CONTRACT NOTICE – NATIONAL

1 Authority Details

1.1

Authority Name and Address

1.2

Address from which documentation may be obtained

As in 1.1

1.3

Completed documents must be returned to:

As in 1.1

2 Contract Details

2.1

Title

Music Room and Control Room redevelopment at Atrium, Cardiff Campus

2.2

Description of the goods or services required

The University of South Wales, Faculty of Creative Industries, is planning to redevelop our Live Recording Room (Room CAB303) and its Control room (CAB304) to create a modern flagship studio space at our Cardiff Campus.

The works will involve design and fitment to replace and upgrade of acoustic separations of the rooms to the wider building, internal separation between the two rooms and within the live room itself for the isolation of amplifiers etc.

The upgrade would keep the existing connection to our CTA to enable us to send feeds out of spaces and receive feeds in via BNC.

NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Sell2Wales Web Site at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=120852.

The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the Postbox facility. A user guide is available at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx.

Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems.

2.3

Notice Coding and Classification

2.4

Total quantity or scope of tender

Live Room:

• Building a floating floor for acoustic separation.

• Building extra inner walls for acoustic separation between live room and control room.

• The installation of acoustic doors with magnetic seals.

• Installing an engineered wooden floor

• Installing acoustic diffusion in parts of the ceiling.

• Isolation boxes/booths installed e.g., to isolate guitar amplifiers.

• Installation of a variable acoustic solution for the studio to be able to shape the acoustic response

• Replace existing stage boxes and audio lines with Dante systems into CB304 and CB302

• Run return lines and Studio playback and listen back system

• Return speaker lines for amplifier head and cabinet separation between live/control room.

• Installation of red Record Lights outside corridor.

Control room:

• The installation of a ‘live end, dead end’ layout, whereby the rear end of the room is reflective, usually with engineered wood, and the other acoustically deadened with trapping.

• The mounting of existing large studio monitor speakers in the front wall.

• Soft wall treatments being fitted throughout.

• A shaped ceiling being installed.

• Recommissioning of existing SSL Duality console and outboard equipment into control space, with appropriate patch bay and studio wiring undertaken

• Producer rack setup in middle of control room

• Installation of appropriate studio furniture

• Purchase and installation of Thunderbolt 3 chassis and HDX cards to complement existing Mac Mini and HD I/O interfaces

Both spaces would require:

• The replacement of the air conditioning system with solutions that reliable and appropriate to a studio environment.

• The installation of appropriate lighting.

• The installation/repositioning of sufficient power sockets to service the rooms flexibly

• The installation of an external access door in the corridor to make the studio self-contained.

3 Conditions for Participation

3.1

Minimum standards and qualification required

• Be capable of providing all the services required as well as installation as part of this turnkey project

• Provide case studies or narrative on projects of a similar nature that you have delivered in similar settings.

• All installation timescales must be quoted for with indicative lead times in order to meet our requirements as stipulated.**

• Specifically with regards to the evaluation criteria, we expect project relatable answers that address each of the

criteria.

• Conduct a site visit - Site Visits can be arranged by contacting Richard Summers, Senior Specialist Resource

Officer at Richard.summers@southwales.ac.uk

4 Administrative Information

4.1

Type of Procedure

Single stage

4.2

Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

1750

4.3

Time Limits

4.5

Language or languages in which tenders or requests to participate can be drawn up

4.6

Tender Submission Postbox

5 Other Information

5.1

Additional Information

Your tender submission must be uploaded to the Sell2Wales portal Postbox.

Your submission must be received by the closing time and date of midday, Friday 20th May 2022.

You should allow adequate time for the loading of your documents so as to ensure receipt as the postbox will electronically close at the deadline time and no further submissions will be accepted.

All queries in relation to the tender should be conducted via the Q&A function attached to this notice.

Site visits can be arranged by contacting Richard Summers, Specialist Resource Officer at richard.summers@southwales.ac.uk

(WA Ref:120852)

Under the terms of this contract the successful supplier(s) will be required to deliver Community Benefits in support of the authority’s economic and social objectives. Accordingly, contract performance conditions may relate in particular to social and environmental considerations. The Community Benefits included in this contract are:

See ITT for specifics

5.2

Additional Documentation

5.3

Publication date of this notice