Procedural Stages
Procedurele fases die leiden tot het aanduiden van een bouwmeester en tot het uitvoeren van de opdracht van bouwmeester
a) Project competition
A notice for a restricted competition for projects relating to the redevelopment of the northern strategic centre (Heysel) of the City of Brussels was published in the Official Journal of the European Community on 12 May 2009 and in the Bulletin des Adjudications on 15 May 2009.
The competition comprises two phases :
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The first phase consists of the selection of a minimum of three and a maximum of eight candidates on the basis of the selection criteria set out in the procurement notice which, as well as the actual exclusion criteria, concern the candidates’ economic, financial and technical capabilities to carry the project through to a successful conclusion. |
At the end of the selection procedure, successful candidates will receive a copy of the specifications and will be required to prepare an overall project for the development and regeneration of the northern strategic centre of Heysel. The projects will be presented anonymously for decision by the panel, which will evaluate them on the basis of the evaluation criteria set out in the specifications. The decision of the panel will be binding on the City of Brussels, which will name the two competition winners. |
b) Negotiated procedure without prior advertisement
A negotiated procedure without prior advertisement will then be opened with the two competition winners. The objective of this procedure, after negotiations which will in particular aim to refine the project of each of the two winners, is to award to one of them, on the basis of specific award criteria, the contract for services relating to support for redevelopment of the Heysel site in accordance with the project that it proposes ("Bouwmeester" project).
c) Town planning context for the "bouwmeester" project
In order to successfully carry through the regeneration project for the Heysel site, from the point of view of the law on land and town planning, several phases will need to be conducted.
On one hand, statute 8.3 of the PRAS (regional land use plan) should be implemented, which, in the area of general interest and public service facilities, provides for the possibility of applying high mix area statutes where justified for economic and social reasons and for PPAS (specific land use plan). A PPAS should be adopted but above all steps should be taken to ensure that the PPAS adopted on this basis is a derogating PPAS within the meaning of Article 42 of CoBAT (Brussels land planning code) to allow the completion of the planned works, particularly the construction of some 100,000 m² of offices, and the construction of a large shopping centre.
A PRAS modification could alternatively be considered, again with the purpose of successfully carrying through the redevelopment project of the Heysel site.
On the other hand, on the basis of the derogating PPAS and/or the decision to modify the PRAS (CoBAT Article 188(3)), and/or the modified PRAS, the various planning permit applications (and, where necessary, environmental permit applications) required for the redevelopment of the Heysel site will be made.
Insofar as the future PPAS will be prepared on the basis of the project put forward by the "Bouwmeester", for which it has been nominated, the "Bouwmeester" will take an active part in the process of preparing the derogating PPAS and drafting the report on its environmental impact. It may also be called upon to play a similar role, in the context of a modification to the PRAS for the Heysel site, if the Brussels government decides on a partial revision of the PRAS.
On the other hand, drafting of the various planning permit applications and, where necessary, environmental permit applications, will be the subject of separate public contracts described below.