Notice to Construction Managers
NOTICE TO CONSTRUCTION MANAGERS
Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation announces that Construction Management Services will be required for the project listed below:
Project and Location: Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Florida Gulf Coast University, Lee County, Florida
Description of Project
This project will support the FGCU Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation program and will include such spaces as Student Incubator, Maker Space, classrooms, labs and associated offices with a total area of approximately 27,000 gross square feet. The total project budget is approximately $8,000,000. The selected firm will provide pre-construction and construction management services.
Project Context
The project is located on FGCU campus, immediately adjacent to and east of the FGCU (“Little Eagles”) Family Resource Center.
Selection of Firm
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 Manager Qualifications Supplement”. Proposals must not exceed 80 pages, including the Construction Manager Qualifications Supplement 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 a general contractor 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.
Instructions
Firms desiring to apply for consideration shall submit a letter of application.
The letter of application should have the following attached:
1. A completed Florida Gulf Coast University “Professional Qualifications Supplement” dated February 2013, and following the instructions provided at http://www.fgcu.edu/Facilities/ProfessionalSupplements.html
2. Applications on any other form will not be considered, however, you may choose the electronic “fillable” DOC version or the PDF version of this form.
3. A copy of the applicant’s current Professional Registration Certificate from the appropriate governing board. An applicant must be properly registered at the time of application to practice its profession in the State of Florida. If the applicant is a corporation, it must be chartered by the Florida Department of State to operate in Florida.
Submit five (5) hard bound copies of the above requested data and as specifically bound in the order listed above and an electronic copy in PDF file format on a USB flash drive or compact disk. Applications, which do not comply with the above instructions, may be disqualified. Application materials will not be returned. As required by Section 287.133, Florida Statutes, a consultant 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 Manager must warrant that it will neither utilize the services of, nor contract with, any supplier, subcontract, 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.
Professional Qualifications Supplement forms may be obtained as noted above. Any questions may be directed to:
Tom Mayo, Director of Facilities Planning, 10501 FGCU Blvd. South, Fort Myers, Florida 33965-6565,
Phone: (239)590-1500 or by e-mail: tmayo@fgcu.edu.
Submittals must be received in the Facilities Planning Office, by 3:00 p.m. local time, on November 13, 2019. Facsimile (FAX) submittals are not acceptable and will not be considered.
