Ireland – Research and development services and related consultancy services – CFT for Provision of ICT services for Mid and East Antrim CounciI NI PEACEPLUS

Mid and East Antrim Borough Council will lead the delivery of a PEACEPLUS Local Community Action Plan for the Borough to promote positive relations between people from different backgrounds and communities. The PEACEPLUS Local Community Action Plan will support a number of programmes or initiatives across three key themes, Local Community Regeneration and Transformation, Thriving and Peaceful Communities and Celebrating Cultures and Diversity. The Client invites tenders to provide the service for an ICT for RIBA stages 1-6 to help deliver 12 capital projects within the Mid and East Antrim Borough Council Local Community Action Plan. The project is supported by PEACEPLUS, a programme managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB). The project is for the provision of an Integrated Consultancy Team (ICT) who must work with the Capital Works Manager, Capital Works Team or their designate to ensure all duties required under this appointment are being carried out to the satisfaction of the Employer. The project shall be responsible for the design and project management of the 12 projects as part of the Council's PeacePlus funding. The project will be from RIBA stages 1-6, including a feasibility study of the 12 projects submitted as an expression of interest to Peaceplus. These comprise 3 larger projects which have a maximum spend of £200,000 and 10 smaller projects which have a maximum spend of £30,000. The ICT is to attend each project and provide costs associated with it and comment if the works proposed in the group's expression of interest are feasible for the budgets set by SEUPB. Following a gateway approval stage from council / SEUPB the ICT will develop designs for each project, submit and achieve statutory approvals and issue tender documents for the successful projects. ICT will assume 12 projects will be successful to the construction stage.