Museum-exhibition services

Tender description

Mace have been appointed as Technical Project Manager in the delivery of a new Main Line Museum for Great Central Railway. As part of our appointment, we are coordinating and managing, on behalf of Great Central Railway, the procurement of a project team. The Great Central Railway (GCR) plc has received a First Round Pass from the Heritage Lottery Fund with a total allocation of 10 000 000 GBP to create a new national heritage railway museum in Leicester. Working in partnership with Leicester City Council (LCC) and the National Railway Museum (NRM) the museum will house locomotives, carriages, items and artefacts from the national collection and will be located on the site of the GCR's Leicester North terminal station situated at The Sidings, Off Redhill Way, Leicester LE4 3BR. The GCR is seeking to appoint a qualified Exhibition Design team with experience in Museum development, ideally across multi-million pound projects. Previous experience in managing a HLF funded project through its various stages would be an advantage. The Exhibition Designers will work closely with the current project team, in particular liaising with the Technical Project Manager, Programme Manager, Content Development Consultant and Head Curator to ensure that the exhibition design work and the various work streams feed into both the exhibition and building design work. This tender will be let in two parts, 1. Development Stage services and 2.Delivery Stage services. The Delivery Stage Services will be required if the project is successful in securing funding from the HLF from its Round 2 application. In the event the bid fails to attract funding on satisfactory terms from HLF then there will be no further requirement for consultant services and the appointment under this agreement will be determined. The total Development Stage costs are 1 097 338 GBP GCR has been granted £494.500 from the HLF and has matched this with 323 000 GBP from its own funds. The remaining 279 888 GBP consists of in-kind/non-cash contributions and volunteer time. The total cost of the Delivery Stage is 16 680 859 GBP The HLF has earmarked 9 504 900 GBP leaving 5 370 084 GBP cash match funding to be secured and a further 1 805 875 GBP in non-cash/in-kind and volunteer time contribution. The total project cost is circa 17 800 000 GBP