Original Tender Description
The National Gallery is seeking to appoint a Highways & Transport Consultant with the capability, capacity and relevant experience to support the delivery of a new development at the Gallery, located on Trafalgar Square in central London. The Project will involve the development of a new building integrated with the existing National Gallery estate, together with proposals affecting the public highway, movement, servicing, access, public realm and statutory highway processes within a highly constrained and sensitive urban, cultural and heritage context. The Project is expected to require coordinated highways engineering and transport planning input in relation to matters including, without limitation, highway status and boundary interfaces, servicing and operational access, parking and cycle provision, pedestrianisation or access restriction, Section 278 works, Traffic Management Orders, stopping-up processes, oversailing and undersailing licences, highway-related Section 106 obligations, and coordination with public realm and design proposals. The successful Highways & Transport Consultant will be appointed to undertake professional services across RIBA Stages 0-7, as set out in the Scope of Services included within the Form of Appointment. Candidates will be required to demonstrate experience in delivering highways engineering and transport planning services of comparable scale, complexity and sensitivity within the United Kingdom, and in particular within central London and the City of Westminster, including work in constrained urban sites, operational environments and projects involving statutory highway approvals and legal processes. The role of the Highways & Transport Consultant will include, as a minimum: • acting as Lead Highways & Transport Consultant in respect of all matters affecting land within, above, below, or operationally connected to the public highway, whether adopted or unadopted; • providing integrated highways engineering and transport planning services, ensuring alignment between operational and servicing requirements, transport and planning policy compliance, physical highways and access design, and statutory approvals and legal processes; • liaising with Westminster City Council, Transport for London and other relevant highway or transport authorities; • coordinating highways and transport inputs with the Architect, Landscape Architect, Civil and Structural Engineer, Planning Consultant, Access Consultant, Cost Consultant, MEP Engineer and the Client's legal advisers; • identifying, managing and supporting the approvals route for Section 278 works, Traffic Management Orders, stopping-up, oversailing and undersailing licences, and other relevant statutory processes; • developing, coordinating and supporting the delivery of highways and transport strategies relating to pedestrianisation, access restriction, servicing, parking, cycle provision, bay relocation, public realm interfaces and development on former highway land; • supporting the Project through planning, technical design, implementation and close-out, including ongoing technical support in relation to statutory approvals and highway delivery. It is recognised that Candidates may propose multi-disciplinary teams or collaborative arrangements. Where this is the case, the contractual relationship between organisations and the allocation of roles and responsibilities must be clearly described in the submission. The organisation with which the National Gallery will contract must be clearly identified as the Lead Supplier.