The “Neighbourhood City” concept is defined in the Regional Sustainable Development Plan. It highlights the importance of accessibility to cultural and sporting infrastructures with a local, regional and international impact, which make a major contribution to regional quality of life. The Region’s ambition is to come up with a spatial distribution that guarantees every inhabitant easy access to services and amenities wherever they live.
This ambition is shared by Perspective, which is seeking to achieve the vision through this contract in particular. The aim of this contract is to define the principles, procedures, strategies and tools for the development of the Neighbourhood City, in accordance with the Regional Sustainable Development Plan (RSDP).
This contract is divided into a definite part and a conditional part.
The purpose of the definite part of this contract is to:
- carry out a benchmark / comparative study of the different approaches to the Neighbourhood City, with particular focus on amenities.
- define the general principles for local urban development
- draw up and illustrate recommendations on general and specific strategies for city planning and neighbourhood amenities
The conditional part of the contract entails project-based research illustrating the recommendations for the Neighbourhood City, revolving around three local core identities.
SKILLS
- urban planning – programming
- architecture
- sociology – anthropology or other human sciences with qualitative research skills
AWARD CRITERIA
- Methodology – 50%
- Quality of the team – 40%
- Financial realism – 10%
INDICATIVE TIMETABLE:
- Invitation to submit a tender : 14.07.2023
- Information session: 18.07.2023 at 2 pm
- Submission of tenders: 29.08.2023 at 2 pm
- Presentation of tenders to the jury: 07.09.2023
- Award of contract and start of the mission: 27.09.2023
- Estimated duration: 10 months
BUDGET
The budget for the study is € 70,000 excluding VAT for the firm phase and € 20,000 excluding VAT for the conditional phase.
GRANT
For this mission, a grant of € 1.500 will be awarded to each team invited to tender that submits a regular bid but is not finally selected.
If you are interested, we invite you to send an e-mail, before 07.07.2023 at 2 PM, to bouwmeester maître architecte at appel-oproep@bma.brussels, showing your interest, motivation and experience, and giving your contact details and/or those of the planned team (on a maximum of one attached A4 sheet).