Gyeonggi Province Library Construction Bid Announcement...Targeting 2025 Opening

[Suwon Ilbo=Park No-hun Reporter] Gyeonggi Province has announced a bid for the construction of 'Gyeonggi Province Library,' the province's first public library, and has begun administrative procedures targeting an opening in 2025.

Gyeonggi Province Library, the province's representative public library, will be built in the Gwanggyo New City Gyeonggi Convergence Town in Uisang-dong, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon City, with a scale of 4 underground floors and 5 above-ground floors totaling a floor area of 27,775 square meters.

The project will invest approximately 110.1 billion won and will house 900,000 volumes of books, the largest collection in the province.

The construction bid announcement will proceed through a detailed design technical proposal bidding method.

The detailed design technical proposal bidding method is a process in which bidders review the detailed design documents and bid guidance provided by the contracting authority and propose construction plans and cost reduction methods.

Through this evaluation process, the contracting authority can encourage creative and high-quality technical proposals containing new construction methods and technologies.

The province has set 'an eco-friendly library leading carbon neutrality' as the key design principle.

After selecting the successful bidder, the province will operate a 'Construction Project Management Division' composed of responsible construction management engineers, technical experts in various fields, and technical support engineers to professionally and systematically manage the project with the goal of ensuring safe construction execution and quality assurance.

Previously, the province has implemented preliminary procedures including ▲local finance investment review (October 2018) ▲public property management plan (May 2019) ▲land acquisition (September 2019) ▲selection of winning entry in architectural design competition (February 2020) ▲library name selection (September 2020) ▲architectural permits (September 2021) ▲Gyeonggi Province construction technology review (February and November 2021) ▲final report of detailed design (October 2021, after 29 expert forums and field-specific consultation meetings since 2018) ▲pre-review of construction costs by the Public Procurement Service (January 2022).

After the bid announcement, the province plans to conduct a site briefing in April, evaluate technical proposals in June, select the successful bidder in July, and if construction begins within the year, aims for completion in 2024 and opening in 2025.

Lee Hwa-jin, Director of the Lifelong Education Bureau of Gyeonggi Province, said, "We expect new technology application and budget savings through the technical proposal bidding method," adding "Gyeonggi Province Library will be the representative library at the provincial level supporting activation and cooperation of library operations in the province, and will faithfully fulfill the role of a representative library by composing content essential to residents and administration, including promotion of residents' reading culture and provision of Gyeonggi Province regional information services."

Meanwhile, this bid announcement for Gyeonggi Province Library construction is jointly tendered with the Gyeonggi Convergence Town plaza and pedestrian mall construction project.

The Gyeonggi Convergence Town plaza and pedestrian mall will be built in front of Gyeonggi Province Library with a floor area of 1,438 square meters, and commercial facilities are scheduled to be installed on the basement first floor.

The bid announcement can be found on Nara Jangter (https://www.g2b.go.kr). For detailed information regarding the project, contact the Convergence Town Management Division of Gyeonggi Housing and Urban Development Corporation at 031-8012-7664.