Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children has started the search for a team to deliver phase four of its redevelopment master plan.
Although the famous hospital is yet to complete the second phase of its redevelopment scheme, it has already started planning the £190 million phase four.
In the EU Official Journal, the hospital trust has published a contract notice for a multidisciplinary design team with prime contractor for the fourth phase of its campus redevelopment programme. This will be a new circa 23 000 m2 building “to present a less institutional facade to visitors”.
The contract notice states: “The Trust wishes to appoint a multi-disciplinary design team with prime contractor familiar with working on complex projects with complicated institutions and other key stakeholders, and which assembles a multi-disciplinary team capable of generating an outstanding vision for the phase four redevelopment and seeing that vision through to construction and completion on site.”
Due to the legal and technical complexity of the scheme, the trust will use the competitive dialogue procedure.
Any submissions of interest or requests to participate must be in by October 7, 2016.
Phase 2B, the Premier Inn Clinical Building within the Mittal Children’s Medical Centre, is set to be completed by Skanska next year.
Phase 3 will also be constructed by the same contractor; the £65m Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children, which is set to be finished in 2018. It is anticipated that the fourth phase of the scheme will be finished in 2022. The procurement documents for Phase 4 are available at: https://ribacompetitions.wufoo.eu/forms/gosh-phase-4.
Meanwhile, former Skanska boss and veteran of the construction industry, David Blackburn, has been appointed managing director of Momentum Infrastructure, a joint venture comprising Dragados, Galliford Try and Hochtief.
Momentum Infrastructure was created last year to bid for the HS2 rail project, which will run between London, the Midlands, Manchester and Yorkshire.
