Announcement for International Competition of Architectural Conceptual Designs for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics National Speed Skating Oval

V. Competition Sign-up and Access to Prequalification Documents

Registration for this project will start from 8:30 am, June 6, 2016 and end at 6 pm, June 20, 2016 (Beijing time). The actual time of receipt of the registration e-mails on the part of the competition agency at Beijing time shall be checked against the announced registration deadline.

1. Access to entry forms

Prospective applicants may download the entry form at the website of the competition agency (www.bkpmzb.com), fill in the form and have it stamped with the official seal of the design institute. The scanned document (in the PDF format) shall be sent as an attachment to the designated e-mail account for the competition event (olybj2022@bjghw.gov.cn).

The original hard copy of the form shall be delivered to the competition agency together with the prequalification documents.

2. Confirmation of entry

When the e-mail is received by the competition agency, it will notify the prospective applicant of the registration confirmation outcome by e-mail. The prospective applicants whose registrations have been confirmed and accepted shall receive by e-mail the downloading password for the prequalification documents.

3. Accessing prequalification documents

Upon obtaining the downloading password, the prospective applicants may download the prequalification documents from the competition agency website (www.bkpmzb.com).

VI. Submission of Prequalification Documents

When the competition applicant has, as required in the prequalification documents, filled in and had ready the prequalification application documents (hard copies: one original, two duplicates; electronic version: two copies, by memory stick or CD), such shall be delivered to the competition agency before 6 pm on June 27, 2016 (Beijing time).

The sponsor and the agency of the competition shall not acknowledge receipt of any prequalification application document submitted beyond the deadline.

VII. The Media for the Release of the Competition Announcement

This announcement shall be issued concurrently on the People's Daily, China Daily, Beijing Daily, and their respective websites; the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games website (www.beijing-2022.cn); the Beijing Municipal Commission of Urban Planning website (www.bjghw.gov.cn); the Architectural Society of China website (www.chinaasc.org); the China Procurement and Bidding Website (www.chinabidding.com.cn), and the Beijing Sci-Tech Park Auction & Tender Company Ltd. website (www.bkpmzb.com).

VIII. Remuneration and Prizes

The remuneration is the compensation that the sponsor pays to the 12 selected contestants for their participation in the competition and for submission of valid designs for the competition. With regard to those contestants who fail to submit competition documents within the time designated, or whose competition documents submitted have been determined to be invalid, no remuneration shall be paid by the sponsor.

Valid designs for the competition refer to those designs that have passed the preliminary examination by the technical team of the sponsor, and have been submitted by contestants who have not been disqualified, as confirmed by the Evaluation and Appraisal Committee.

The remuneration for each Chinese contestant is 300,000 yuan (pre-tax); and the remuneration for each overseas contestant is 500,000 yuan (pre-tax) or an equivalent sum in US dollars (pretax).

The Evaluation and Appraisal Committee shall choose three winning designs from the valid architectural conceptual designs for the competition, and award them prizes accordingly. The prize money is the bonus, apart from remuneration, paid to the three best architectural conceptual design award winners. The prize for each winning design is 300,000 yuan (pre-tax) or an equivalent sum in US dollars (pre-tax).

IX. Follow-up Work

The sponsor shall select one from among the winning designs, and the contestant who produces this design shall be awarded the designing right for the architectural design of this project, deepen his designs and be paid the fees accordingly.

The selection of the preliminary designs and the design institute of the construction drawings of this project shall be determined in accordance with the relevant laws and regulations of the People's Republic of China and the Beijing Municipality.