Awarded contract

Residence Transaction for George Eliot Hall and Rusham Park

Details

Value
£85,000,000
Duration
53 years
Topic
Accommodation management services
Published
2 April 2021

Tender description

Text to be corrected in the original notice: Place of text to be modified: None Instead of: None Read: VII.2)Other additional information: In accordance with regulation 55(1) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College (also known as Royal Holloway University of London), has taken the decision not to proceed with the Procurement for the following reasons: the financial pressures that the increased costs of borrowing taken together with the increase in construction costs mean that the Project, in its current form, is no longer financially viable for RHUL. Other additional information: In accordance with regulation 55(1) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College (also known as Royal Holloway University of London), has taken the decision not to proceed with the Procurement for the following reasons: the financial pressures that the increased costs of borrowing taken together with the increase in construction costs mean that the Project, in its current form, is no longer financially viable for RHUL. Royal Holloway and Bedford New College is seeking to enter into a long-term agreement with one partner to support in meeting its growth strategy and accommodation needs of its students. This will involve the potential delivery (design, build, finance, operation and maintenance (soft and hard FM)) of a c.2000 bed student village through a demand risk partnership over one or more phases and shall also include the stock transfer, finance and operation and maintenance (soft and hard FM services) of its existing student accommodation residence, George Eliot Hall.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award published2 April 2021
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Award date1 September 2021
  3. Next: Contract expiry date1 September 2074

About the buyer

Royal Holloway, University of London is a higher education institution based in Egham, Surrey. The university procures through direct open tendering, higher-education frameworks and under-threshold purchasing set out in its financial standing orders, following the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Suppliers also bid through a dedicated tender portal hosted on the EU Supply platform. The university is a member of the London Universities Purchasing Consortium. That consortium gives London's universities, including Royal Holloway, shared access to pre-tendered frameworks for common goods and services purchases. Daniel Barry represents Royal Holloway on the consortium's executive committee.

Education procurement reached £47.4bn in 2024/25, the fourth-largest public sector budget.

Over the past 5 years, most of Royal Holloway, University of London's contract awards have been in construction work, software and information systems and printed matter.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 98341100 · Accommodation management services

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