Architectural Competition - Commercial Quarter, Island Site, Dover Place, Ashford

Tender description

Contract No. DP/18/1 The Council is looking for an architect to design an innovative, place-shaping, low cost town centre food hub and start-up office space in two existing buildings on a town centre site in Ashford, Kent. The two-stage contest invites expressions of interest from insightful and creative teams who can demonstrate experience of having worked with local authorities to deliver urban interim regeneration schemes of the scale described above. Following Stage 1, up to three teams will be shortlisted for the design contract and provided with a brief in response to which they will be given six weeks to deliver a scheme design together with costs estimate for assessment by panel interview. Documents attached: - Information Pack - Suitability Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) Expression of Interest (EOI) In order to be considered please register your interest on the Kent Business Portal and return your Expression of Interest electronically to procurement@ashford.gov.uk no later than 14:30hrs Friday 19th January 2018 Notes: 1) Please register your interest through the Kent Business Portal - we will use these registration details to inform you of any amendments, or items of clarification during the quotation period. However, no further clarification, etc. will be issued later than the 17:00hrs on Friday 12th January 2018 2) If you have any items of clarification during the quotation period, these should be uploaded to the Kent Business Portal and a response will be provided. 3) Please be aware that you need submit your Expression of Interest (EOI) and Suitability Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) by e:mail to procurement@ashford.gov.uk by the due date. Your registration of interest will NOT be used to issue you with quotation documentation. 4) When submitting your EOI, please keep additional marketing material to a minimum. 5) Please adhere to any page limit specified, and restrict the size of any uploaded document to less than 20Mb 6) The "Last date for Expressing Interest" detailed at the beginning of this notice, is the last date for submitting your EOI. 7) The Start/End dates in this advert are indicative, and will be agreed with the Project Manager, but it is envisaged that works will commence in the month specified. Further Information If you have any queries please submit them through the Kent Business Portal Keywords: Local Authority, Architectural Competition, Commercial Quarter