Appointment of a Lead Design Consultant for the Design of a Leisure Facility at Hartlepool Waterfront

Hartlepool Borough Council is seeking an organisation to provide lead designer consultancy services for the full design and delivery of a new leisure facility with swimming pools.

The lead designer will be expected to provide the full range of building services. including, but not limited to the following: • Lead consultant for the building element including the role of Principal Designer • Architectural design • Structural engineering for the pool and building • Civil engineering (for building drainage, etc.) • Mechanical and electrical engineers • Specialist swimming pool related consultants • Access Consultant • Acoustician • Fire Safety Consultant The external works elements will be undertaken in-house by HBC (landscape architecture and civil engineering).

This commission will include an initial design up to and including RIBA 4, with a break clause in place should the project not proceed.

Assuming the scheme progresses the consultancy team will then be required to supervise the pre-construction, construction and handover processes incorporating RIBA 5 to 6 (inclusive).

This tender will be a 2 Stage Process under the Public Contract Regulation 2015 Restricted Procedure.

Full details of the tender process and evaluation are provided in the tender documents.

Interested Organisation wishing to register an interest and download the tender documents, should apply via the ProContract e-tendering portal https://procontract.due-north.com All completed documentation for the first stage of this tender process must be uploaded via the ProContract e-tendering portal Only and submitted no later than 14:00 hours on Friday 31st July 2020.

Late submissions will not be accepted. (Postal and e-mail submissions will also not be accepted.)