Museum services

Tender description

Wrexham County Borough Council (WCBC) is seeking to employ a museum designer to lead a design team to redevelop the existing Wrexham Museum to incorporate a football museum for Wales. In addition to the museum designer the design team will consist of an architect and quantity surveyor. The museum designer will be responsible for bringing on board a suitable architect with WCBC appointing a quantity surveyor to the design team at a later date. Please note that WCBC is not seeking to employ an architect separate to this tender exercise. The project will follow the traditional RIBA lifecycle with the design team required to produce plans and designs for Wrexham Museum that incorporates a new football museum for Wales. The contract will be for two phases of work — the Development Phase and Delivery Phase. The Development Phase will run from RIBA 1 up to and including RIBA 3 with the Delivery Phase taking the project from RIBA 4 to RIBA stage 7. Wrexham County Borough Council is seeking to appoint a museum designer as part of a design team for the redevelopment of Wrexham Museum to incorporate a football museum for Wales. The museum designer will lead the design phase and be responsible for bringing on board a suitable architect to meet the needs of this project. The design team (museum designer, architect and quantity surveyor) will be responsible for creating an interpretive plan and design proposals for the museum redevelopment. The museum designer and architect should have significant experience of working with 'nationally styled' museums; sporting heritage museums and listed buildings. The contract is for two phases of work — the development phase and delivery phase. The development phase will run from RIBA 1 up to and including RIBA 3 with the delivery phase taking the project from RIBA 4 to RIBA stage 7. The project will progress onto the delivery phase if successful in securing funding from grant applications and project partners. If unsuccessful the contract will terminate upon completion of the development phase (at the end of RIBA 3), circa November 2021. A full breakdown of requirements is available within the Invitation To Tender documents available through the eTenderWales tendering portal.