Minister for Enterprise, Innovation & Networks (Chair) Minister for Education and Life-long Learning. Minister for Finance, Local Government and Public Services (Other Ministers with an interest in any of the agenda items for a meeting of the Steering Group will be invited to attend as appropriate.) 2. The Group’s terms of reference are to: • lead, monitor and oversee the Assembly Government’s commitments to the MoD and Metrix Consortium to ensure the successful delivery of the Defence Training Academy (DTA) proposals at St Athan in accordance with Metrix’s project timetable; • coordinate a collective effort across all levels of Government through identifying and ensuring coherence on all policy priority and operational issues that contribute to the realisation of the DTA project; • facilitate the effective engagement of private and public sector partners on the realisation of the DTA vision for St Athan; • ensure that the resource allocation process, both financial and staff, reflects the need for cross-portfolio budgeting to meet agreed priorities as set out in the Project Implementation Plan, when known, and that these priorities are tracked against delivery; 3. The Group shall keep its role under review, and shall evaluate its work and the need for its continued existence two years. 4. The Group will meet quarterly, in private unless it resolves otherwise. It will report to the full Cabinet from time to time. It may involve individuals and organisations from outside the Assembly to contribute to its work as appropriate. 5. The Secretariat for the Group will be provided by the Integrated Delivery Team in DEIN. The work of the Group will be supported by the well established St Athan Steering Group of senior officials. This will be expanded to include senior officials from DELLS and Local Government & Finance. [DOC]
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Information Further to Ministerial Answers Information further to OAQ(3)0092(FM) issued by Brian Gibbons, the Minister for Social Justice and Local Government, in July 2007 To Andrew R.T. Davies:
....improvements required as a direct result of the proposed developments at St Athan which the Assembly Government is considering taking forward, namely: • New Northern access to the St Athan site from the B4265, including consequential improvements to access around the site; • Improvements to B4265 at Gilestone Old Mill; • Improvements to B4265 at the crossroads into St Athan village; • Waycock Cross junction improvements.
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Council through its working relationship with DEIN, as no details were directly .....St Athan and planned direct access to the M4 its success can only now ...
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From: Cotton, Peter (DEIN)
Sent: 22 September 2006 15:00
To: Alan.Davies@capita.co.uk
Cc: Perren, Jeff (DE & T)
Subject: FW: ST Athan Highway Works - Invitation to Tender
Attachments: Contact Data - St Athan Highways.doc
You are invited to tender an offer for a commission by WAG to undertake the services described below. The commission is the development of an existing commission which has progressed to the financial limits of its current contractual arrangements (£50k) so a tender is being sought from consultants contracted by the framework agreement inherited from the former WDA. You are not obliged to tender and a decision by you not to do so will certainly not prejudice your position for further WAG commissions. Please note that if you do decide to tender it must bedelivered to the address described below in the envelopes described below before noon on 11th October 2006 . I shall be unavailable for assistance before that date, so the envelopes will be provided by Mr Jeff Perren, tel 01443 845800, email jeff.perren@wales.gsi.gov.uk. Please contact him to inform him of the address to which you require the envelopes tobe sent. and to make any other enquiries you may have about the details of the commission.
The conditions of contract for the commission will be as described in the core clauses and the clauses of Options A, X2, X9, X11.1, Y(UK)1 and Y(UK)2 of the second edition, June 1998, of ‘The Professional Services Contract’ published for the Institution of Civil Engineers.
BACKGROUND
The Assembly owns most of the several hundred acres of the former RAF St Athan Airfield, which remains operationally active. The present occupancy of the Assembly's site by the Ministry of Defence (primarily the RAF and DARA [Defence Aviation Repair Agency]) is progressively reducing , but a few other occupancies are continuing. The Army is the most significant neighbouring occupier of the remainder of the former airfield.
Redevelopment of much of the Assembly's site is the basis of a bid by a consortium, Metrix, for two very substantial contracts that are scheduled to be awarded by the MoD for very extensive and comprehensive training of military personnel. The award of the MoD's contracts form a key stage in the MoD's revue of the UK's defence related training (DTR).
The Assembly intends to develop the remainder of the airfield as an AerospacePark i.e. a business park for aviation-related employment.
To-date, regular and frequent meetings have been held with the local highway and planning authorities representatives and an assessment of anticipated traffic movements has informed a development brief for the proposals which has been adopted by the local planning authority. The development brief shows that the prime access to the DRY development and /or the Aerospace Park will be achieved by the construction of a road linking the site to the eastern-end of the Llantwit Major Bypass, north of Boverton, but also linking to Cowbridge Road north of St Athan. The latter link is necessary to replace a highway-link/bus route which currently passes through the north of the airfield. Further off-site highway-improvements are required to mitigate the effects of the development, viz. the improvement of highway geometry of the B4265 at the St Athan war-memorial and at Gileston Old Mill, approximately 1 km east of St Athan, plus capacity improvements at the A4226 Waycock Cross Roundabout.An environmental assessment of the preferred route of the prime access was undertaken by White Young Green, together with the relevant environmental surveys required to prepare an Environmental Station which gives due consideration to the sensitive issues along the route.The EA continues to be refined as the design of the route is also being refined, in particular at its eastern extremity where options continue to be assessed. A full topographical aerial-survey was completed and a ground model developed, enabling the highway alignment to be accurately designed.A preliminary ground investigation was also carried out along the preferred route, enabling the engineering properties of the ground to be determined.
The design development of the route has included discussions with many interested parties to address their concerns with appropriate consideration of the scheme’s objectives:
The current approved design drawings, calculations and other relevant criteria are available electronically from Alan Davies of Capita [email Alan.Davies@capita.co.uk]. All tenderers must make themselves familiar with the these documents and, if awarded the commission, must accept them as the basis of their further refinement and development of the proposals.
To provide sufficient information to achieve planning permission and contractual contracts for the construction and adoption of the prime access and related highway improvements for the redevelopment of RAF St Athan in accord with the development brief adopted by the local planning authority.
OBJECTIVES OF THE COMMISSION
(i) WAG wishes to complete an integrated team to develop and finalise the design of the scheme’s components in sufficient detail to draft the necessary compulsory-purchase order(s) and achieve a planning application by early January 2007.
(ii) The granting of a suitable and acceptable planning permission for the northern access road to/from the Llantwit Major ByPass from/to Cowbridge Road north of St Athan.
(iii) The granting of a suitable and acceptable planning permission for improvements to the B4265 at the St Athan war-memorial and at Gileston Old Mill plus the A4266 Waycock Cross Roundabout.
(iv) The creation of tender documents, including a sufficiently detailed design, for a design & build contract to provide the works to a standard that is acceptable and adoptable by the local highway authority. Details of the model form of the required terms & conditions of the design & build contract are available from Mr Jeff Perren, whose contact details are described above.
TASKS
Clearly the tasks that are necessary to achieve such broad objectives are many and varied. Each tenderer is required to provide and price his Activity Schedule and included it in Envelope B. The Activity Schedule must include the following subjects, subdivided & priced as the tenderer deems appropriate.
Perform a Stage 1 Safety audit of the designs produced to-date by Capita. Copies of the designs (including traffic & drainage capacities calculations) are attached.
Complete the designs in sufficient detail and/to produce a planning submission acceptable to the local highway authority, local planning authority and all other relevant authorities, including the Environment Agency.
Any land required is likely to be acquired through a Compulsory Purchase Order.The statutory procedures to be followed shall be concurrent, in which case the Side Roads Orders and Compulsory Purchase Orders shall be prepared as nearly concurrently as possible.The Orders shall be published in draft and subsequently processed simultaneously.The Consultant may be requested to assist the Employer with this work.
Complete the designs in sufficient detail for the letting of a competition, by lump-sum tender, for the detailed design & construction of the highway works, including necessary ancillary works (e.g. drainage), of the prime access, described above, and the further off-site highway-improvements that are required to mitigate the effects of the development , viz. the improvement of highway geometry of the B4265 at the St Athan war-memorial and at Gileston Old Mill, plus capacity improvements at the A4226 Waycock Cross Roundabout.
Following the acceptance of the commissionthe Consultant shall be required to attend weekly progress meetings with the client, WAG at Cardiff, Treforest or St Athan.The minimum attendance at these meetings shall be key staff appropriate to the stage of the design. The first meeting shall be held within five working days following WAG's issue of the award of the commission.There will be a standard agenda for the meetings prepared by the Employer. The Consultant shall also be required to attend additional meetings as required by/with WAG to discuss any matter relating to the project.The Consultant shall take the minutes of these meetings and distribute them promptly after the meeting.
The Consultant shall assist the Employer with various Public Relations initiatives.
Unless agreed otherwise all contact with the media will be via the Employer.
INFORMATION REQUIRED TO BE PROVIDED IN THE TENDER
i) Your tender must describe your understanding of the commission and your abilities, with recent relevant experience in the production of such works as described in the brief below. Ideally you will be able to provide the locations in the UK of constructed examples of similar works that you have designed.
ii) You must identify the resources and skills you would make available to perform the commission, with a breakdown of the time allocated for tasks and who would be involved. The breakdown must include your estimate of your staff’s attendance at a reasonable number of meetings with the Agency, the local authority and other relevant bodies. You must identify and provide CVs for each of the persons who would be involved. You must describe their professional experience and location(s) from where their services would be provided.
iii) You must provide a list of relevant, recently completed contracts.
iv) You must supply confirmation that you hold appropriate indemnity cover and public liability cover, both of at least as defined in the attached ‘Contract Data’.
v) You must confirm your quality procedures, health & safety and environmental policies.
vi) You must provide an activity schedule and programme of those activities, dividing the commission into stages including, as separate stages, all of the tasks described above.
vii) You must confirm that all necessary services to achieve the aims & objectives of the commission, as described above, are included in your activity schedule. Clarify what additional services, if any, you expect others, outside the commission, to provide to achieve all authorisations and permissions for the construction and adoption of the works.
viii) You must provide lump sum prices for each of the activities. The lump sums must be inclusive of all expenses & disbursements and be valid for the next six months plus the programmed period of the commission.
ix) You must provide the calculation of the total of the lump sum prices.
x) You must provide staff rates you would charge for changes to the Scope of the contract, to assist in the calculation of the value of compensation events. The rates must be valid for the next six months plus the programmed period of the commission.
TENDER PROCEDURE
Place the total of your lump sum prices into ‘Envelope A’ and the remaining information, containing no more than ten pages of text, into ‘Envelope B’. Seal both envelopes and place them into ‘Envelope C’. Seal ‘Envelope C’ and return it to the Agency’s Secretary, at the Welsh Development Agency address on it, by 12 noon on Wednesday, 18th December 2002.
N.B. No marks, including mail franking or other delivery system marks, which could identify the sender must be visible on that envelope (C) or anything that contains it.
TENDER ASSESSMENT
1. Tenders will be assessed on the basis of both quality and price.The contract will be awarded to the tenderer submitting the most economically advantageous offer assessed on the basis of quality, and price proposals for the entire scheme.The first assessment will be for quality.
2. All tenders that comply with the quality requirements will be financially assessed.An appraisal of the rates and percentages submitted will be undertaken.Any anomalies in the submitted rates or percentages will be drawn to the attention of the financial panel, which may ask the tenderers to explain any such anomalies.
3. The final assessment of the tenders will be based on an aggregated score for quality and price requirements as detailed below.The ratio of quality to price will be 80:20.
4. WAG reserves the right not to award the contract to the tenderer with the highest score if the panel concludes this will put the WAG at undue financial, operational or legal risk.
Table 1 Tender Score Criteria
Criteria
Marks
A
Very high standard with detailed understanding of the project aims and no reservations about acceptability
10
B
High standard but falls just short of A
9-8
C
Good standard and requirements met, but with some reservations
7-5
D
Acceptable with significant reservations but not sufficient to warrant rejection
4-1
E
Fails to meet requirements
0
Peter Cotton
Senior Engineering Manager
Department for Enterprise, Innovation and Networks/Yr Adran Menter, Arloesi a Rhwydweithiau
Welsh Assembly Goverment/Llywodraeth Cynulliad Cymru
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Paul Murphy new Secretary of State foisted on Wales. Looking at his record there doesn't seem to be much hope of his support to stop the St Athan Project!
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He certainly wouldn't want himself or his colleagues to lose their jobs in the commons gravy train!
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Plaid Cymru leader Ieuan Wyn Jones (2001):
Paul Murphy is clearly out of touch with the growing feeling in Wales, and within his own party in the National Assembly. Those of us who have to work within the current settlement see its obvious flaws and a growing number of Labour AMs are coming out to support a law-making Parliament, because they are frustrated at the Assembly's failure to deliver in key policy areas. Paul Murphy and the 'dinosaur tendency' in the Labour Party are being left behind in this debate.
Plaid Cymru leader Ieuan Wyn Jones (2008):
I welcome Paul Murphy's appointment and look forward to working with him. His role will be pivotal in steering the Welsh Assembly Government's bids for the right to legislate through Westminster and in working with us to deliver the One Wales programme of Government.
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Contact Paul with your views.
Constituency
73 Upper Trosnant Street
Pontypool Torfaen NP4 8AU phone 01495 750078
Westminster
Rt Hon Paul Murphy MP House of Commons London SW1A 0AA email hunta@parliament.uk
Disclosure log 1678 13/06/08 A request has been made for information relating to the Metrix consortium DefenceTrainingAcademy at St Athan
Disclosure log 1637 10/03/08 A request has been recieved for information relating to the Welsh Assembly Government’s involvement with the DefenceTrainingAcademy project at St Athan
Disclosure log 1396 11/07/07 A member of the has requested information relating to the CardiffAirport link road
Disclosure log 893 03/09/06 A member of the public has requested information regarding further planned investment at the RAF St Athan site
Disclosure log - 516 16/01/06 A member of the public has requested information and correspondence regarding the make up of Team Wales and the names of those present at the launch of the Metrix bid that took place in London on the 20th of March ’06.
