Provision of Evaluation Consultancy and Toolkit, and Legacy Report relating to the Hull: Yorkshire’s Maritime City (HYMC) NLHF project

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Hull, Yorkshire’s Maritime City (HYMC) is a £30m regeneration project to reinterpret the city’s maritime past, using an extraordinary resource historic buildings, collections, ships and people to tell the story of Hull’s contribution to the past and highlight the City’s maritime future. The project is jointly funded by Hull City Council and the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The project is deliberately wide-ranging and ambitious, physically encompassing five separate sites across the historic core of the city - the Hull Maritime Museum, the Dock Office Chambers building, the historic North End Shipyard on the river Hull, and two historic vessels, (the Arctic Corsair trawler and the Spurn Lightship), and intellectually marking the next stage of Hull’s visitor destination offer, its ambitions around place-making and a new approach to service delivery. The project is midway through delivery, with several key works elements, including works to restore and refurbish the Maritime Museum and the city's two historic vessels already contracted with works commenced, but also with several key elements of the project still to be procured, including some works elements and completion (fit-out etc.) requirements. Hull City Council now wishes to appoint consultants to undertake an evaluation of the HYMC project and alongside that process develop of a set of KPIs for the project and wider museums and gallery service along with appropriate data capture methodologies and an evaluation dashboard to monitor evaluation and performance going forward beyond the end of the project. The Council is therefore now seeking to commission suitably qualified and experienced Evaluation Consultants to fulfil this role.