Business and Activity Planning Consultancy for Hull: Yorkshire's Maritime City (HYMC)

Tender description

The Council has been successful with a Heritage Lottery bid for the Hull Yorkshire Maritime City project. Funding is approved in two phases, a development grant which is due for submission on 30 May 2019 and if successful, a delivery grant commencing from circa June 2019 over five years, three of which will be the capital delivery phase. The scale of the whole project is circa £27.4m of which the HLF will fund up to £15m. Hull City Council are now seeking suppliers that can provide a full range of advisory, business planning and activity planning, including catering and retail consultancy services around the renovation of the Grade II* listed Maritime Museum, the historic dry Docks at “North End Shipyard” including a new visitor orientation centre, and two historic ships (The Arctic Corsair and the Spurn Lightship), and the wayfinding landscaping (including Queens Gardens and associated highways alterations and crossings). Work will be in conjunction with Hull Culture & Leisure staff, in particular the Curator of Maritime & Social History and the Exhibition and Interpretation Design Team as well as other project consultancies. The Multi-Disciplinary Team (“MDT”) will co-ordinate the designs and design programmes of these separate consultancies, which will be reflected in the NEC3 Professional Services Contract. Services will include:- HLF Activity Planning Business Planning Catering and Retail Strategy Planning Consultation and Community Engagement Round 2 Bid Management The team should be led by a suitably qualified and experienced HLF Activity Planner with experience of projects at this scale. The team can be from a single organisation or a consortium. Keywords: Business Planning, Activity Planning, Community Engagement, Catering, Retail Strategy, Consultancy