Hull City Council is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced museum exhibition & interpretation consultancy team to provide design services, and project management, to support the delivery of the “Maritime Project”, or Hull: Yorkshire’s Maritime City (HYMC).
Hull City Council has been successful in securing funding, including heritage lottery funding, for the development of the maritime project (Hull: Yorkshire's Maritime City), which is to include the renovation of existing buildings, including museums, places, and historic ships linked to Hull's maritime history, and the creation of new visitor centres and city centre landscaping, including queen gardens and associated highways alterations and crossings. Hull City Council is now seeking to appoint a museum exhibition & interpretation team from suppliers that can provide a full exhibition and interpretation design service, with associated mechanical & engineering, specialist quantity surveying, and NEC contract administration consultancy for the development, design, and delivery of the Exhibition and interpretation scheme.
Funding is approved in two phases, a development grant which is due for submission in May 2019, and, if the bid is successful, for the delivery of the scheme over five years, the first 3 of which will be the capital delivery phase (up to September 2022) and which is the period for which the museum exhibition & interpretation team contract would be required.
The successful supplier will undertake the services as described in the specification, and full details of which - together with supporting information Appendices - are given in the Invitation to tender documentation which is available to access via the YORtender electronic tender portal,
https://www.yortender.co.uk, contract Ref nº DN331103. Tender bids received will be assessed on the basis of best value, with relative assessment weightings given over to a split between 30 % allocated to price, and 70 % allocated to quality criteria which will be scored from tender responses to detailed quality questions detailed in Part 2 of the invitation to tender documentation.
Estimated value excluding VAT: Range: between 800 000 and 875 000 GBP