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Hartlepool Borough Council

Appointment of a Lead Design Consultant for the Design of a Leisure Facility at Hartlepool Waterfront

Engineering & ArchitectureCPV 71000000
Value£793k
Awarded31 Jul 2020
Published18 Jan 2021
RegionNorth East
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£793ktotal 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

Hartlepool Borough Council is seeking an organisation to provide lead designer consultancy services for the full design and delivery of a new leisure facility with swimming pools.

The lead designer will be expected to provide the full range of building services. including, but not limited to the following: • Lead consultant for the building element including the role of Principal Designer • Architectural design • Structural engineering for the pool and building • Civil engineering (for building drainage, etc.) • Mechanical and electrical engineers • Specialist swimming pool related consultants • Access Consultant • Acoustician • Fire Safety Consultant The external works elements will be undertaken in-house by HBC (landscape architecture and civil engineering).

This commission will include an initial design up to and including RIBA 4, with a break clause in place should the project not proceed.

Assuming the scheme progresses the consultancy team will then be required to supervise the pre-construction, construction and handover processes incorporating RIBA 5 to 6 (inclusive).

This tender will be a 2 Stage Process under the Public Contract Regulation 2015 Restricted Procedure.

Full details of the tender process and evaluation are provided in the tender documents.

Interested Organisation wishing to register an interest and download the tender documents, should apply via the ProContract e-tendering portal https://procontract.due-north.com All completed documentation for the first stage of this tender process must be uploaded via the ProContract e-tendering portal Only and submitted no later than 14:00 hours on Friday 31st July 2020.

Late submissions will not be accepted. (Postal and e-mail submissions will also not be accepted.)

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The lead designer will be expected

The lead designer will be expected to provide the full range of building services. including, but not limited to the following:.

02

This commission will include an initial design

This commission will include an initial design up to and including RIBA 4, with a break clause in place should the project not proceed.

03

Assuming the scheme progresses the consultancy team

Assuming the scheme progresses the consultancy team will then be required to supervise the pre-construction, construction and handover processes incorporating RIBA 5 to 6 (inclusive).

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The gates

What this notice demands of you

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

Lead consultant for the building element including the role of Principal Designer

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