OTHER AGENCIES AND ORGANIZATIONS
Sarasota County Public Hospital Board
REQUEST FOR STATEMENTS OF QUALIFICATIONS
for ARCHITECTURAL AND ENGINEERING SERVICES
The Sarasota County Public Hospital Board of Sarasota, Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Sarasota County, Florida (“the Hospital”) is accepting statements of qualifications from Architectural/Engineering Consulting Firms under the provisions of the Consultants’ Competitive Negotiation Act, Section 287.055; Florida Statutes. The scope of work may include programming, schematic design, design development, construction documents, and construction administration for all architectural, interior design, civil, site work, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection and structural design work for the simultaneous design of two 20,000-square-foot acute care nursing units, and associated enabling scope of work, located on the ninth and tenth floors of a 10-story bed tower located at 1700 S. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL 34239. Services required may include architectural design, civil, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing, fire protection and structural design and engineering, and construction administration. Firms interested in being considered as candidates are required to submit five bound statements of qualifications that include at least the following data, to be organized in the following order:
1.A copy of Florida design licensure and corporate registration certificates.
2.Proof of General and Professional Liability Insurability.
3.A separate statement as to whether the firm is a certified Minority Business Enterprise. If your firm claims MBE, WMBE status, a copy of your firm’s current, valid MBE, WMBE certificate is required as part of the submission package.
4.Proposed design team to include individual resumes with relevant acute care nursing unit design experience.
5.A list of at least five client references consisting of name, title, address, telephone number and project name(s) for each project specified. All references are called. Please ensure your references are updated and willing to reply.
6.The firms’ past design experience renovating existing acute care nursing units within an occupied acute care bed tower.
7.Design and permitting experience with all applicable local and state reviewing agencies.
8.Location of the design firm’s main office.
All interested firms are further informed as follows:
1.The Hospital reserves the right to reject any or all submittals at any time during this process.
2.The basis for selecting candidates includes, but is not limited to, the firm’s experience with local regulatory agency having jurisdiction, consideration of related project experience, qualifications of proposed team, design criteria experience as stated above, ability to respond, and project approach.
3.The Hospital reserves the right to request additional information beyond the data set forth above.
4.Questions regarding submissions shall be directed only to: Thomas Perigo, (941)917-1804.
Submissions shall be titled
Statement of Qualifications
for
ARCHITECTURAL AND ENGINEERING SERVICES
The Sarasota Memorial Hospital
East Tower Acute Care Unit Renovations
5.Submittals must be received by the Hospital no later than 3:30 p.m. Thursday, March 23, 2017. Submit statements to: Thomas Perigo, Director of Architecture and Construction, 1515 S. Osprey Avenue, Building A, Sarasota, FL 34239. Submittals received after this deadline will remain unopened and available for pick up.
6.Only Thomas Perigo shall be contacted with regard to this Request. No other SMH staff, administrators, or board members shall be contacted. Failure to comply could result in immediate disqualification at the discretion of the Director of Architecture and Construction.
7.Interested persons should contact: Thomas Perigo, (941)917-1804 with any project-related questions.
8.The selection committee will meet in a public meeting in Sarasota Memorial Hospital’s Waldemere Auditorium, 1700 S. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL 34239, first floor, on Tuesday, March 28, 2017 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., to discuss and announce the top three ranked firms with whom the Hospital will subsequently engage in contract negotiations. All interested parties are invited to attend.
