The government’s new ‘two-envelope’ bidding process for a prime parcel of reclamation land means design quality will be as important as price. However, our Alex Leung reviewed 13 building projects from Cyberport in 2004 up to the present day and found that they were designed by many architects and consultants who had successfully passed pre-qualification.
Moreover the scores awarded each to the three consultants responsible for the master plan for the West Kowloon Cultural District in 2010 were also quite similar.
CHFT believes that under the “two-envelope” bidding process for Site 3 of Central Harbourfront, prospective consortia interested in bidding will definitely partner with world class architects, planning and landscape consultants to design the project.
Thus each tenderer will submit a top class design such that the final scores awarded cannot possibly differ by a significant margin, with the scores of the three highest scoring tenderers differing by not more than 15%.
