PROVISION OF OCEAN LEARNING HUB DESIGN TEAM

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SAMS require to procure a Design team to fully design and specify the new Ocean Learning Hub at SAMS. This is a combination of refurbishment and repurposing of the existing OEB building and provision of an extension, alterations to OEC area and associated external groundworks. Lot 1: Funded through the Argyll & Bute Rural Growth Deal and supported further by charitable donations, the Scottish Association for Marine Science seeks to appoint a full inter-disciplinary Design Team to create all necessary plans, specifications, cost estimation, CDM 2015 duties and building contracts to bring our vision for an Ocean Learning Hub through RIBA stages 1-4 with Key Milestones for Design Completion by Friday 19 March 2027 and main contractor onboarded by 25 May 2027. On project final construction approval, the supplier will continue to lead the project through RIBA stages 5 and 6 handover to SAMS by the end of February 2028. The contractor is to design, specify, plan and cost control the expansion of SAMS’ Ocean Explorer Centre, an exhibition space about the marine environment, to include learning spaces. The Ocean Learning Hub will provide different spaces where people of all ages (but with a focus on schools) can learn about the marine environment through playing, imagining, exploring, making, experimenting, debating, performing, exhibiting as well as through watching films and presentations. Flexibility of the spaces is essential given fast changing education and technology requirements and opportunities. The hub’s style will fit with the existing exhibition facility.. This project is funded through the Argyll & Bute Rural Growth Deal and supported further by charitable donations.