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Cumbria County Council

Town Deals - Carlisle Library - Digital Community Learning Hub

Engineering & ArchitectureCPV 71000000
Value£170k
Awarded5 Jan 2022
Published26 Apr 2022
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

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Contract value in context
£170ktotal contract value
median £95k
this tender£0£2.0m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Engineering & Architecture band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 33,646 valued Engineering & Architecture tenders in our corpus.

The brief

This is an exciting opportunity to entirely redesign the councils 'customer experience' in an established city centre location offering a quality 'one stop' shop for customers.

The new digital community learning hub will be a space where customers and visitors can experience a wide-ranging offer including: • A library service fit for the 21st Century • A modern learning environment where people can experience educational classes, educational drop-ins, pop up learning experiences and get the support they need to support them in every aspect of their life and in their work • A hub for Cultural activities • A place of historic learning - home to an established and popular local studies collection • A place for 'immersive' experiences and events - such as 'dark skies nights', storytelling experiences • A safe, inclusive and welcoming place to go for all - regardless of ethnicity, age, ability, gender, religion and diversity The existing space is used by the Carlisle Library - the largest library in Cumbria - located in The Lanes Shopping Centre.

The space is significant in size at 2,500 m2 and the library is the busiest in the county in terms of footfall.

The Council is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified Architect / Interior Designer to design and manage the transformation of Carlisle Library into a Digital Community Hub.

The proposed building works may include the stripping out of the existing partitions, fixtures and fittings, mechanical and electrical plant, etc., installation of new partitions, mechanical and electrical plant, ICT infrastructure and redecoration throughout to transform the building into a Digital Community Hub.

The works must be constructed to ensure compliance with the latest version of the Building Regulations, together with all necessary planning permissions.

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Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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A modern learning environment where people can

A modern learning environment where people can experience educational classes, educational drop-ins, pop up learning experiences and get the support they need to support them in every aspect of their life and in their work.

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The works must be constructed to ensure

The works must be constructed to ensure compliance with the latest version of the Building Regulations, together with all necessary planning permissions.

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Suppliers wishing to express an interest

Suppliers wishing to express an interest and obtain access to the tender documents should go to www.the-chest.org.uk and click on current opportunities from the navigation area on the left of the screen.

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To express an interest you will need

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OCID
336331d1-48bc-4753-bd90-f304f3c159c1
Stage
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Buyer ref
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