Piraeus Cultural Coast - Museum of Underwater Antiquities

Piraeus Port Authority and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism

ANNOUNCES

Architectural Competition Outline Design

The Competition task is the selection of the contractor who will carry out the final study of the project:

“Redesign of the existing cereals’ stock house building facilities (silo) and its surrounding open space into a museum for underwater antiquities

AND

Regeneration of part of the Piraeus Port Authority (PPA) Coastal Zone – transformation into an open public space for out door activities.

The competition will be held in accordance with the current legislation (Decree 26804/2001 (b’1427/11),L 3316/2005), the terms of this document and all the decrees existed on the date of the announcement’s postage for publication on the E.C. Newspaper and local press.

According to these terms every one who is interested is kindly requested to submit an architectural proposal.

1.    Project Owner – Contracting Authority – Competition Organizer

• The project owner is the Piraeus Port Authority (P.P.A . SA)
• The Competition Organizer is the Piraeus Port Authority (P.P.A. SA) and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (MCT)
• The Contracting Authority is the Piraeus Port Authority (PPA sa)

2.    Competition Type
Open Architectural Competition Outline Design according to case b.2, paragraph 2, article 1 Decree 26804/2001 (b’1427/11). This project is very significant and constitutes a historical and cultural intervention to Piraeus Port.

3.    Awards
Competition jury will award the prizes with gross amounts €118.000,00 according to the article 11 of Decree 26804/2001 as specified in the following table:
1st prize:    €33.040,00
2nd prize:    €28.320,00
3rd prize:    €23.600,00
4th prize:    €18.880,00
5th prize:    €14.160,00

4.    Study fee determination
The study fee specified up to 60% of the final study fee. The estimated fee for the final design study is up to €585.095,00

5.    Terms
Eligible for participation are individuals or consortia formed of individuals or legal entities who throw recognition by the professional body in their country of residence and are entitled to use the occupational title of “Architect”. The submission verifies the applicant’s approval of the tender’s terms. The first prize-winner has to prove his eligibility to carry out the study in accordance with the current legislation. Otherwise he has to cooperate with the team that meets the eligibility requirements. This cooperation is subject to the competition organizer‘s approval.

6.    Submission deadline, registration and documents provision
In order to facilitate the possible participants, all competition data is available on the official site of the competition at the following address www.piraeusculturalcoast.org.gr, though any alteration to the contents of the provided data is strictly forbidden. All submissions must be delivered to P.P.A. Head office, by 20 September 2012 at 12.00 p.m. After this time no entry is going to be acceptable.

7.    Jury
The jury comprises 7 regular members and their corresponding deputy members. The selection of the jury members will be according to art.12 Decree 26804/2011

8.    Language of Competition
The competition documentation is available in Greek and most of it is also available in English.
The Greek language documentation is the original and takes precedence over the English translation.
The texts in the competition proposals must be written in either Greek or English

9.    Notices
The publication date of the Brief in E.U Publication Office is  30th March 2012.
The deadline for the applicants to receive the Brief and the Competition Documents is the 6th August 2012.
The deadline for the submission is on 20th September 2012 at 12:00p.m.
The deadline for the applicants to submit any queries is 14th May 2012.