DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Florida Gulf Coast UniversityNOTICE TO CONSTRUCTION MANAGERS
Florida Gulf Coast University Board of Trustees, announces that Construction Management Services will be required for the project listed below:
Project No. BR-1078
Project and Location: Innovation Hub Research
Florida Gulf Coast University, Ft. Myers, Florida.
This project will be located remote from the FGCU main campus on a 6.5 acre parcel within a larger developer-owned 240 acre proposed research “innovation hub” park development adjacent on Alico Road, East of Ben Hill Griffin Parkway. The project site is owned by FGCU and is remote to the FGCU main campus.
The site development and building permitting will not require submission to Lee County Development. The project scope will include architectural, civil, landscape, structural, mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineering professional design services.
The Innovation Hub Research facility will be a LEED Silver Certification (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Building. The architect has been directed to design the building for a LEED Silver certification.
The construction budget for this project is approximately $10,000,000 including site work, site utilities and building. The building will contain offices, classrooms, lab classrooms, research space, auditorium, machine shop and other support spaces with a total area of approximately 30,000 gross square feet.
Due to budget restraints, there may be a delay between preconstruction services required of the CM during the design process and the actual start of construction.
Selection will be made on the basis of construction manager’s qualifications, including experience and ability; past experience; bonding capacity; record-keeping/administrative ability, critical path scheduling expertise; cost estimating; cost control ability; quality control capability and qualification of the firm’s personnel, staff and consultants.
The Selection Committee may reject all proposals and stop the selection process at any time. The construction manager shall have no ownership, entrepreneurial or financial affiliation with the selected architect/engineer involved with this project.
Firms desiring to provide construction management services for the project shall submit a letter of application and a completed Board of Trustees “Construction Management at Risk”. Proposals must not exceed 80 pages, including the Construction Management at Risk and letter of application. Pages should be numbered consecutively. Submittals, which do not comply with these requirements or do not include the requested data, will not be considered. No submittal information will be returned.
All applicants must be licensed to practice as general contractors in the State of Florida at the time of application. Corporations must be registered to operate in the State of Florida by the Department of State, Division of Corporations, at the time of application. As required by Section 287.133, FS, a construction management firm may not submit a proposal for this project if it is on the convicted vendor list for a public entity crime committed within the past 36 months. The selected construction management firm must warrant that it will neither utilize the services of, nor contract with, any supplier, subcontractor, or consultant in excess of $15,000.00 in connection with this project for a period of 36 months from the date of their being placed on the convicted vendor list.
The Board of Trustees Construction Management at Risk forms and the Project Fact Sheet may be obtained by contacting: Mr. Tom Mayo, Director of Facilities Planning, Florida Gulf Coast University, 10501 FGCU Blvd. South, Ft. Myers, Florida 33965-6565. PH: (239) 590-1500 FAX: (239) 590-1505
Five (5) bound copies of the required proposal data shall be submitted to: Mr. Tom Mayo, Director of Facilities Planning, Florida Gulf Coast University, 10501 FGCU Blvd. South, Fort Myers, Florida 33965-6565.
Submittals must be received in the Facilities Planning Office by 3:00 p.m. local time on
March 7, 2013. Facsimile (FAX) submittals are not acceptable and will not be considered.
