Re-Imagining Tate Liverpool

Tender description

Through a restricted procedure (pursuant to Regulation 28 of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 (PCRs15)), Tate is looking to appoint a contractor role to deliver the Re-Imagining Tate Liverpool project. Re-Imagining Tate Liverpool is a major remodelling of the Grade I listed Tate Liverpool at the Royal Albert Dock, Tate are looking to appoint a contractor to undertake the services/works to help deliver the project. Following the conclusion of the procurement process the successful Tenderer shall be appointed via a Pre-Construction Services Agreement (PCSA) as set out in the Procurement Documents. The design and price will develop concurrently during the delivery of the PCSA services and will conclude with the finalisation and agreement of a JCT Standard Building Contract 2016 without Quantities with Contractor’s Designed Portion. Lot 1: The “Re-Imagining Tate Liverpool” project involves a major remodelling of the Grade I listed Tate Liverpool at the Royal Albert Dock. The PCSA will require the contractor to develop parts of the RIBA stage 3 design prepared by Tate’s design team and other services including:- • collaboration with the design team during Stage 4 design; • identify suitable subcontractors/suppliers to be appointed to assist the contractor to deliver the project; • undertake enabling works packages and/or surveys before commencement of the main contract; • lead/assist with construction methodology and programming; and • assist with discharge of pre-commencement conditions and responsibilities The PCSA scope of services will require the contractor to develop parts of the design prepared by Tate’s design team and other services as set out in the PCSA scope issued as part of the SQ Procurement Documents. Tate may instruct the successful Tenderer to undertake some enabling works on site during the PCSA period. Further detail will be provided with the ITT. The PCSA Scope as issued with the SQ Procurement Documents, is an indicative scope of the final services required, further PCSA scope details will be issued at Invitation to Tender stage of the procurement process. The design and price will develop concurrently during the delivery of the PCSA services and will conclude with the finalisation and agreement of a JCT Standard Building Contract 2016 without Quantities with Contractor’s Designed Portion with amendments as set out in the Procurement Documents. Works: Re-Imagining Tate Liverpool is a major remodelling of the Grade I listed Tate Liverpool at the Royal Albert Dock, to improve the gallery's visibility and presence on the dock and its presence as a leading international cultural institution. The brief is to ‘reimagine the gallery spaces to meet the scale and ambition of today’s most exciting artists, while creating social spaces that better connect with the city and its communities, creating an environment that is flexible and inviting and able to host people, art and ideas in equal part.’ Tate Liverpool is to be reconfigured, to create a variety of intimate and expansive interconnected gallery spaces that respond to how artists are making works and embrace opportunities beyond the gallery walls for performance, film and moving image, sound and digital works. Works will include significant reconfiguration, access and alterations throughout the galleries including breakout of floors, new lifts and stairs, replacement mechanical, electrical and plumbing installations office, café / restaurant and fit out works and façade replacement. The above scope of works and services is a broad categorisation rather than exhaustive. Tenderers should assume that the works and services actually required will broadly be within the scope listed above but will also include extensions to related or ancillary works and services. The actual scope of works and services required may also be narrower than that set out above. The procurement is intended to cover the scope of the arrangement as set out in this notice and the accompanying Procurement Documents. Please also note that the estimated contract value is based on the value of the works. The final value of the works and services will depend on the scope of the final services required and Tenderers should presume that this value will cover the works and services listed and those ancillary to the principal works and services required on a project of a comparable scale (including any extensions of scope set out in this notice). To help to ensure that sufficient interest in the contract will be generated, the services being procured will not be divided into separate lots. Duration in months: 20 (PCSA 3 months, construction period 17 months)