Located at the intersection of the east-west and north-south axes of Chengdu City, the Tianfu Cultural Park covers the Shaocheng and Huangchengba areas, stretching from Donghuamen Street in the east to Xijiao River in the west, and from Junping Street-Xiyu Street-Dongyu Street in the south to Dongmen Street-Yangshi Street-Xiyulong Street in the north. This area is the birthplace and historical and cultural origin of Chengdu's 2,300-year history of urban construction. As a driving project to change the urban pattern of downtown area and reshape the urban form, the Tianfu Cultural Park focuses on optimizing and enhancing the cultural inheritance and innovation function, so as to build into a centralized demonstration place of the world famous cultural city, a key carrier of the Western financial center, and the cultural center of Chengdu’s thousand-year historical iteration.
As an essential part of the Tianfu Cultural Park, the Luomashi Financial and High-end Business Agglomeration Area is one of two core agglomeration areas of Chengdu’s financial industry. The Project is located within the Luomashi Financial and High-end Business Agglomeration Area. To comprehensively implement CPC Chengdu Committee’s and Chengdu Municipal People's Government’s work deployment of accelerating the construction of “three optimizations and enhancements” key areas, contribute to the construction of the national Western financial center, promote organic urban renewal, focus on building a commercial and business core area that gathers important urban public services functions, and create a significant place for high-end financial service industry and international cultural exchanges, this international solicitation of architectural concept schemes is hereby launched, aiming at gathering global intelligence, improving the design schemes with high starting point, high standards and high-level, enhancing the overall quality and orientation of the Project.
Host
Chengdu Xingyuhe Urban Renewal and Construction Development Co., Ltd
Acquisition of solicitation materials
Interested applicants should send the application form for acquisition of solicitation documents to the designated email: competition@ehow.net.cn. The planning service agency will reply and send the Design Brief and related design materials within one working day after receiving and reviewing the application form.
Download link to the application form for acquisition of solicitation documents:
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Solicitation contact
Planning service unit: Shenzhen Ehow R&D Center
Contact person: Ms. Peng
Contact phone number: +86 13641432974 (Monday to Friday 9:00-18:00 Beijing time)
E-mail: competition@ehow.net.cn
Project information
4.1 Project name
International Solicitation of Architectural Concept Schemes for the Xiyu River 66-mu Project of Tianfu Cultural Park Business District (Tentative)
4.2 Project overview
4.2.1 Project location
Located next to Luomashi metro station, Qingyang District, Chengdu City, the site abuts Xihuamen Road to the west, Xiyuhe Street to the south, Yangshi Street (the city’s main trunk road) to the north, and Middle Renmin Road (the city’s central axis) to the east.
The plot is situated on the west side of a high-end commercial and residential block under planning (pending final government approval document) with a sound business atmosphere and living environment in the future; to its south lies the planned Tianfu Cultural Park under construction, which boasts stunning scenery resources and shapes excellent demonstration southward; it abuts the Chengdu Third People's Hospital to the north; on its east side are high-intensity development commercial land to be planned (with a plot ratio of around 10.5, pending final government approval document), and the Luomashi station (a four-line transfer station) currently under construction, offering developed and convenient public transportation.
4.2.2 Planning indicators
4.2.3 Solicitation contents
（1）Concept scheme design: The content of this solicitation is the architectural concept scheme design of the Xiyu River 66-mu project of Tianfu Cultural Park Business District, including the architectural concept scheme design of this plot (such as concept design of landscape scheme, interior concept design of public areas, and concept design of floodlighting), the relocation of the Feng’s Courtyard (6,000-square-meter open space) and the open space of the folk house at 62, Xiyuhe Street (an open space with a land area of no less than 2,512 square meters is set on the southwest side).
（2） Scheme design: 1) The architecture specialty reaches the preliminary design depth; 2) structural and electromechanical specialties reach the scheme design depth; 3) the curtain wall specialty needs to complete the facade scheme development, providing large-scale drawings for key façade nodes and conduct feasibility studies. During the engineering stage, it assists the owner to strictly monitor the curtain wall material selection, sample setting, and construction process; 4) concept design optimization of landscape scheme, interior of public areas, and floodlighting.
（3） Cooperate with the Host to conduct the scheme submission and application for construction through the domestic design institute selected, review the content of the design scheme effect in the work of various specialized consultant teams, and control the content related to the scheme effect on the construction site.
Requirements for application
5.1 The solicitation will adopt “open application” without qualification restrictions. Units with relevant design experience from home and abroad may apply for participation. Application units should be independent legal person enterprises or institutions legally registered at home and abroad with valid business licenses or business application certificates.
5.2 Achievement requirements: with at least one of the following similar achievements in the past 10 years (since January 1, 2013):
1) With design experience in complexes with a total construction area exceeding 200,000 square meters in the urban core areas;
2) With design experience in super high-rise buildings, which has the height of over 150 meters;
3) With design experience in commercial buildings with a building area exceeding 50,000 square meters;
4) Having design experience in comprehensive traffic hub station-city integration;
The above-mentioned achievements include completed or ongoing projects.
5.3 Consortiums with no more than three members are allowed to apply. All consortium parties must not participate in the solicitation event in their own names separately or form a consortium with other units.
5.4 The solicitation event does not accept application of individuals and individual groups.
5.5 The person in charge of the unit is the same person or a different unit with shareholding or management relationship must not apply at the same time.
Application Method
6.1 The application period of this solicitation is from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Beijing time, the same below), 14/4/2023 to 28/4/2023.
6.2. Applicants should send the electronic version of their application materials to the designated email (email address) before the application deadline, and at the same time, mail or deliver the hard copies of their application materials (as well as two USB drives) to the following address: Cost Management Center, 4th Floor, Office Building 999 Jincheng Avenue, High-tech Zone, Chengdu City, Recipient: Ms. Feng, Tel: 028-85171233.
6.3 For requirements on the submission of application materials, please refer to the Working Rules of the International Solicitation of Architectural Concept Schemes for the Xiyu River 66-mu Project of Tianfu Cultural Park Business District (Tentative).
6.4 The application units need to log in to the website: http://hi07552w.mikecrm.com/a7qqb3y or scan the QR code before 17:00 on April 28, 2023, log in and register the application information, and fill in the application information accurately (the content must be consistent with the submitted application documents).
☆ The submission deadline, if adjusted, is subject to the latest announcement. The application documents are subject to the hardcopy documents eventually received. Application documents received after the deadline will not be accepted.
Solicitation Description
7.1 The international solicitation is divided into three phases: Stage I: Selection stage, Stage II: Concept scheme design stage, Stage III: Determination of the selected unit.
7.1.1 Stage I - Selection stage
The Host sets up a selection review jury in accordance with the law. The selection review jury will conduct a comprehensive review on the application documents, select five shortlisted application units to enter Stage II: Concept scheme design and review stage. At the same time, two alternative application units will be selected (ranked), and the alternative application units will substitute in sequence in case the shortlisted application units withdraw.
7.1.2 Stage II: Concept scheme design and review stage
The Host will organize five shortlisted units to have on-site visit and answer questions. Shortlisted units should submit qualified deliverables according to the Design Brief. Each unit is only allowed to submit one design scheme. The scheme review jury will review the deliverables submitted at Stage II. The top three application units without ranking selected via open voting (round-by-round elimination) will enter "Stage III: Determination of the selected unit”.
7.1.3 Stage III-Determination of the selected unit
On the basis of the Host’s and the competent government departments’ full respect of the review opinions of experts, in accordance with the business negotiation results and in combination with the cost, duration, technology and other factors, the Host will finally determine the selected unit according to the approval procedure.
7.2 The three price winners of the Project will each receive a prize of RMB 3.5 million (tax included); the finalists who submit qualified deliverables but fail to acquire the winning prize will each receive a design compensation fee of RMB 2.5 million (tax included); the finalists whose submitted deliverables are disqualified will not receive any compensation.
One selected institution, in addition to the winning prize, will receive subsequent plan design fee. The control price for the Project’s scheme design fees is RMB 86.5 million (tax included).
7.3 Right of interpretation: The final interpretation right of this solicitation event and related documents belongs to the Host.
7.4 Chinese version of the documents released by the Host shall prevail. The correspondence and documents between the application unit and the Host and the planning service units should be written in Chinese. The application documents submitted by the application unit should be in Chinese, if another language version is provided, its Chinese translation must be attached; all design deliverables submitted by the shortlisted application unit should be in Chinese and English. In case of any inconsistency between Chinese and English (another foreign language), the Chinese version shall prevail.
7.5 Solicitation agenda (tentative)
☆All time is subject to Beijing time. The Host reserve the right to adjust the agenda. In case of an agenda adjustment, the Host will notify shortlisted application units by e-mail.
Media Releasing Announcement on Solicitation
The solicitation announcement will be released on the following websites. Modifications and supplements to this announcement is subject to the contents made public on the following websites/WeChat official accounts:
Announcement websites
中国招标投标公共服务平台（www.cebpubservice.com）
China Tendering and Bidding Public Service Platform
(http://www.cebpubservice.com)
WeChat official accounts
一和研发、建日筑闻、ABBS建筑招标智库