{"id":844392,"date":"2025-04-29T09:11:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/scottish-council-seeks-contractor-for-37-5m-flood-protection-scheme\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T09:11:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:11:36","slug":"scottish-council-seeks-contractor-for-37-5m-flood-protection-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/scottish-council-seeks-contractor-for-37-5m-flood-protection-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish council seeks contractor for \u00a337.5m flood protection scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper_sleeve\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ca.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/04\/Scotland.webp\"   alt=\"Scotland.webp\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>This story was written with AI assistance from Harmsworth<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/tech\/why-construction-news-is-using-ai-to-assist-with-our-writing-31-03-2025\/\">Who is Harmsworth?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dumfries and Galloway Council has started the search for a contractor to deliver early involvement and construction works on the \u00a337.5m Whitesands flood protection and public realm project.<\/p>\n<p>The council is seeking a single supplier for a two-stage process covering early contractor involvement (ECI) and the main works at Whitesands in Dumfries.<\/p>\n<p>ECI in stage one will involve the successful consultant collaborating with scheme designers to finalise detailed designs, attending workshops, and offering construction advice to optimise buildability, cost, and efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>Stage two will see the contractor deliver the full construction programme, including health and safety management, site and traffic management, waste handling, and planning condition discharge, the council said in a prior information notice.<\/p>\n<p>Interested firms must submit bids by 12pm on 27 May via the Public Contracts Scotland portal.<\/p>\n<p>The works will be procured through an open procedure, with quality carrying a 60 per cent weighting and price 40 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>The contract is set to run for 36 months.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1685\" data-end=\"1735\"><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.find-tender.service.gov.uk\/Notice\/007999-2025?origin=SearchResults&#038;p=1\">Gov.uk Find a Tender<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/civils\/scottish-council-seeks-contractor-for-37-5m-flood-protection-scheme-28-04-2025\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Ben Vogel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story was written with AI assistance from Harmsworth Who is Harmsworth? Dumfries and Galloway Council has started the search for a contractor to deliver early involvement and construction works on the \u00a337.5m Whitesands flood protection and public realm project. The council is seeking a single supplier for a two-stage process covering early contractor involvement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":844393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27471,28258],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-844392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-council","8":"category-scottish"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}