The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – the Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition scheme – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the IHBC Director’s top pick for NewsBlog readers from the issue this week features a call from Historic England (HE), which seeks a HE Level 3 building record of the unlisted former Hewitt Bros. Cooperage as part of the wider Greater Grimsby Heritage Action Zone project, closing 13 November and valued at £4-4.5K.
IHBC Chair James Caird said: ‘Our weekly News and Tender Alert offers current tender opportunities to HESPR members, supporting commercial conservation businesses that work to the IHBC’s standards and expectations. These weekly selections offer the wider heritage world a regular insight into the conservation profession that we hope combine good news, sector profile and service inspiration all in one.’
Top tender pick of the week:
The IHBC Director’s pick from the HESPR News and Tender Alert email for this week features the call from Historic England for ‘a Historic England Level 3 building record, to include a search for any archival records relating to the building, to provide information on its local and national context, and to comment on its significance’ of ‘The unlisted Cooperage, constructed around 1900… the last surviving building of the Hewitt Bros Ltd, Tower Brewery’ as ‘part of the wider Greater Grimsby Heritage Action Zone project (2018-23)’ with ‘The main aims [being]… to improve our understanding of this distinctive building, to inform options and opportunities for its reuse that retain its most important historic features’, with a deadline of 13 November and the contract valued at £4,000.00 – £4,500.00
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For more on HESPR and how to become a HESPR member see hespr.ihbc.org.uk
For a free promotion of your tendering opportunities and work needs to the IHBC’s HESPR members, please send details and links to Joanna at contact@ihbc.org.uk, as soon as possible.
Tenders can also be advertised for a fee with IHBC Jobs etc, including a targeted email to 1600+ recipients as well as full coverage on our NewsBlog alerts and social platforms (membership and followers c.18,000) and websites with c. 290,000 visits a month. Contact Joanna at contact@ihbc.org.uk
