20189 Northstowe/ Longstanton Heritage Facility

CCC wish to develop a new heritage building to house various artefacts discovered during the archaeological works as part of the upgrade and improvement works to A14 by Highways England and Northstowe mixed-use development by Homes England, and the existing RAF Oakington collection currently housed in Longstanton.

The project aims are as follows:

The proposed form of the building will be delivered utilising re-purposed shipping containers and it is to this specific segment of the market that this tender is directed at. Variants/ other options/ other forms of MMC have previously been reviewed at feasibility stage with the Shipping container option being preferred. The client partners are therefore requesting tenders from suitably qualified and experienced providers in this specific field.

This process is a 2-stage process. The first stage will be to make an appointment of a contractor/ supplier who will ultimately serve as Principal Contractor to work with the client team and their advisors to develop the proposals further completing RIBA Stage 3 and 4 under a pre-construction services agreement. The successful tenderer will supplement the client team with their own technical designers including architecture, mechanical and electrical design, structural/ civil engineering, surveying and landscape design.

The second stage will be for the successful tenderer to take the outputs of RIBA Stage 4 work and competitively tender the works through their supply chain with the purpose of presenting to the client a guaranteed maximum price for the works. Once approved, the supplier/ contractor will complete any design, procure and build the new facility.