 - Invitation to Submit Final Tenders

Stage 4 - Preferred Bidder Stage

Stage 5 - Contract Award

Thanet District Council intends to invite a maximum of three (3) Bidders to participate in Dialogue following the ISIT Stage.

Bidders should note that they will be required to enter into a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) to access certain information which is designated as confidential and/or commercially sensitive. Bidders are advised to sign and submit the form of NDA provided in the tender pack on the Portal (unamended) promptly in accordance with the instructions set out therein so that they are able to access such information.

Please see the procurement documents for further details available from the Kent Business Portal contract opportunity page

(www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk

(https://www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk)).

two.2.5) Award criteria

Concession is awarded on the basis of the criteria described below:

  • Criterion: Concession is awarded on the basis of the criteria stated in the procurement documents

two.2.7) Duration of the concession

Duration in days

300


Section four. Procedure

four.1) Description

four.1.1) Form of procedure

Award procedure with prior publication of a concession notice

four.2) Administrative information

four.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure

Notice number: 2024/S 000-026229


Section five. Award of concession

A concession/lot is awarded: No

five.1) Information on non-award

The concession/lot is not awarded

Other reasons (discontinuation of procedure)


Section six. Complementary information

six.3) Additional information

No viable bids were received during the Tender process. The Procurement process was abandoned.

six.4) Procedures for review

six.4.1) Review body

Royal Courts of Justice London

London

Country

United Kingdom