Official UK procurement notice
Birmingham Museum Feasibility Study Masterplanner
Authority: Birmingham Museums Trust
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis is a rare and exciting opportunity to explore, interrogate, and respond to the vision, ethos, and overall approach for a unique and innovative new museum for Birmingham that is being developed by Birmingham Museums Trust, supported by Birmingham City Council and Science Museum Group.
A Masterplanner is required as part of a wider team to deliver a feasibility study that researches and develops the site options, function, and business model for the development of a new museum for Birmingham, as a potential partnership between Birmingham City Council (BCC), Birmingham Museums Trust (BMT) and the Science Museum Group (SMG).
A "launch" event will be held on 24th August 2021 at 12:30pm via Zoom where we will give a briefing on the project and provide space for Q&A. If you wish to attend, please register your interest at [email protected]. If you wish to receive the recording after the event, please likewise email the same address.
CPV: Advisory architectural services · Architectural design services · Architectural, engineering and planning services · Feasibility study, advisory service, analysis · Museum services · Museum-exhibition services · Urban planning and landscape architectural services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Overall Feasibility Study DeliverablesPublished value£70,000
Overall Feasibility Study Deliverables
The feasibility study will:
- Articulate the vision and audience manifesto for a museum that seeks to address a new model in mass participation.
- Set out the objectives, function and purpose of the museum and other manifestation of audience-centered engagement with science and industry and wider subjects (see Vision).
- Develop a clear brief of requirements for the new museum and its development, that is audience centered.
- Establish the business case and governance framework in which to develop, deliver, and operate the new offer, helping BMT, SMG, and BCC explore potential partnership models.
- Identify and test locations for new physical space(s) and preferred option(s), considering both new build and the repurposing of an existing site.
- Develop indicative costs and programme for delivery (inc. operational model and costs) for the new museum.
- Provide a package of information, including visuals, to enable advocacy of the project with stakeholders and potential funders.
- Provide the necessary information to determine a way forward, identifying the next steps to enable the development to progress.
This procurement process is for the role of the Masterplanner to deliver the above. It will be specifically responsible for deliverables 3, 5, and 7, with input and feeding into the other deliverables, responsible to others.
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- Suitability
As per procurement documentation
- Technical & professional ability
As per the procurement documentation.
- Staff
- Names and qualifications of delivery staff must be submitted
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 13 Aug 2021, 12:25 BST
- Last source update
- 13 Aug 2021, 12:25 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 13 Sept 2021 – …
- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-019730- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
- Performance terms
As per the procurement documentation.
Publisher note: Please note that this is a below threshold procurement exercise that we have elected to advertise via Find A Tender to ensure as wide a reach as possible. As such, the standard time periods do not apply, but we will adhere to the overall principles as best practice. (MT Ref:223663)
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 13 Sept 2021, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
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- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 13 Sept 2021, 12:00 BST
Timeline
13 Aug 2021 → 15 Oct 2021 · 5 dates- Notice published13 Aug 2021, 12:25 BST
- Submission deadline13 Sept 2021, 12:00 BST
- Bids opened13 Sept 2021, 12:00 BST
- Contract starts27 Sept 2021, 00:00 BST
- Bids must remain valid until15 Oct 2021, 23:59 BST
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Public Procurement Review ServiceReview body
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria