International Consultation for the Conceptual Planning and Urban Design of Guangfo Bay

   I. Project Descriptionroject name：

International Consultation for the Conceptual Planning and Urban Design of Guangfo Bay   2.Organization

Organizer: Liwan District Branch of Guangzhou Municipal Planning and Natural Resources Bureau、Nanhai Branch of Foshan Natural Resources Bureau

Organization Agency: Guangzhou Wangtat Project Management & Consultancy Group Co., Ltd.   3.Project background

In May 2019, the municipalities of Guangzhou and Foshan signed the "Memorandum on Co-construction of Guangzhou-Foshan High-quality Integrated Development Pilot Zone" to jointly build a "1+4" high-quality integrated development pilot zone. In September 2020, Guangzhou Liwan District and Foshan Nanhai District jointly held a seminar on "Guangfo New City • Technology Innovation and Intelligence Valley-Guangfo Integration Demonstration Zone Planning" and signed a memorandum of cooperation to propose a “1+4” high-quality integrated development pilot zone, actively cooperate for deep collaborations, delimit 70 square kilometers in the border area to jointly build Guangfo New City, and explore the fully comprehensive cooperation in the aspects of ecology, industry, transportation, and services. to build a collaborative pattern of " Collaborative, Constructive, Collegial, and Sharing ".

In order to effectively promote the high-quality integration development of Guangzhou-Foshan from "Municipal Co-construction" to "District-level Co-fusion", and make Liwan Nanhai transform from "cross-border" to "unbounded", the two district governments jointly select Guangfo Bay area to organize the “International Consultation for the Conceptual Planning and Urban Design of Guangfo Bay” to create a benchmark for Guangfo New City with high positioning, high quality and high standards.

Guangfo Bay is located at the junction of Guangzhou Liwan and Foshan Nanhai. It is bounded by Guangfo River, Liwan Hailongwei on the south and Nanhai Dali on the north. It has historically served as a bridge between Guangzhou and Foshan. The non-governmental exchanges are very close. Under the background of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau Greater Bay Area and construction of Guangfo city, the area is expected to move from the “edge of the two cities” to “core of the same city” and become a demonstration area of harmonious integration of “industry, city, landscape, human and culture”, and fully realize the regional potential value, and then promote the coordinated development of the two districts.

1. Main design tasks (the final requirements are subject to the officially released " Design specification " after the pre-qualification)

（1）Design scope and main work content in the consultation stage

The international consultation design of this project includes two parts:

1. Conceptual planning and Overall urban design: Planning scope involves Liwan Hailong, Nanhai Yanbu and other areas, Include but not limited to the following scope: Foshan First Ring Expressway, Nanguang-Guiguang Railway, Suiyan Road, Huadi River, Longxi Avenue, West Ring Expressway, Haizhong Road, Qingfeng Road, the total site area is about 23km², including about 11km² in the Liwan District, and 12km² in the Nanhai District. (refer to the Schematic Diagram of Planning Scope in Figure 1 for details)

The work scope of the conceptual planning and overall urban design includes but not limited to the followings: Starting from the regional level, exploring local characteristics, strengthening regional connections, research on the target vision, functional positioning, industry selection, spatial structure, land layout, transportation system, supporting facilities, landscape pattern, characteristic construction and urban renewal aspects of the Guangfo Bay area. Propose conceptual planning scheme and develop overall urban design.

1. The urban design scope of key areas: Select no less than three key nodes in the key area (every key node needs to cover the important industrial development platform of the two areas and the suitable region for the joint establishment of the two areas, the range of urban design for every key node should be no less than 2km²) to conduct urban design. The range of key areas includes but not limited to the followings: Foshan First Ring Expressway in the west, Huadihe in the east, Xihuan Expressway, Yanxiu Road and Suiyan Road in the north, the Baoshixi Road and Longxi Avenue in the south, with a total land area of 13km², of which Liwan District is about 7km² and Nanhai District is about 6km². (refer to the Schematic Diagram of Planning Scope in Figure 1 for details)

Work content of urban design scope for Key areas includes but not limited to: The In-depth investigation on the current status of key nodes, and detailed urban design on their functional locations, spatial forms, public spaces, traffic organization and landscape nodes to form suggestions for urban control and implementation.

Figure 1Schematic Diagram of Planning Scope

（2）Requirements for deepening design development after consultation

On the basis of the planning and design deliverables of the consultation stage, absorb the advantages of other shortlisted design units, and modify and improve the scheme based on expert evaluation opinions, the opinions of the organizer and related departments, etc., and at the same time, amend the scheme after evaluation, and cooperate with the organizer for project report, public participation, publicity and other related work, provide relevant design materials and technical support. The depth of all design drawings must meet the relevant requirements of China, Guangdong Province，Guangzhou and Foshan Municipality. Specifically include the following two tasks:

1. Adjustment and design development for Guangfo Bay conceptual planning scheme, to finally achieve the depth of the conceptual planning requirements and the overall urban design requirement at the level of zoning plan;

2. Improving and deepening the urban design of key areas, to finally achieve the regulative detailed planning depth requirements（Including urban design guidelines）.

II, Consultation rules

The international consultation work is divided into two stages: the first stage is pre-qualification; the second stage is scheme design.

1. The first stage —— pre-qualification

（1）The open consultation mode is adopted for this international consultation, which the consultation openly accept applications from domestic and International design units (including consortium, the same below) that meet the qualification requirements for participation.

（2）The qualification evaluation committee evaluates the pre-qualification application documents submitted by the applicants. Five shortlisted design units will be selected by registered voting to shortlist for the second stage which is the scheme design stage.

（3）The five shortlisted design units will receive shortlisting invitation letters from the organizer.

1. The second stage——scheme design

（1）The five shortlisted design units shall carry out design work in accordance with the requirements of the “International Consultation Technical Documents” subsequently issued and submit the formal design deliverable on time. Each unit shall submit only one design scheme. The design scheme submitted by a design unit other than the shortlisted units will not be accepted.

（2）The evaluation committee will evaluate all the submitted design schemes and select two or three schemes as the excellent schemes of this consultation by means of registered voting. (The scheme evaluation committee will determine the number of excellent schemes according to the quality of the design schemes).

（3）The organizer will comprehensively evaluate the excellent schemes based on the expert review comments, opinions of relevant functional departments, and the comprehensive strength of the excellent scheme design units, then report to the two district governments to evaluate the excellent schemes and determine one of the excellent schemes as the deepening scheme, this unit will be the unit to further deepen the design (deepening unit). The deepening unit will complete the subsequent design development. If it’s difficult for the excellent schemes to achieve the purpose of this international consultation, the deepening scheme can be vacant.

If the deepening unit fails to fulfill the contract or gives up, the security deposit will not be returned. The organizer may, in accordance with the provisions of the Technical Document of the Consultation, the comments of experts and relevant functional departments, re-select one of the excellent schemes as the deepening scheme, or the deepening scheme is vacant.

III, Requirements of participation qualification

（1）There must be a legally registered and valid business license or business certificate; design units registered in China must have independent legal persona. Design units that have the following relationships may not participate at the same time:  The legal representatives of two or more legal persons are of the same person; ‚ The parent company, wholly owned subsidiary and its holding company.

（2）Design units of mainland Chinese must have Grade A or above qualification for urban and rural planning and have urban design experience for similar projects.

 (Note: Due to the reform of national institutions, the former issuer of Urban-Rural Development Planning Qualification, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the People’s Republic of China, is no longer accepting the renewal and application of planning qualifications. The original planning qualifications can be used as reference, and the validity period is not mandatory.)

（3）Design units from foreign countries, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions must be fairly well-known in the world and have similar project design experiences.

（4）This consultation accepts participation in form of consortium, with no more than 2 members. All the members of the consortium must meet the above requirements. The consortium agreement must be jointly signed by all members of the consortium, and a main member is determined in the agreement. The consortium must submit a consortium agreement, and the main member of the consortium should be defined in the agreement. After the members of the consortium have signed the Consortium Agreement, they can no longer participate in its own name, nor can they form a new consortium or participate in other consortium, otherwise their qualifications of participation will be invalid.

IV, Consultation schedule

1. Mar.25th-Apr.8th, 2021: Announcement will be issued to accept the design unit to submit prequalification application documents.

2. Apr.16th, 2021: Evaluate the pre-qualification application documents and confirm the shortlisted units.

3. Apr.21st- Jul.19th, 2021: Shortlisted design units start to work on scheme designing, and the consultation design cycle is about 90 calendar days.

4. The press conference and site surveying are scheduled on Apr.27th, 2021.

5. The interim report meeting is scheduled for Jun.2nd, 2021.

6. The expert evaluation meeting is scheduled on Jul.21st, 2021.

7. The consultation organizer reserves the right to adjust the consultation schedule. As affected by the Covid-19 epidemic, the organizer may duly adjust the dates and the ways to the specific meeting time as may be necessary, at that time, the notice issued by the organizer shall prevail.

V. Consultation fee

1. Consultation fee

（1）      Cost compensation fee

If the scheme is evaluated as effective, each shortlisted unit will receive a cost compensation fee of RMB One million (RMB, including tax, the same below) paid by the organizer.

Note: Shortlisted design units whose design schemes were evaluated as invalid by the scheme evaluation committee will not be eligible for the compensation for consultation cost.

（2）      The excellence bonus

The excellent schemes units who are not selected as the deepening unit will receive an additional bonus of RMB 800,000 paid by the organizer.

（3）Deepening design fee

The shortlisted design unit whose scheme is selected as the deepening unit will receive an additional fee of RMB Three million paid by the organizer. (Fixed price, included fees for the deepening design work from deepening units included)

VI, Announcement media

1. Media for the Announcement of the International Consultation

1. Website of China joint bidding and procurement（http://www.365trade.com.cn/）

2. WANG TAT Competition Information Platform（www.wt-competition.com）

3. archrace（www.archrace.com）

Note: The attachment of the announcement can be downloaded from the above No. (1)-(2) websites. In case of any discrepancy between the announcement information published on the relevant websites, the information published on the "WANG TAT Competition Information" shall prevail.

1. Media for the announcement of prequalification results

1. WANG TAT Competition Information Platform（www.wt-competition.com）

VII. Contact Information

Organizer: Liwan District Branch of Guangzhou Municipal Planning and Natural Resources Bureau、Nanhai Branch of Foshan Natural Resources Bureau

Contact person: Zhang gong （020-81032116） (for Technical consultation only)

Contact person: Deng gong （0757-86293551） (for Technical consultation only)

 

Organization Agency: Guangzhou Wangtat Project Management & Consultancy Group Co., Ltd.

Contact person: 020-87562291 transfer to: Lin Gong (8536， 13432822695)(Consultation on Consultation Matters)

Address: (Guangdong Province) 5th Floor, Wangtat Construction & Investment Building, No.7 Kehui Valley, Second Street, 99 Science Avenue, Guangzhou Science City, Guangzhou

Postcode：510663

e-mail：[email protected]

Fax：020-87562532

 

Appendix

1. Schematic Diagram of Planning Scope

2. Prequalification documents

3. Format file

4. Synopsis of Design Specifications

Note: For the relevant information above, please refer to Appendix Ⅱ Prequalification documents and Appendix Ⅳ Synopsis of Design Specifications for details, The detailed description in Appendix Ⅱ and Appendix Ⅳ shall prevail; In case of any discrepancy between the Synopsis of Design Specifications in Appendix Ⅳ and the officially released "Design specification " after the pre-qualification, the latter shall prevail.