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Colchester City Council

GB-Colchester: 0424 - Architectural Design Consultants

Engineering & ArchitectureCPV 71200000 45212350 71220000
Value£364k
Awarded18 May 2025
Published20 May 2025
RegionEast of England
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£364ktotal contract value
median £95k
this tender£0£2.0m

This is a large award for Engineering & Architecture — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 33,646 valued Engineering & Architecture tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Colchester City Council (the Council) wishes to commission an experienced professionally qualified RIBA Architectural practice to be part of this upcoming iconic project and to provide Architectural Services and all other relevant disciplines up to and including a Full Planning Application Submission.

Due to the nature of the project, the practice will also require conservation accreditation with the named lead architect able to demonstrate at least 5 years of relevant experience of listed buildings.

The commission is for full service from RIBA stage 1 to RIBA Stage 6/7 and detailed design but will include a break clause at RIBA Stage 3 for submission to the National Lottery Heritage Fund, May 2026.

Completion to detailed design will be contingent on the acquisition of round two funding and the exact timescales for the necessary contract extension will be confirmed with the successful contractor.

Further details of the requirements can be found in the accompanying documents

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Colchester City Council (the Council) wishes

Colchester City Council (the Council) wishes to commission an experienced professionally qualified RIBA Architectural practice to be part of this upcoming iconic project and to provide Architectural Services and all other relevant disciplines up to and including a Full Planning Application Submission.

02

Due to the nature of the project

Due to the nature of the project, the practice will also require conservation accreditation with the named lead architect able to demonstrate at least 5 years of relevant experience of listed buildings.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

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