Tender for the Appointment of the Architectural Design Team for the International Slavery Museum & Maritime Museum Transformation Project

PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT THE CLOSING DATE FOR RETURN OF EXPRESSIONS OF INTERESTS CLOSED ON 7/2/2022 - 10AM.

National Museums Liverpool (whose legal name is National Museums & Galleries on Merseyside (NMGM), is inviting tenders to participate in a procurement to appoint an Architectural Design Team to transform the International Slavery Museum and the Maritime Museum.

To access the procurement documents, please visit https://in-tendhost.co.uk/nationalmuseumsliverpool to register. Once registered and logged in, tenderers will be able to participate in this opportunity, download, complete and upload their submissions to the procurement documents by the closing date and time for return of submissions.

Registration to In-Tend is free of charge for tenderers. Further details are provided in the procurement documents.

Should your organisation experience any technical difficulties with registering or using the In-Tend portal please contact In-Tend on 0845 557 8079 / 0114 407 0065 (Mondays to Fridays 8.30am to 5pm); or email [email protected].

Additional information: National Museums Liverpool (whose legal name is National Museums & Galleries on Merseyside (NMGM), is inviting tenders to participate in a procurement to appoint an Architectural Design Team to transform the International Slavery Museum and the Maritime Museum.

To access the procurement documents, please visit https://in-tendhost.co.uk/nationalmuseumsliverpool to register. Once registered and logged in, tenderers will be able to participate in this opportunity, download, complete and upload their responses to the procurement documents by the closing date and time for return of submissions.

Registration to In-Tend is free of charge for tenderers. Further details are provided in the procurement documents.

Should your organisation experience any technical difficulties with registering or using the In-Tend portal please contact In-Tend on 0845 557 8079 / 0114 407 0065 (Mondays to Fridays 8.30am to 5pm); or email [email protected].

National Museums Liverpool looks forward to your participation.

Funding Description

Currently the scope of this project is funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. In addition to this funding support, funding applications have been made to several key funders such as DCMS, Liverpool City Region and other funding trusts and foundations and philanthropic. Accordingly, elements of this project may be funded by external funders upon additional funding being secured. The total cost of the capital project, including all elements such as direct works by NML, the exhibition development, and the enabling and main build, is up to an anticipated £47m. The total value of this contract, which will form a part of this total cost and will comprise the totals fees for the Architects Design Team, is estimated at between £1.75m and £2.2m.

The Contract is anticipated be let until the end of July 2023, with potential to be extended to Autumn/Winter 2026. Please note this is subject to funding and is dependent on NML securing full grant funding for the project as detailed in Document 1.3 Architectural Design Team Scope of Services.

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No