Request for Qualification - National Holocaust Monument - Call to Design Teams

Request for Qualification - National Holocaust Monument - Call to Design Teams

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Call to Design Teams Open to Canadian-led teams of professional artists, architects, landscape architects and other urban design professionals. International competitors may also participate in these teams.

ELIGIBILITY Your team is eligible for this competition if it meets the following criteria: • The team lead is a Canadian citizen. • Members of the team are professional, practising artists, architects, landscape architects and/or other urban design professionals of demonstrated talent and creativity. • The design team is composed, at a minimum, of at least two members and includes an artist, as well as an architect and/or a landscape architect.

All candidates and finalists who are deemed to be in conflict of interest or could be considered to be in conflict of interest by reason of their relationship with the contracting agency, its staff or administrators, with the sponsoring department, or with a member of the jury, through direct family links or dependant or active professional associations during the course of the competition, cannot participate in the competition. Also excluded are the associates and paid employees of these individuals.

The National Capital Commission (NCC), on behalf of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, is inviting teams of professional artists, architects, landscape architects, and other design professionals to submit their credentials and examples of prior work for the first part of a two-phase competition to create a national Holocaust monument in Canada’s Capital, Ottawa.

This monument will honour the victims and Canadian survivors of the Holocaust and ensure that the Holocaust continues to have a permanent place in our nation’s consciousness and memory.

Up to six finalists will be chosen to participate in phase two of the competition, where they will be asked to prepare a design concept and present their work to the jury in February 2014.

The request for qualifications document will be available between May 17, 2013, and September 4 , 2013.

Any questions you may have on the project or this request for qualification must be submitted in writing, by e-mail or fax to Allan Lapensée, Senior Contract Officer at nhm-mnh@ncc-ccn.ca or 613-239-5007 on or before August 23, 2013 at 3pm (Ottawa time).

There will be no public opening for this Request for Qualification.