UK Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka - Design, Build, Maintain & Decommission (DBMD)

Tender description

The United Kingdom (UK) is participating in Expo 2025, which runs from 13 April 2025 - 13 October 2025 and will take place in Osaka, Japan. The overarching theme of Expo 2025 is "Designing Future Society for Our Lives". Expo will welcome visitors from all over the world, allowing countries to build extraordinary pavilions and transform the host city for years to come. The UK Pavilion will be delivered with the theme of "See Things Differently - Tomorrow, Today". His Majestys Government (HMG) will be seeking a supplier that can Design, Build, Maintain, and Decommission (DBMD) the UK Pavilion (UKP) at Expo 2025 Osaka ("Expo") - referred to as "DBMD" throughout this notice. The DBMD supplier will bear the responsibility for the end-to-end delivery of the physical UKP, taking it through the various architectural design stages, construction phases, fit-out, maintenance and repairs during the Expo-live period, and then finally decommissioning. It is for the bidding supplier to determine its preferred organisational structure for delivery of the UKP, ensuring it aligns with the regulatory requirements for construction in Japan and Expo guidelines. However, the bidding supplier will be expected to act as an integrator for the supply chain and the main interface with HMG. The services that may be required for delivery of this DBMD contract could include (but are not limited to): Architectural services (including licensed Japanese Architect of Record); licensed Japanese General Construction Services; Prefabrication/Modular Build Services, Fit-Out Services; and any other services required to design, construct, maintain, repair (if required), and decommission the UKP. For clarity, the DBMD delivery model does not include requirements for full operational services (such as staffing, events, hospitality etc) during the Expo. Ahead of the publication of the Tender for the DBMD Contract, HMG would like to conduct supplier market engagement. All interested suppliers, including members of the supply chain are invited to participate. HMG will showcase the current design ideas and provide an overview of the procurement approach so that suppliers can (a) prepare in advance of this tender, and (b) ask questions and give feedback on deliverability of the early design ideas and procurement approach. If you are interested in participating in this market engagement then please register your interest to gain access to a pre-recorded webinar, available from week ending 19th May 2023, by emailing: MajorWorldEventsCommercial@trade.gov.uk NOTE: Information shared by DBT during this engagement is confidential. Therefore, in order to access it you will be required to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) before access is granted. This is mandatory, there are no exceptions and no negotiations on the terms of the NDA. Full details of the project and this engagement can be found in the attachment to this notice