Invitation to apply for admission to a design competition and procurement process

Sol Plaatje University invites architectural practices to apply to participate in a two-stage architectural design competition, endorsed by the South African Institute of Architects (SAIA), linked to a procurement process, the purpose of which is to identify:

• an architectural practice to design the proposed first building on the North Campus; and
• two talented architectural practices to enter into a framework agreement over a three-year term to provide architectural services within university campuses without a commitment to the quantum of work.

Applicants who complete an application form confirming their acceptance of the conditions for a design competition and undertake to submit a tender offer should they be invited to do so following the evaluation of expressions of interest will be admitted to the design competition and interlinked procurement process. Such applicants will be permitted to download an Expression of Interest which will contain the Stage 1 Competition Data and ideas brief and be allocated a unique competition number.

Expressions of Interest will be evaluated on a point scoring system in terms of which points for a practice’s B-BBEE status will be added to points awarded  competition ideas submissions. The 7 highest scoring practices will be invited to participate in the architectural design competition and to submit tender offers. The jury will award honorariums in Stage 2 of the design competition of R 50 000 and rank the submissions which receive an honorarium. Tenders will close after the Stage 2 design competition submissions have been received. Tenders will be evaluated based on their financial offer adjusted for a preference and quality. The score for quality will be based solely on the ranking of the competition jury.

Mark Schaerer is the Competition Administrator.

Application documentation may be downloaded from the tender link on www.spu.ac.za  from 10:00 on Thursday, 6 May 2021. Applications on the application form shall be uploaded on the Online Tender Box which may be accessed using the same tender link on www.spu.ac.za for downloading of the application documents.

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The closing time for receipt of applications submissions is 12:00 hrs on Thursday, 20 May 2021. No late applications will be considered.

Applicants are advised to whitelist the following email address in their email client to ensure that their invitations are not blocked as spam: admin@sabeexdms.com