CONTRACT NOTICE – NATIONAL

1 Authority Details

1.1

Authority Name and Address

1.2

Address from which documentation may be obtained

1.3

Completed documents must be returned to:

2 Contract Details

2.1

Title

Conservation Architect - Tywi Gateway Project

2.2

Description of the goods or services required

Requirement

Tenders are now sought from a conservation architect to work in close cooperation with other project consultants.

Capabilities

• Experience of working in mixed discipline teams including works on sensitive heritage sites with archaeological, landscape and building conservation issues

• Experience of major Heritage Lottery-funded and Cadw listed building restoration projects for information and certification

• Experience of survey and analysis of complex masonry structures

• Experience of developing garden visitor facilities to Heritage Lottery Fund and other current standards

• Familiarity with the technical and conservation issues at Abergwili including viable visitor facilities, access and external structural masonry.

• Familiarity with costing of masonry repair and general works

NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Sell2Wales Web Site at http://www.sell2wales.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=33019.

The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the Postbox facility. A user guide is available at http://www.sell2wales.gov.uk/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx.

Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems.

2.3

Notice Coding and Classification

2.4

Total quantity or scope of tender

Scope of Work

• Liaise with statutory authorities and secure necessary planning, listed building, and other consents. Preparation of Conservation Statements as required

• Survey, record and analysis of dairy and associated outbuildings, ha-ha, lodge, walled garden and attached bothy/potting shed.

• Develop the design of the building works set out in the Conservation Management Plan including, to RIBA Stage 3, or beyond, where necessary to secure consents:

i. recreate the bridge or causeway across the Bishop’s Pond

ii. repair and restore the bothy/potting shed as a gardeners mess

iii. fully restore the lodge for a microbusiness

iv. conserve and stabilise the walled garden wall, and ha-ha

v. conserve the dairy and associated outbuildings and conversion to visitor cafe, toilets, training, office, interpretation and museum storage facilities

• Provide CDM Coordinator Services

• Provide costings sufficient to support a HLF Round 2 Application

Note: Carmarthenshire County Council have drawn up plans for the conversion of the dairy and associated buildings for a visitor facility and obtained planning permission (lapsed). These plans will be made available to tenderers.

3 Conditions for Participation

3.1

Minimum standards and qualification required

4 Administrative Information

4.1

Type of Procedure

Single stage

4.2

Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

N/a

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Time Limits

4.5

Language or languages in which tenders or requests to participate can be drawn up

4.6

Tender Submission Postbox

5 Other Information

5.1

Additional Information

Background

Bishop’s Park at Abergwili is of special importance to the cultural, historic and natural heritage of Wales. The Welsh Historic Gardens Trust, working with Carmarthenshire County Council, has been awarded a development grant by the Heritage Lottery Fund ‘Parks for People’ programme and our aim is to create the Tywi Gateway there, an all-year destination with restored and reinvigorated pleasure grounds, walled kitchen garden, a flood-plain meadow and ox-bow lake.

The Trust has employed consultants to prepare the conservation management plan and supporting documentation in accordance with RIBA Stage 3 to support a Round 2 application in July 2016.

Tender Evaluation

Tenders will be evaluated using the following criteria and weightings:

• Cost 30%

• Relevant expertise of key members 15%

• Relevant prior experience 15%

• Assessment of ability to deliver on time, within budget 20%

• Quality of submission 20%

Documentation

One hard copy of each report is required, bound and printed, together with a PDF version: drawings likewise, together with the AutoCAD file.

(WA Ref:33019)

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Additional Documentation

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Publication date of this notice