Decision details

The extent of the survey will cover the entire existing depot site and in addition, within the scope of the new depot expansion, there is a proposal to construct a new building which will be located within the current Supertram site at Nunnery, therefore there is a need for a Geotechnical survey to provide a detailed examination of the ground to ascertain its capacity to support structures ensuring that construction projects are built on solid foundations.

The recommendation is to appoint Dunelm to complete the Geotechnical Survey at a cost of £128,000. Of the four companies that were invited to submit an offer, two tenders were received, and both were scored according to a framework exercise. As the result of this framework exercise Dunelm scored the 77.6% which makes them the most economically advantageous tender.

Do minimum
Appoint Dunelm to complete the Geotechnical survey at a cost of £128,000 as they provided the most economically advantageous tender.

Viable alternative option
Do not appoint either of the current tenders and the Geotechnical Survey will need to go out to tender again. This will increase the delay to the project timeline, as such we do not recommend this approach.