This Solicitation includes three levels: research scope, design scope and node design scope.

Research scope: with an area of about 207 ha., including Shilaoren Bathing Beach, the original golf course and its surrounding areas;

Design scope: with an area of about 97 ha., reaching Laoshan Road in the north, Shilaoren Bathing Beach in the west, Shilaoren Seafood Street in the east, and the coastline in the south;

Node design scope: design teams shall select a key node of no less than 5 ha. to carry out detailed design. The key node shall include but not limited to corresponding environmental landscape and key architectures (with a total building area of no less than 5000m²).

The Solicitation will be open for registration by design firms or consortiums at home or abroad, but no member of the consortium is allowed to register twice for the Solicitation itself or in the name of another consortium. Personal registration is not accepted.

Two or more legal entities with the same legal representative, parent company, sole subsidiary and its holding company are not allowed to participate in the Solicitation separately.

Designers involved in the Solicitation should be the current staff of the registered design firm. The chief designer must have experience of directing a number of similar design projects, and must directly participate in the whole process of the Solicitation (basically, he/she shall attend the Q&A session, interim communication, and design review presentation in person; in case of special circumstances such as being affected by the epidemic, attendance or briefing through online video meeting is accepted). Moreover, the project team should include at least one member who is proficient in Chinese to ensure the accurate understanding of the project background and relevant requirements of the Solicitation.

The design team shall include professional staff and consultants in landscape, urban planning and architecture, etc. And priority will be given to design teams with following similar project experience in recent five years:

Landscape design experience in large-scale coastal or waterfront parks, especially the design experience of projects that are built or under construction (the project status shall be marked);

Design experience of important public architectures, especially the design experience of projects that are built or under construction (the project status shall be marked).

Design teams shall apply for this Solicitation by submitting both the commercial documents and concept proposal.

Registration

Before 15:00, December 27, 2021 (Beijing Time), the applicants shall send the electronic version of commercial documents (scanned copy of signed and sealed application form as well as its document in Word format) and consortium agreement (if having, scanned copy with signature and company seal) to the Host, and visit the website: https://jinshuju.net/f/tDugRz or scan the following QR code to fill in the registration information for online registration.

Moreover, the applicants shall deliver the complete registration documents to the Host (Both on-site submission and mailing are accepted; Add: Block A, Laoshan District Civic Culture Center, Laoshan District, Qingdao Municipality, Shandong Province, PRC; Addressee: Ms. Chen [Tel: +86 18661652798] ) before 17:00, January 6, 2022, whose cover shall be marked as 'Registration Documents of the Design Solicitation for Qingdao Shilaoren Seaside Park' and whose contents include the printed commercial documents and concept proposal as well as their electronic files (in CD or USB flash drive).

In order to highlight the open, scientific and practical nature of this project, design solicitation will be applied for its organization with three stages, namely, 'Stage of Prequalification, Stage of Design Competition, and stage of integration and detailing', which is scheduled to be completed by June, 2022.

Stage 1: Prequalification (December, 2021-January, 2022)

Release the announcement, working rules and design brief of this Solicitation, globally welcome design firms (including design consortium, similarly hereinafter) to participate, set up the prequalification committee to review the registration documents submitted (including commercial documents and concept proposal, similarly hereinafter), and select five invited design teams and two alternatives (in case any invited design team quits, they can take its place in order). To these invited design teams, the Host will issue the Invitation to Draft the Design Scheme, and the invited design teams shall send the Confirmation of Participation to the Host within a week.

Stage 2: Design Competition (January-April, 2022)

Site visit: The Host will select a date afterwards to organize the site visit and Q&A session. After the site visit and Q&A session, the invited design teams shall carry out design for this Solicitation.

Experts’ review: After the invited design teams submit their deliverables as required, invite well-known experts in the design area to constitute the jury panel, who will review the submittals and select the top three candidates (without ranking).

Final ranking: The Host will comprehensively determine the ranking of the three candidates in combination with the area’s actual development situation and experts’ review comments. The final result will be publicized in relevant websites after the final ranking is completed.

Stage 3: Integration and Detailing (May-June, 2022)

The first-prize winner will have priority to get the follow-up integration and detailing task. If the first-prize winner gives up this task, the other design teams will take over the task in order of ranking, and the task will be given through the government’s single-source procurement procedure. The deliverables of integration and detailing shall reach the depth of schematic design, and meet the requirements of guiding the next-stage preliminary design and construction design.

Schedule (Provisional)

Note: All the time and date above are applied in Beijing Time. The Host reserves the right to amend the schedule.

1.Awards

After the final solicitation result is announced, the five invited design teams, who have passed prequalification and whose submittals have been evaluated as qualified, can win corresponding fees according to their ranking as follows:

First prize: can win the award of RMB Two Million Six Hundred Thousand Yuan (￥2,600,000) ;

Second prize: can win the award of RMB One Million Eight Hundred Thousand Yuan (￥1,800,000);

Third prize: can win the award of RMB One Million Two Hundred Thousand Yuan (￥1,200,000).

For the other two invited design teams that are not ranked top three, each can receive an award of RMB Eight Hundred Thousand Yuan (￥800,000).

2. Follow-up Integration & Detailing Fee

The follow-up integration and detailing fee of this Solicitation will be RMB Two Million Yuan (￥2,000,000), and the first-prize winner of the Solicitation will have priority to get the fee. If the first-prize winner gives up this integration and detailing task, the other invited design teams will take over the task in order of ranking, and the task will be given through the government’s single-source procurement procedure. The deliverables of integration and detailing shall reach the depth of schematic design, and meet the requirements of guiding the next-stage preliminary design and construction design.

Inquiry of Information

Please visit the following websites for more information on the Solicitation:

http://www.laoshan.gov.cn/n206250/index.html

http://zrzygh.qingdao.gov.cn/n28356074/index.html

https://www.szdesigncenter.org/