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Temple Meads Northern Entrance and Southern Gateway – RIBA Stages 2 and 3
Decision Maker: Executive Director: Growth and Regeneration
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Purpose:
In April 2022 £94.7m of external
Brownfield Investment Land (BIL) grant funding was awarded for
projects in the first phase of the Temple Quarter regeneration
programme. The business case and funding bid was submitted by WECA
to Homes England, on behalf of Bristol City Council and Network
Rail, and the grant will be administered by Homes England. In
relation to this grant funding, in October 2022 Cabinet authorised
the Executive Director of Growth and Regeneration to 'agree the
terms of offer letters with WECA and thereafter draw down funding
to prepare Delivery Plans for the relevant Infrastructure Items for
which the Council is to be responsible (including procuring and
awarding contracts in excess of £0.5m)'.
The Northern Entrance and Southern Gateway projects are
'Infrastructure Items' included within the grant funding bid, and
work is required to develop designs for these projects up to RIBA
Stage 3; this will form a key input for the Delivery Plan for these
projects. This Officer Executive Decision enables the Council to
enter into contract with the Strategic Partner for design work
relating to RIBA Stages 2 and 3 for these projects. The TQ
Directors Board, at its meetings on 9 and 23 November 2022, and the
parties in subsequent discussion, have, in order to maintain
progress with these two projects, (and albeit in advance of the
formal Offer Letter from WECA) approved these proposals and
confirmed the principle that the funding for the contract will be
met from the BIL. Commissioning these services does not commit the
Council to assuming responsibility for implementation of either
project.
The contract will deliver the outputs set out in the Royal
Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Plan of Work for Stages 2
and 3. Stage 2 focuses on developing design options for the
projects and testing feasibility, and Stage 3 focuses on
progressing designs for a selected preferred option, spatial
coordination of design disciplines, and developing documentation to
support a planning application and/or any other consents required
at this stage.
Decision:
To enter a contract with the Council’s
Capital Strategic Partner, Arcadis in partnership with Mott
Macdonald and ARUP for professional services related to design of
the Northern Entrance and new Southern Gateway at Bristol Temple
Meads Station for RIBA Stages 2 and 3.
Alternative options considered:
Option 1 - Comparison has been done against
similar professional services contracts and frameworks. The
Strategic Partner offers best value for money under the
competitively procured Partnership arrangement and fees are within
the project budget.
Option 2 -
Option 3 -
Publication date: 08/02/2023
Date of decision: 08/02/2023