Development consultancy services

Tender description

Limerick City and County Council's (LCCC) key objective is to provide a comprehensive assessment of economic viability from a market perspective for the LCCC administrative area to inform the delivery of mixed-tenure/mixed-use on Council-owned lands. The Planning Policy Statement (DECLG, 2015) and Rebuilding Ireland (DHPCLG, 2016) indicates that planning must proactively drive and support sustainable development, integrating consideration of its economic, social and environmental aspects at the earliest stage to deliver development in an economically viable manner that will sustain recovery and future prosperity. LCCC wish to commission consultants to undertake economic viability assessments on a number of Council-owned sites. Refer to documents uploaded to www.etenders.gov.ie for further details. Limerick City and County Council's (LCCC) key objective is to provide a comprehensive assessment of economic viability from a market perspective for the LCCC administrative area to inform the delivery of mixed-tenure/mixed-use on Council-owned lands. The Planning Policy Statement (DECLG, 2015) and Rebuilding Ireland (DHPCLG, 2016) indicates that planning must proactively drive and support sustainable development, integrating consideration of its economic, social and environmental aspects at the earliest stage to deliver development in an economically viable manner that will sustain recovery and future prosperity. LCCC wish to commission consultants to undertake economic viability assessments on a number of Council-owned sites. LCCC seeks to create a framework panel of consultants for a maximum four (4) year period to provide expert independent economic viability advice on viability appraisals including residential and non-residential proposals and related viability matters. The selected framework participants will work primarily with LCCC's Social Development Directorate and may be tasked to other directorates within the Council in addition to wholly owned companies of LCCC including Limerick 2030 Strategic Development DAC and Innovate Limerick on an ad hoc basis in response to anticipated or actual development briefs or masterplans being progressed for mixed-tenure/mixed-use and mixed-use. This is Stage 1 of a 2 stage process. Refer to the documents attached for further information.