In recent years, the enterprises in the area of aerospace science and technology have gradually been set up, grown and thrived in Shenzhen. Shenzhen enterprises, as well as the citizens, have paid more and more attention on the space science and technology. Under this background, Bao’an District Committee and Government have planned to take the project construction of the Asia-Pacific high throughput broadband satellite communication system as an opportunity, to build up a Space Science and Technology Theme Park, and to promote the science popularization and education of space technology and science.

In order to promote the planning and construction of the Space Science and Technology Theme Park, the International Consultation on Master planning and Conceptual Planning of the Space Science and Technology Theme Park will be organized by the People's Government of Bao'an District, Shenzhen and jointly undertaken by the Science and Technology Innovation Bureau of Bao’an District, Shenzhen, and Bao’an Administration of the Urban Planning, Land and Resources Commission of Shenzhen Municipality.

Due to the schedule being tight and task being urgent, we hereby pre-announce relevant information as follows for convenience of those design firms who are interested in participating in this International Consultation:

1. Working Goal

The International Consultation is to attract global high-level planning and design teams into this project. It’s hoped that each team can determine the positioning, development trend, strategic goals, and specific items for the Space Science and Technology Theme Park through planning and research, and draw up a rational layout through professional planning and design, to draft it a beautiful blueprint, based on the development status, trend of space science and technology, the resources of Luotian Forest Park and the demand of science popularization and education of space technology and science.

2. Planning and Design Scope

The International Consultation is bounded by Guangdong Luotian Forest Park. It is within Luotian Forest Farm, north of Songgang Street District, Bao’an District, Shenzhen, and located in the border of Shenzhen and Dongguan, with an overall area of 460.73hm². The forest park is divided into two areas, among which, the southeast area is adjacent to Zhangmutou Forest Farm of Dongguang, Gongming Street District of Shenzhen, Luotian Reservoir of Songgang Street Distrcit and Luotian Residential Committee, with an area of 407.7hm², while the northwest area is adjacent to Dalingshan of Changan Town, Dongguan, Luotian Reservoir, Yanchuan Village and Longhua-Dalingshan Highway of Songgang Street District, Shenzhen, with an area of 53.03hm².

3. Consultant Content

The consultant content will include the master planning and conceptual planning.

4.Working Stages & Schedule

The International Consultation will be divided into three stages, namely “Registration & Qualification + Official Consultation + Integration of Deliverables”.

4.1 Stage 1: Registration & Qualification (November, 2016)

This stage will be applied for its organization with open registration and preferential selection. After the registration, the Organizer will invite experts to constitute the Jury Panel that will carry out review on the application documents (including project experiences and team composition and etc.) submitted by design firms. Then four design firms will be shortlisted and issued with the Invitation to Formulate the Design Scheme.

4.2 Stage 2: Official Consultation (December, 2016 - Mid-January, 2017)

The shortlisted design firms will start formulating the masterplan and conceptual plan. The Jury Panel will evaluate those submitted design deliverables and select two winning schemes, and the District Government will set up a bidding committee to decide the first-prize winner from these two schemes.

4.3 Stage 3: Integration and Deepening (About 1 Mouth)

According to the experts’ advice and the working requirements of Bao’an District Committee and Government, the first-prize winner shall carry out integration and deepening on those 4 masterplans and conceptual plans to form the final scheme; meanwhile, he shall be in charge of organizing a workshop and the public display of the final planning scheme.

5.Registration Requirements

The International Consultation will focus on introducing design firms and professional teams with experience in planning and design of science theme parks. All the design firms with related experiences can register. It’s warmly welcomed that those international and local design firms from areas of urban planning, event planning, landscape and municipal engineering, etc., work as a consortium to participate in. But personal registration isn’t accepted in this International Consultation.

The design firms who are interested in participating in this International Consultation shall submit the application documents to apply for it by the registration deadline set in its official registration announcement. The application documents will mainly include:

Qualification documents, including company profile, business licenses, and qualification papers, etc;

Portfolio about similar planning and design projects, include project introduction, project status, project photos and other documents;

Information about the project team, including the name list of project team members, CVs of the team members, and portfolio about similar projects presided by the chief designer, etc.

6.Fees and Task Requirements

The specific content, related design fees and other items of the International Consultation are subject to the official announcement, working rules and design brief issued later. By the time, the Organizer will issue the official announcement of this International Consultation on the official websites of Bao’an District Government, the Urban Planning, Land and Resources Commission of Shenzhen Municipality and Shenzhen Urban Design Center and etc.

For the tight project schedule, the design firms, who are interested in participating in this project, please prepare in advance and send the company profile and contact means to pre-register by luotian@benecus.com as soon as possible. The specific conditions of this project are subject to the official announcement.

Enquiry: Mr. Zhang  +86 136 3160 0111

Email: luotian@benecus.com

The Science and Technology Innovation Bureau of Bao’an District, Shenzhen

November 10th, 2016