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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Southend-on-Sea Borough Council

Forum 2 - Design Services

Engineering & ArchitectureCPV 71000000 71200000
Value£1.1m
Awarded26 Apr 2018
Published19 Dec 2018
RegionEast of England
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£1.1mtotal contract value
median £95k
this tender£0£2.0m

This is a large award for Engineering & Architecture — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 33,646 valued Engineering & Architecture tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Southend-on-Sea Borough Council (the 'Client') is seeking to bring together an experienced and appropriately qualified Architect-led design team with outstanding design and detailing skills to take forward the development of a new building to house additional gallery space and accommodation for the Focal Point Gallery, located in the Forum, together with a new small digital workspace incubator hub and office accommodation.

The College wishes to provide new state of the art performing arts and music practice facilities together with a new public cafe and restaurant, and a new skills kitchen for students.

The Client now wishes to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced Architect-led design team to take forward the scheme from RIBA Stage 2 (Concept Design) through to RIBA Stage 7.

The deadline for accessing the SQ Documents is: Noon Tuesday 17.4.2018.

The deadline for receipt of clarification requests relating to the SQ Documents Noon Wednesday 18.4.2018.

The deadline for submission of completed SQ Responses is: 14:00 Friday 27.4.2018.

The Minimum Level Requirements are covered in detail in the Documents provided.

This includes but is not limited to detail on Financial Standing and Insurance.

The elements which are pass / fail are fully explained within the documentation provided as part of the procurement.

The procurement documents can be found on Southend-on-Sea Borough Council's e-tendering portal ProContract https://procurement.southend.gov.uk/?ReadForm&login

Requirements

What the notice asks for

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The College wishes to provide new state

The College wishes to provide new state of the art performing arts and music practice facilities together with a new public cafe and restaurant, and a new skills kitchen for students.

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What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Audited accounts / financial standingFinancial standing & cover
This includes but is not limited to detail on Financial Standing and Insurance.

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Stage
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