Solicitation for the Conceptual Architectural Design of National Art Museum of China

Part Project Brief

1.Project Name: Solicitation for the Conceptual Architectural Design of National Art Museum. of China

2.Project Location:B04 land plot in Area for Cultural and Miscellaneous Purposes, central area, Beijing Olympic Green

3.Design Specifications: Complete the conceptual architectural design of the National Art Museum of China, along with urban design concept for the B02 to B07 plots in accordance with the design proposed.

4.Organizer: National Art Museum of China

5.Solicitation Agency: Beijing Science Park Auction & Tender Co., Ltd.

Part Time for Designing:

The designers who pass the prequalification will have 6 weeks to finish the design.

Part Application Document

1.A3 Design Booklet

This booklet should include design description, Table of Technical Economic Norms and the compact edition of design drawings

2. Display Board

3. Electronic Document

This electronic document should include design description design drawings and multimedia files with Chinese subtitles and audio commentary.

Part Compensation for Application

1. Compensation for Application

Compensation for the applicants: for the oversea applicants, 350,000 yuan (including taxes); for domestic applicants, 200,000 yuan (including taxes). But applicants who fail to submit application documents on time or submit application documents which are not in accordance with the requirements, thereby are disqualified, shall not receive the compensation from the Organizer.

2.Awards

There are 5 winning prizes. Applicants who received the winning prize will be invited to participate in the bid for the Conceptual Architectural Design of National Art Museum.

If the candidates who have got winning prizes choose to give up participating in the bid for the Conceptual Architectural Design of National Art Museum, compensation as stated above is available.

Part Intellectual Property Rights

1.None of the application documents submitted during this solicitation are to be returned.

2.Applicants enjoy the right of authorship. The permission of the organizer is needed before the applicants may appraise and demonstrate their works through mass media, professional journals, books or other ways.

3.Organizer has the right to use the submitted designs during the planning and designing of this project. Meanwhile, Organizer has the right to print, publish and exhibit the designs, through mass media, professional journals, books or other ways.

4.Applicants and Organizers will not use the designs submitted during this solicitation for anything other than this project.

5.Applicants shall make sure that the design documents submitted will not infringe upon the intellectual property rights (including but not limited to copyright, and patent right) of anyone within or outside of China, or proprietary technology, or trade secrets. Applicant shall guarantee that if the designs involve any other person's intellectual property right, or proprietary technology, or trade secrets, legal, valid and sufficient authorization should be acquired beforehand from the owners of the IPR. All the liabilities caused by the infringement of others IPR, or proprietary technology, or trade secrets, should be assumed by the applicants.

6.The various components of the solicitation documents (including verbal description, drawings and charts) are the fruit of the parties that participate in this solicitation. The Intellectual Property Right of this above-stated document belongs to the organizer and designing institutes involved. The applicants can only utilize the solicitation document for preparing the application document. Without Organizer s written permission, the applicants shall not use the above-stated documents for other engineering design or any other purposes; nor should the documents be leaked to any third party. Applicants who have leaked information or violate the IPR of the Organizer or the designers involved will be held responsible for any consequence caused by the inappropriate behaviors.