TREUTLEN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION SOPERTON, GEORGIA
SEPTEMBER 9, 2009
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT (CM) SERVICES
INVITATION
The Treutlen County Board of Education, Owner, is requesting a proposal from interested and qualified Construction Management (CM) firms for the construction of Treutlen County K-12 School.
SCOPE OF WORK
The scope of work includes a new County K-12 School constructed on a new site in Treutlen County. The school will be designed for approximately 1,145 students and 72 instructional units, including, but not limited to, Cafetorium, Kitchen, Media, Core Classrooms, Science, Art, Music, Physical Education, Special Education, Technical and Career Education, Administration, Clinic, ISS, Gifted and support spaces totaling approximately 150,000 square feet gross area.
Architectural design services will be provided by the Treutlen County Board of Education, Architect of Record, SRJ Architects Inc., 1108 Maryland Drive, Albany, Georgia, 31707. Please direct all questions to the Lead Architect, Mr. David Guerra, Vice President, 229-436-9877, or dguerra@srjarchitects.com.
Design is planned to begin in the Fall of 2009 with construction beginning in the Spring of 2010.
Funding for this project is being provided by local SPLOST, State Capital Outlay and local funds.
SCOPE OF CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT SERVICES:
The scope of services to be provided by the Construction Manager (CM) shall be in accordance with the AIA Document A121/CMc and AGC Document 565 “Standard Form of Agreement Between Owner and Construction Manager where the Construction Manager is also the Constructor,” 2003 Edition.
The services to be performed by the CM will have as their objective the efficient, economical, and timely delivery of the project by managing the construction of the project within the time and cost limitations and within established quality requirements. Services will be performed during the Preconstruction Phase and Construction Phase, including working with the Owner and Architect in project planning, estimating, value engineering, arrangements of bid packages, bidding and award of the trade contracts, and management of construction until occupancy is achieved, and implementing the one year warranty and one year warranty inspection.
It is the intent of the Owner that the successful CM will provide a Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP) and a Guaranteed Delivery Date that is mutually agreed upon by the parties.
REQUIRED SUBMITTAL INFORMATION
Each proposal should contain the following information for review and consideration. The Treutlen County Board of Education may reject proposals that are substantially incomplete or lack key information and reserves the right to reject any and/or all proposals.
- Firm History & Information: Briefly describe your firm, its officers and executive management. Furnish an organizational chart of your firm specifically indicating those who will be involved in this program, their assignment and time involved in this project.
- Firm Experience and References: Provide a list of all projects completed in the past five (5) years and specifically identify the two (2) most recent Construction Management at-risk projects completed (preferably school projects). Include reference information with names, titles and telephone numbers for projects.
- Program Approach: Provide a brief outline and description of your firm’s approach to Preconstruction and Construction Services on a project of this nature.
- Self-Performing Capability: Briefly describe your firm’s capability to self-perform work if required (i.e. - layout, concrete, masonry, carpentry, miscellaneous specialities).
- Performance: Provide the following information for each of the two (2) Construction Management at-risk projects listed in response to item 2 above:
A. Guaranteed Maximum Price. (GMP)
B. Construction Manager’s Fee Percentage for Preconstruction and Construction Services.
C. Report the bid packages your firm divided the scope of work into. How many bid packages received three
(3) or more bids from qualified subcontractors? How many bid packages were self-performed by your
firm?
D. Report the amount of Contingency included in the GMP.
E. Change Orders: List all change orders, including amounts and a brief description of the scope of work
and who initiated the change order (Owner, Architect or CM).
F. Provide an accounting of the actual construction contingency allocations in the following categories:
a. Construction related expenses.
b. Owner initiated enhancements/revisions.
c. Savings returned to Owner.
d. Other. (Please provide explanation/description)
G. Construction Period: Original scheduled construction period and actual construction period.
6. Bonding Information:
A. Provide the name, address, telephone number and contact for your Bonding Company.
B. List your total bonding capacity and the total value of all projects currently under construction. Give the
percentage of completion of each project.
C. List all bonding companies used in the last five (5) years.
7. Financial Information: Provide information about the company in sufficient detail to allow its financial
strength and credit worthiness to be evaluated. Provide a bank reference, name and number that is
authorized to discuss your financial information.
8. Construction Manager’s Fee: Provide your proposed Preconstruction and Construction Services Fees for
this project.
EVALUATION CRITERIA
| |
|
Points (Max.) |
| 1. |
Composition and qualifications of the Company and the persons designated to form the proposer's staff for this project. |
15 |
| 2. |
Firm experience and performance in similar projects. |
20 |
| 3. |
Approach to Preconstruction and Construction Services. |
5 |
| 4. |
Self-Performing capability. |
5 |
| 5. |
Past performance in delivering the required services in an efficient and timely manner. |
5 |
| 6. |
Past performance in terms of construction costs. |
5 |
| 7. |
Bonding capacity, current workload and financial strength. |
10 |
| 8. |
Location of the CM's primary office in relation to the Project site. |
15 |
| 9. |
Construction Manager's Fee Percentages for this project. |
15 |
| 10. |
Intangibles which best demonstrate the proposers ability to provide services to the Owner. |
5
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|
100 |
PROPOSAL SUBMISSION AND AWARD
Sealed responses must be received on or before 2:00 p.m. local current Standard Time on October 8, 2009. After which time and date they will no longer be accepted. Late responses will be returned and unopened and will not be considered. Oral or telegraphic (including FAX) responses are not acceptable. To be accepted, all responses must be submitted in a sealed packaged marked “Proposal for CM at Risk”. Six (6) copies of each proposal should be forwarded or delivered to:
Mr. Charles Ellington, Superintendent
Treutlen County Board of Education
5040 3rd Street South
Soperton, Georgia 30457
At the time and place noted above the proposals will be publicly opened and the names of proposers announced to all persons present. Proposals will then be reviewed by the School Board and Superintendent and a list of candidates (3 to 5) will be selected for an interview. A Notification of Interview, of the selected firms, will be publicly announced by the Board within the specified timeframe. Interviews, grading and ranking will be scheduled by the Board. The Board intends to rank the most qualified interviewed firms based on the Evaluation Criteria listed. Should the Board and the first ranked firm fail to negotiate mutually acceptable fees and conditions for service, the Board shall abandon negotiations with the first firm and initiate negotiations with other firms in rank and order, however the Board reserves the right to reject any or all proposals if deemed to be in the best interest of the Treutlen County Board of Education.
| Submittal Date |
October 8, 2009 |
| Notification of Interview: |
October 15, 2009 |
| Interviews, grading and ranking |
October 22, 2009 |
| Board of Education selection of CM |
October 29, 2009 |
No Proposal may be withdrawn for a period of sixty days subsequent to the date of opening of proposals.
Published on 08 September, 2009 4:00 PM Eastern