Llanelly House Restoration & Regeneration: Exhibition Design Interpretation Services

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The Carmarthenshire Heritage Regeneration TrustContextCarmarthenshire Heritage Regeneration Trust (CHRT) has acquired Llanelly House and is the lead body for its restoration and interpretation. The trust was formed to deliver the key objectives:•To preserve the environmental heritage that exists in and around Carmarthenshire, which include:oBuildings of historical or architectural interestoSites, areas and environments of historical or natural beautyLlanelly House The Llanelly House Project is a multi-million pound project to restore the Grade 1 listed Georgian Town House to its 18th century glory and into a major new community facility. Primarily funded by:•Heritage Lottery Fund•WEFO•CadwWith secondary funding from:•Llanelli Town Council•Carmarthenshire County Council•Architectural Heritage FundFinancial Support from:•Finance WalesThe restoration of Llanelly House is currently being undertaken around a high quality programme of conservation and restoration that will draw from, interpret for and enrich the communities of Llanelli through restoring the House to its place in Llanelli’s heritage.The core objectives of the Llanelly House project have been set to ensure Llanelly House provides a high quality visitor experience:•To sympathetically conserve, restore and interpret the building in its entirety to its original Georgian Grade 1 status (early 18th – early 19th century)•Bring the building into full community, heritage and economic use •To provide high quality learning opportunities for schools and other educational groups•Create a facility which the entire community can utilise •“Access for All”• To engage the community in the projects development•Give the building focus and function that is understood and utilised by the community locally and nationally•To make the building financially sustainable through a carefully considered after-use programme that breathes and flexes with the community’s needs•The building instills and promotes local and national prideCHRT is currently undertaking a £5.4m capital project known as Llanelly House. We are procuring the services of an experienced Interpretation Consultancy, who will be required to work with relevant internal and external personnel at CHRT to develop the interpretation for the fabrication construction phase of the project.The goal of this tender is to appoint an experienced Interpretation Design Company for the Llanelly House Restoration & Regeneration Project due to be completed by the last quarter of 2012. The organisation should have the relevant experience of working and collaborating on multi-disciplinary heritage and museum projects within Grade 1 & 2 listed buildings and well adept at integrating cutting edge heritage/museum interpretation within visitor attractions within the last 3 years. The estimated value of the total Interpretation from development, design, fabrication and installation is estimated to be in the region of £550,000 approx with secure funding and rising in budget, dependant on external funding and sponsorship.The restoration is set at between 3.75million – 4.1million and is already underway.Target Competition Dates:These are indicative dates only and subject to change:• PQQ Notice & Response 01-17June 2011• Assessment & shortlist: 6 Tenderers 20-24June 2011 • Invitation to tender 24June 2011• Tender period 24 June - 22 July 2011• Assessment and Evaluation: 6 tenderers 25 -27 JulY 2011• Interview: 6 tenderers 28 July2011• Decision to Award Notice/Stand Still Alcatel Rule 29 July - 07 Aug2011• Contract Award 08 Aug2011Form of Tender The tender will take the form of a restricted tender procedure. 4-6 tenderers will be selected from this PQQ to tender, which will be assessed and the tenderers will invited to interview.Scoring / Assessment CriteriaThe following assessment criteria will be used to select the short list for interview.1.Ability to meet essential financial and business standards for the commission (30%). Used principally to assess section 1 and 2.2.Overall experience Demonstration of understanding of the skills required to approach the commission (60%). Used principally to assess section 3.3.References (10%). Used principally to assess section 4.