The Authority is seeking to appoint a contractor to design and construct the works under a contract based on the JCT 2011 Design and Build Contract.

The development comprises an underground car park accommodating 47 car park spaces, cycle storage and plant rooms. At ground and 1st floors there will be 11 retail units and a 6 screen cinema together with an entrance lobby for the residential accommodation. The residential accommodation will comprise 153 apartments constructed form 2nd to 12th floors. External works will comprise paving and planting together with green roofs and a residents roof garden at 2nd floor level.

The Authority is seeking to appoint a contractor to design and construct the works under a contract based on the JCT 2011 Design and Build Contract. The form of contract will be amended to suit the particular requirements of the Authority, the Landlord of the residential units and the Tenants of the commercial units.

Procurement will be via a 2 stage process. Tenderers who are selected following this pre-qualification process will be required to submit particulars of their required overheads and profit together with their logistics and site management proposals and costs. In addition tenderers will be required to provide a quantified and fully priced cost plan for the design and build project and provide details of their proposed sub-contract supply chain. Selection at that stage will be based on most economically advantageous offer.

The project comprises an underground car park accommodating 47 car spaces, cycle storage and plant rooms. The ground floor provides 11 retail, food and beverage uses which connect into the High Street and Marketfield Way. A cinema entrance is provided on the prominent corner of the Galleria and Marketfield Way. The exact size and positioning of the A1/A3/ D2 uses is yet to be finalised following negotiations with potential tenants. The residential part of the scheme is accessed from the prominent south east corner. Here a dedicated reception space welcomes residents before they travel to the lift core and on to their apartments. A covered loading bay is provided for residential deliveries and removals. Servicing is provided to the south of the scheme off Marketfield Road and to the north off Marketfield Way. The 1st floor plan provides a continuation of some of the ground floor retail and food units. A cinema is also provided at this level and inhabitats the volume facing Marketfield Way. The residential accommodation starts at 1st floor in the south east corner of the scheme. This provides overlooking onto the street next to the residential entrance. The 2nd floor is solely residential in use. Residents will arrive to the level in the eastern lift core. If they live in the west building they will walk either across the landscaped courtyard to the west core, or if it is raining they can walk around the cloister inspired corridor which bounds the south of the courtyard. Next to the courtyard in the east building is a communal room for residents. A secondary fire escape route is provided to the far north and leads down into the northern service area. 5 wheelchair accessible apartments are provided on this level along the south elevation. At 5th floor the link building between the west and east building steps away to allow light into the communal courtyard. At the 6th floor the west building sets back at the most northern end giving the apartments here full length balconies. At 7th floor level the west building steps back further again. The west building terminates at the 8th floor. At the 10th and 11th floors the east building steps back so that there are only 3 apartments per floor. The building then terminates.