Future High Street Project Development Manager

Tender description

North East Lincolnshire Council and Grimsby Shopping Centre Limited, the owners of Freshney Place shopping centre, submitted a bid to government for the Future High Street Fund, to promote a leisure led scheme which incorporates a new market hall to stimulate an improved and diversified shopping and leisure offer. The investment strategy is to deliver the leisure offer to the town centre with a new cinema and other leisure use, a new flagship market hall and public realm that will bring renewed vibrancy to the town centre's day and evening economy experience. Working in partnership, North East Lincolnshire Council is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified Development Manager, with the necessary experience, skills and resource to lead and manage the delivery of the scheme on a day-to-day basis, to meet the Partners vision for the Project in line with the cost requirements and timing constraints. Lot 1: North East Lincolnshire Council are seeking to appoint a Development Manager who will take on the day to day coordination and leadership of the project, managing the design team and reporting to the Partners on all substantive aspects of the project. They will take an overarching client role, undertaking project coordination on behalf of the Partners but reporting to them for instructions throughout. The Development Manager shall perform the services as would reasonably be expected to be undertaken by a Development Manager appointed in connection with projects or developments of similar scope, complexity, purpose and size as those being undertaken by the Partners Additional information: The contract does not lend itself to lotting. The contract is set to commence 1st November 2021 with the main project completion date being the end of 2025. There will be a period for the development manager to oversee defects. There is a budget cap set out in the tender documentation.