REGULATIONS

2.1 Territorial background and urban plans

2.2 Purpose of the competition

2.3 The design area

2.4 Guide-lines and functional program of the new High-Speed station

2.4.1 Guide-lines

2.4.2 Design restrictions

2.4.3 Further prescriptions

2.4.4 Functional requirements

2.4.5 Fire safety

2.5 Functional program of parking areas

2.6 Outside arrangements

2.7 Prescriptional nature of design guide-lines

2.8 Cost of the High-Speed station

3.1 Participation requirements

3.2 Grounds for exclusion

Participants are forbidden to take part in the competition in more than one temporary team, as well as both on their own and as members of a team. Single professionals are also forbidden to take part in the competition if they participate – under any capacity – in a professional company or in an engineering company taking part in the competition and of which the professional is managing director, partner, employee or freelance collaborator with a regular ongoing contract. The infringement of the rules above leads to the exclusion from the competition of both participants (single competitionants or teams).
Those who meet the conditions envisaged by article 38 of the Legislative Decree No.163/06 and following amendments are excluded from the competition.
It is moreover reasons of exclusion from the competition, the presence of situation of control and connection regulated by the art. 2359 of civil code.


A suitable organizational Secretariat that will establish liaisons with the participants, for the forwarding of the competition documentation, for the material’s reception, for the supply of information, has been set up.

The organizational secretariat shall communicate with participants and examinees by fax and/or email, according to the following contacts:

Fax +39 06 44105065

e-mail:concorsovesuvioest@rfi.it

We wish to specify that the Authority in charge of competition announcement will communicate with the design team only through the team leader's email.

The competition documentation is available for free on the website:

www.rfi.it/concorsovesuvioest

Faxes will be received during office hours (from 9.00am to 6.00pm of working days - Italian time).


As regards the formal and technical assessment of the material submitted by the participants, the Jury will be supported by a Technical Commission appointed by the Authority in charge of competition announcement.


The Jury is responsible for assessing the documentation sent by the participants, for checking the compliance with the requirements and limits as per items 3.1 and 3.2 and for selecting ten participants that will be invited to submit the preliminary plan envisaged by the competition and for identifying the winning design idea among them.

The Jury will take any final decision on participants’ exclusion (item 3.2 of the Regulations).

The Jury is made up of regular and substitute members and this is the same for both competition stages. A President and a Vice-president will be appointed during its first meeting.

The activities of the Jury, which are valid with the attendance of all regular members of the Jury, are carried on in secret and will be carried on in Rome according to the calendar set by the Authority in charge of the competition announcement.

Decisions are taken by majority and are binding towards the Authority in charge of the competition announcement.

If a regular member does not take part in a meeting, he/she will be replaced by a substitute member, appointed by the President, for all the sessions of the competition stage (preselection or competition) that he/she missed. He/she can be reinstated at a later stage. If the President is absent, he/she will be replaced by the Vice-president.

Substitute members fully take part in the works of the Jury, with no rights to vote, with the exception of the case of appointment specified in the section above. If a substitute member does not take part in a meeting, he/she cannot replace a regular member for all the meetings of the competition stage that he/she missed.

The regular members of the Jury are:

1. Mario Botta
2. Carlo De Vito
3. Marina Habetswallner
4. Romeo La Pietra
5. David Nelson
6. Stefano Reggio
7. Daniela Volpi

The substitute members of the Jury are:

1. Modestino Ferraro
2. Angelo Romeo

The Jury is supported by a secretary, appointed by the Authority in charge of the competition announcement, who takes part in the works of the Jury with no right to vote and draws up the minutes. The minutes shall concisely describe the assessment method adopted, the working procedure and the grounds for the choices made by the Jury.


The following documents are attached to the Regulations:

1. Examples of statements
2. Preliminary design document
3. Historical outline
4. Photographic portfolio and annexes

The competition documentation as per this item and copy of these Regulations is available for free on the website www.rfi.it/concorsovesuvioest
All the drawings in the website are in the ".jpg" format, they will be given in ".dwg" and ".dxf" to the participants admitted to the Competition.




Those wishing to enter the competition shall submit the following documentation, on pain of exclusion:

1. File introducing respective teams;
2. File containing administrative documentation;
3. Bill with a short introduction of the team;
4. CD-rom with the images of at most 10 words.

The name of the representative team member and the title of the file (“Team introduction”, “Administrative documentation”) shall be specified on both files. The files “Team introduction” and “Administrative documentation” shall be delivered in double copies. The material delivered will not be returned to the participants.

1. cover with the name of the participant or, in case of temporary design teams, of the team leader (professional or company) and the file title;
2. maximum 2 pages (4 sides of sheet) illustrating the design team composition with relevant specific skills;
3. maximum 4 pages (8 sides of sheet) of professional and scientific CVs of the team members (4 pages for the whole team, not for each member);
4. maximum 10 pages (20 sides of sheet) of images and texts illustrating the works that the participant regards as most significant, either built or non built, with particular reference to the purpose of the competition (exchange junctions, railway or underground stations, airports, …);
5. short table of the works shown (see Form 1).

The illustration of the works as per item 4 shall contain the following information:

• short description of the work;
• quantitative data concerning the work volume and area and cost of the work;
• the client;
• kick-off of the works and date of completion of the work, if built, or work progress percentage if the construction is still under way;
• role and professional activity carried on in the work design by the participant or by the member of the team who participates in this competition.

All the teams have to submit the same amount of documentation, regardless of the number of the team members.

• cover with the name of the participant or, in case of design teams, of the team leader (professional or company) and the file title;
• full composition of the design team: team leader (with office address, telephone, email), team members with relevant qualifications, data of inclusion into professional registers, and role played within the design team. If the team leader is a company, the name of the legal representative and of the technical manager, if this is a different person, shall be specified.
• in case of design teams, appointment of the person acting as representative team member and mandate given to this person to represent the team or statement in which the team members specify the name of the person who acts as team leader and undertake, if he/she were selected, to comply with the legal provisions in force as to the composition of temporary design teams (see form 2);
• statement signed by the participant in accordance with Presidential Decree No.445/2000 certifying that the participation requirements set at item 3.1 are met, that the are no grounds for exclusion as item 3.2, that they authorize the right to have the design exhibited and/or published and also to have the name of the designers mentioned, even if they did not win, and for engineering and professional companies the statement that certifies that they meet the requirements as per articles 53 and 54 of Presidential Decree No.554/99 (see Form 3). In case of design team, the statement above must be made by each team member .
• we wish to specify that the Authority in charge of competition announcement will communicate with the design team only by the email of the team leader;
• declaration of acceptance of the clauses of which to the Protocollo di Legalità, Legality File of Contracts, drowed up between the prefect of Napoli, the Regione Campania, the Napoli Chamber of Commerce and ANCI Campania, under the date of August the 7th 2007, undersigned for acceptance by RFI SpA under the date of December the 21st 2007 given according to the Presidential Decree n. 445 of the December 28 2000 (see Form 3/B);

A vertical affiche in A2 format supported by a light rigid panel shall contain the identification of the team leader, images and texts concerning the works illustrated in file A.


All the images in the CD shall contain the name of the team leader and information about the work shown.


The documentation required shall arrive - on pain of exclusion - in only one sealed envelope, not later than 6 pm of the day October, the 27th 2008 to the following address:

RFI S.p.A. Gruppo Ferrovie dello Stato

Piazza della Croce Rossa, 1

00161 Roma

ITALIA

The envelope shall specify: "Concorso Internazionale di progettazione per la realizzazione della Stazione di Interscambio tra la linea a Monte del Vesuvio e la Circumvesuviana - Richiesta di partecipazione". (International design competition for the construction of the Interchange Station between the railway line Monte del Vesuvio and the Circumvesuviana railway – Entry). A receipt with delivery date and time will be issued on delivery, both by hand and by means of courier.

The deadline refers without fail to the date of delivery and not of shipment, whatever shipping method has been chosen.

In case of parcel miscarriage, the Authority in charge of the competition announcement will not accept any recourse by the participants and will not be liable for the receipt of the documentation beyond the deadline, due to misdelivery or postal or courier delays. The Authority in charge of the competition announcement shall not accept any parcel whose shipping costs are charged to the addressee.


As per item 3.5, the Jury will select the best ten participants to be admitted to the competition among all those who applied to take part in the competition in compliance with the conditions and within the limits set at items 3.1 and 3.2. The selection will be based on the following criteria:

• architectural quality and technical complexity of the works illustrated with particular reference to the works envisaged by the competition: 50%;
• quality of the professional and scientific CVs of the team members and organization of the team that provides the different specific skills necessary for the development of the design that is envisaged by the competition, such as the professional figures of designer, structural engineer, plant engineer: 50%;

As to the works illustrated at item 4 of the “Team introduction” file set out at item 4.1.1 above, higher importance will be given to the built and recent works. The Jury will choose the ten participants to be admitted to the competition within the sixty days after the deadline for documentation delivery. The selected participants are admitted to the competition tied with each other. The number of the participants admitted to the competition may be lower than ten units due to lacking entries or due to decisions rendered by the Jury in accordance with items 3.1 and 3.2, provided that the number of entries exceeds five units. If the number of entries is lower than five, there will be no second competition stage.


The competition is aimed at the selection of the preliminary plan of the new interchange Vesuvio Est station.


The printouts of the participants in the competition will be anonymous. The participants selected with the procedures above are invited by means of fax by the organizational Secretariat to take part in the competition within five days from the notification of the decision rendered by the Jury to the Authority in charge of the competition announcement. The participants are bound to confirm their participation within ten days from the notification of the invitation by fax. In case of withdrawal by a participant admitted to the competition no replacement is envisaged.


To complete and supplement the documentation provided with these Regulations, the participants admitted to the competition may receive further useful documentation for the development of the preliminary plan.


The participants admitted to the competition will be invited to take part in an site inspection of the area concerned by the design and to a workshop aimed at studying the programmatic targets of the second competition stage, the requirements by the Authority in charge of the competition announcement, the economic and operational reference framework, the procedural and regulatory context more thoroughly.


Any technical inquiry shall be sent in writing - by fax or email - to the competition Secretariat not later than 30 days from the over-the-spot investigation or workshop. For technical and organizational reasons, the Authority in charge of the competition announcement will not accept any inquiry beyond this date. A summary of the inquiries and of the answers to the most important questions will be sent by the Authority in charge of the competition announcement via e-mail to all participants within thirty days from the deadline above.


The printouts of the participants in the competition will be anonymous. Any information that may jeopardize the anonymity of the participants shall be omitted, under pain of exclusion from the competition.

The participants shall deliver:

A.
a sealed envelope, specifying on the outer part only the “motto” chosen for the competition, made up of a maximum of four words and three Arabic numbers, containing:

• "motto";
• name of the group-leader.

B.
the printouts required for the entry in the competition, identified with the “motto” only, in accordance with the provisions envisaged for the preliminary plan under article 93 of legislative Decree April 12th 2006, No.163 and under articles 18 - 24 of Presidential Decree No.554 of 1999, in particular:

• model (scale 1:500);
• explanatory report in horizontal A3 format: it may be supported by images and graphic layouts, it will explain the design criteria with particular reference to typological, distribution and management aspects of the flows of people and objects. It shall also show the design compliance with the functional requirements and with the guide-lines set by the Authority in charge of the competition announcement. Finally it will include the simplified metrical computation of the works to be designed and the estimated costs according to the Form No 4; no further or different printouts are admitted;
• technical report in horizontal A3 format: it will include the description and the preliminary calculations of structures and plants; it shall provide the first information and guide-lines for the drawing up of safety plans and for the setting up of construction sites for the work. It shall also include the time schedule with the times for the main construction stages, as well as the description of these stages to justify their estimated time schedule with respect to the building method adopted;
• maximum ten tables in horizontal A0 format showing:
  • layout and volumetry showing the integration of the design into the environment (scale 1:1.000);
  • layout of the station specifying access solutions (scale 1:500);
  • layout at the most significant heights, sections and views of the works that are envisaged by the design (scale 1:500);
  • extracts of layouts, views and sections (scale 1:200);
  • perspectives, axonometric projections and any graphic representation suitable for showing the design choices;
• a cd-rom containing the summarizing tables, as per Form 4 and a digital copy of the tables; in particular Autocad drawings shall be in .dwg and in .eps format for Adobe Illustrator; any photos and rendering shall be submitted as Photoshop files in .eps or .tif format with 300 dpi necessary resolution (printing format A3).

The printouts shall use the metric system as system of measurement and specify a graphic metric reference, in order to ensure also the publication in smaller formats. All graphic printouts shall specify the sentence, they may be drawn up in black and white or in colour and shall be delivered in double copies, one copy mounted on light rigid panels and one copy folded in A4 format. The reports shall specify the sentence, they can be drawn up in black and white or in colour and shall be delivered in double copies. Two further copies of the tables in a smaller A3 format shall be also submitted. A free printout (video, etc.) is possible. Such printouts will be held by the Authority in charge of the competition announcement. No further or different printouts are accepted.


Whatever shipping method will be chosen, the whole documentation required shall arrive, on pain of exclusion, in sealed containers not later than 6 pm of the 120th day following the date of the fax with the invitation to take part in the competition, to the following address:

RFI S.p.A. Gruppo Ferrovie dello Stato

Via Nomentana, 4

00161 Roma

ITALIA

Each envelope shall specify: "Concorso Internazionale di progettazione per la realizzazione della Stazione di Interscambio tra la linea a Monte del Vesuvio e la Circumvesuviana " (International design competition for the construction of the Interchange Station between the railway line Monte del Vesuvio and the Circumvesuviana railway) and the competition “motto”.

A receipt with delivery date and time will be issued on delivery, both by hand and by means of courier. The deadline refers without fail to the date of delivery and not of shipment, whatever shipping method has been chosen.

In case of parcel miscarriage, the Authority in charge of the competition announcement will not accept any recourse by the participants and will not be liable for the receipt of the documentation beyond the deadline, due to misdelivery or postal or courier delays. Besides, the Authority in charge of the competition announcement shall not accept any envelope whose shipping costs are charged to the addressee.

Entries will be assessed by a blind judging procedure. Any information that may reveal the anonymity of the participants shall be omitted, under pain of exclusion from the competition. If the Post administration or the shipping service used requires the name of the sender, in order to remain anonymous, the name of the Authority in charge of the competition announcement with the same address shall be specified.


The designs submitted will be assessed by the Jury, which decides within ninety days from the delivery deadline. The activities of the Jury will be carried on in secret. The Jury will examine the designs upon preliminary assessment by the technical Secretariat and will select the winning design on the basis of the following criteria:

• architectural quality and work functionality: 50%;
• compliance with the times and the costs of construction and management of the work: 50%.

One only winning design will be selected, with no designs coming equal first.


The winner will be awarded a prize of Euro 100.000,00 net of VAT and of social security contributions, if due. Each one of the participants who did not win but who submitted a preliminary plan in accordance with the functional program and complete with the required printouts within the deadline set, will have expenses reimbursed in the amount of Euro 25.000,00 each, net of VAT and social security contributions, if due.


The competition results will be published under article 236 of the Legislative Decree of Aprile 12th 2006, N. 163.


The Authority in charge of the competition announcement may entrust the winner with the final design of the Vesuvio Est station, in accordance with the rules and on the conditions regulating the activity in Italy.

To be entrusted with the final design, the winner shall meet, even as design team, the following economical and financial, technical and organizational requirements:

1. total turnover for design service and relevant technical and administrative activities, that took place in the years 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 not lower than Euro 3.614.600,00;
2. in the last ten years, design service and relevant technical and administrative activities for civil constructions, and even less to the buildings of class I categories “b”, “c” e “d”, of which to the law N. 143/49 and Ministerial Decree 04/04/2001, for an amount of Euro 78.501.400,00; heating, conditioning and ventilation equipment for an amount of Euro 10.329.100,00; lighting, telephone and special equipment for an amount of Euro 14.460.800,00;
3. in the last ten years two design operations and relevant technical and administrative activities for civil constructions for a total amount not lower than Euro 15.700.300,00; heating, air conditioning and ventilation equipment for a total amount not lower than Euro 2.065.800,00; lighting, telephone and special equipment for an amount of Euro 2.892.200,00;
4. average yearly number of the people making up the technical staff in the last three years - including active partners, employees and consultants working as freelance collaborators with regular ongoing contracts on a yearly basis - of 15 units.

We wish to specify that the engineering service that can be assessed is the one started and completed in the ten or five years prior to the date of publication of these regulations, or the part of them completed in the same period in case of services started in previous times.

Remunerations will be calculated on the basis of the fees for engineers and architects applied in Italy, to which 20% reduction will be applied and according to what stated in the Form No.5.

With a view to the necessary requirements, the awarded participant may take some more people meeting the necessary requirements into partnership to set up temporary groupings, with exclusion of those people who, individually, as teams, as team members, or as consultants or collaborators of the participants, have either taken part in the competition or have entered the competition.

If the Authority in charge of the competition announcement does not entrust the winner with the further design within 12 months from the notification of the competition results, the winner will be granted the amount corresponding to the professional performance for the preliminary plan, from which the amount of the prize awarded will be deducted, as definitive indemnification.

The station design will be drawn up in accordance with the regulations in force and with the general directives and with any further technical specifications by the Client, which may ask for qualitative and quantitative changes or for improvements, also to have the design authorized or approved. This will not lead to any further remuneration in addition to the one set for the development of the design.


The property right of the design ideas submitted belongs to the competitioning authors, with the exception of the winning design, whose property right is acquired by the Authority in charge of the competition announcement after the prize payment. However, the designer maintains the relevant copyright and intellectual property right. In case of design teams, with equal titles and rights, the authorship of the participating project is recognized to all the team members. The Authority in charge of the competition announcement reserves the right to exhibit, publish or allow the partial or total publication of the printouts submitted to the competition without owing anything to the participants. Only after the publication of the final results of the competition, each participant who did not win is allowed to exhibit and/or publish the works he/she submitted. Starting from the sixtieth day from the end of the exhibition and within thirty days the participants who did not win may collect their own printouts at t heir own expenses. After this period the Authority in charge of the competition announcement will be no more responsible for preserving them.


Within 12 months from the announcement of final results, the Authority in charge of the competition will publish the designs submitted, even through an exhibition and/or the publication of a catalogue.


Italian is the official language of the competition. However, the use of the English language is allowed. With respect to the text of these Regulations and of relevant attachments, in case of disputes or contestation, wherever different interpretations between both texts are possible, the text in Italian will be regarded as valid.


The participation in the competition implies the unconditional acceptance of all the rules of the competition and of the Regulations by each participant.


Any disputes that are not settled out of court, fall within the jurisdiction of Rome Courts.


Notification of the competition announcement to the European Official Gazette (G.U.C.E.): September, the 10th 2008

Delivery of the candidature dossier for the Preselection: October, the 27th 2008

Notification of the result of the Preselection and invitation to take part in the Competition:
Within 60 days from the delivery of the files participants for the Preselection.

Site investigation and workshop:
Within 30 days from the invitation to take part in the Competition.

Inquiries by the participants:
Within 30 days from the over-the-spot investigation and workshop.

Replies to the participants’ inquiries:
Within 30 days from the deadline for the submission of inquiries.

Delivery of the Competition printouts:
On the 120th day following the date of the telegram with the invitation to take part in the Competition.

Notification of the final results of the Competition:
Within 90 days from the delivery of the Competition printouts.


Follows the concise description of the work done, referring to the specific papers for a deeper description.

The propaedeutic technical documentation for the design competition is constituted by the following papers:

1. General chorography
2. Photographic survey
3. Technical report
4. Planimetry of the proposals of work on accessibility
5. Territorial Coordination Plan of the Province of Napoli
6. Territorial Coordination Plan of the Province of Salerno
7. PRG (General Planning Scheme) of the Municipality of Striano
8. PRG (General Planning Scheme) of the Municipality of Poggiomarino
9. Urbanization Program of the Municipality of Sarno
10. Rail plan