NOTICE 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-1051, Project and Location: South Student Housing,
Currently, all student housing and related recreational facilities are located near the north end of the campus with the area reaching its maximum for this use. Accordingly, as the student population grows and the need for additional student housing also grows. The next area for student housing soon to be developed will be the south area of the campus. In summary, the first phase of the south student housing will include the following projects with separate Guaranteed Maximum Prices: site work, roads and parking, a bridge, utilities, a central energy plant, a central dining hall and recreational playfields. At sometime in the near future, low-rise student housing buildings will be included as part of this project.
The site has been conceptually permitted with both the Corps of Engineers and South Florida Water Management District. This project will have to modify an existing construction and operation permit issued by the South Florida Water Management District.
The total construction budget is $10,000,000.
The contract for construction management services shall consist of two phases. Phase one of the contract is for pre-construction services for which the construction manager will be paid a fixed fee. Phase one services include value engineering, constructability analysis, development of a cost model, estimating, and the development of a Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP) at 100% Construction Document phase will be required for individual projects as noted above. If the GMP is accepted, phase two, the construction phase, may be implemented. In phase two of the contract, the construction manager shall become the single point of responsibility for performance of the construction contract for the project and shall publicly bid trade contracts. Failure to negotiate an acceptable fixed fee for phase one of the contract, or to arrive at an acceptable GMP within the time provided in the agreement may result in the termination of the construction managers contract.
Selection will be made on the basis of construction managers 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 firms 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 Regents 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 general contractors in the State of
The Board of Regents Construction Manager Qualifications Supplement forms and the Project Fact Sheet may be obtained by contacting: Mr. Jack Fenwick, Director of Facilities Planning,
Five (5) bound copies of the required proposal data shall be submitted to: Mr. Jack Fenwick, Director of Facilities Planning,
Submittals must be received in the Facilities Planning Office by 2:00 p.m. local time on July 17, 2006. Facsimile (FAX) submittals are not acceptable and will not be considered.
