Architectural Services - Goldlay Gardens, Chelmsford, Essex.

Site – Former ECC Library Headquarters, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 0EN

Essex Housing of Essex County Council (ECC) are supporting the delivery of housing to meet demand in the County and are developing a programme of potential housing projects.

For the site above, Essex Housing are seeking to appoint suitably qualified and experienced Architects to provide architectural services covering RIBA stages 1 to 6 for a scheme comprising approximately 32 apartments for private sale housing, affordable housing and specialist housing (representing approximately 35%) together with associated external works, landscaping and car parking. The indicative contract sum for the scheme is £3m.

Please note the scheme is currently at concept design stage only and we are targeting submitting a planning application to Chelmsford City Council by no later than early Quarter Two, 2016. Applicants must contact ECC to request to be invited to this tender by following these instructions:

1. Send an email with your organisation name in the subject title field to:

email2workspace-prod+ECC+WS675990253+k6ad@ansmtp.ariba.com

2. ECC use Ariba as our e-sourcing platform. If you have more than one registered Ariba user, who you want invited to the event, please provide the name(s) of each registered user in your request, as it may not be possible to include additional users at a later stage.
3. If you are not registered on Ariba, please go to: http://ecc.supplier.ariba.com/ad/register/SSOActions?type=full and follow the instructions to register, then follow steps 1 and 2 above. (PLEASE NOTE: 35% completion (i.e. mandatory fields only: organisation/user details, commodity, sales territory) is the minimum required for your Ariba cloud registration. You do not need to reach 100% completion.)

Support in the use of Ariba is available at: http://www.essex.gov.uk/Business-Partners/Supplying-Council/Pages/default.aspx

If you have any questions regarding this opportunity, please contact:

Nigel Hopgood – Category Manager

Essex County Council – Commercial Team

Tele: 03330 136308

Email: nigel.hopgood@essex.gov.uk