Dundonald International Ice Bowl (DIIB) is owned and operated by Castlereagh Borough Council (the Council). The facility has been a popular attraction for over 27 years, attracting approximately 600,000 visitors per year. Facilities at DIIB currently include the only public Olympic size ice rink in Northern Ireland, a tenpin bowling alley and Indiana Land jungle gym. There is also a climbing centre tenant and airsoft laser tenant within the facility.

The Council plans to construct a new standalone leisure facility adjacent to the existing facility at the DIIB site. A full planning application has been submitted for a circa 17,000 sqm leisure complex at DIIB. The new facilities will include the following, together (the New Facilities):

(a) 60x30m ice rink suitable for ice hockey, figure and leisure skating;

(b) 24 lane tenpin bowling centre;

(c) Fitness gym;

(d) Fitness studio;

(e) Multi-purpose function rooms/studio/party rooms;

(f) Restaurant (short order type);

(g) Café/Social hub space;

(h) Climbing centre combining artificial climbing walls and climbing centre;

(i) Health and well-being centre;

(j) 12 court sports hall; and

(k) Kids soft play zone.

The works will include extensive site works, car-parking, landscaping and the demolition of the existing centre at DIIB.

The purpose of this procurement exercise is to identify a contractor with whom the Council will enter into a contract to provide the New Facilities (the Main Contract). The Main Contract will take the form of an NEC3 Engineering and Construction Contract (Option A: Priced contract with activity schedule) with Targeted Contractor Design Responsibility.

The Council, via a separate procurement process, is in the process of appointing a specialist ice contractor to provide specialist consultancy support on the integration of the ice rink into the New Facilities and thereafter to supply and install the Olympic size ice rink (the Ice Contract). The Council will also separately procure and appoint a specialist bowling contractor to deliver and install the 24 lane tenpin bowling centre (the Bowling Contract).

Applicants should note that it is currently envisaged that once the Main Contract for the New Facilities has been awarded, the Ice Contract and the Bowling Contract will be novated from the Council to the contractor appointed to carry out the Main Contract (the Successful Tenderer). The Successful Tenderer will take responsibility for the management and delivery of all aspects of the New Facilities, including those elements to be delivered under the Ice Contract and the Bowling Contract. Full disclosure of the terms of the appointment of the Ice Contractor and the Bowling Contractor will be available to Tenderers during the tender period.

As the development of the New Facilities is nearing completion, the Successful Tenderer will be required to afford access to various tenants of the New Facilities to fit out, for example, the climbing centre and the café.

The existing complex at DIIB will remain operational throughout the duration of the development of the New Facilities.