Department of Education, Florida State University

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Florida State University

Notice to Construction Managers

Florida State University announces that construction management services will be required for the project listed below:

Project No.: FS – 233

Renovations to the 1st DCA for the College of Law

Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida

This project consists of renovating the existing 1st District Court of Appeal Building for use by FSU’s College of Law. The building contains approximately 51,000 gsf. The historic courtroom and the adjacent commons space are to be preserved. The majority of the interior partitions will be demolished and spaces re-designed to meet the programmatic needs of the College. It is expected that the selected Construction Manager will be under contract in early September 2010, with an emphasis on getting shop drawings approved and materials ordered. Until the date for the Court’s move into its new building is established, the best estimate is that the successful firm would start construction sometime in January 2011 and that substantial completion would be mid-November 2011.

The project budget is $13,550,000 of which the construction budget is approximately $10,200,000. This project is subject to a Legislative appropriation effective July 2010.

The University reserves the right to use the selected CM to perform additional construction and/or renovation relating to this project at the existing College of Law or the 1st DCA site.

The contract for construction management services will include value engineering, constructability analyses, development of a cost model, estimating, and the development of a Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP) at the 100% Construction Document phase if the GMP is accepted, the construction phase will be implemented. In construction, the construction manager becomes the single point of responsibility for performance of the construction of the project and shall publicly bid trade contracts, encouraging the inclusion of Small and/or Minority Owned Business Enterprises. Failure to negotiate an acceptable GMP within the time provided in the agreement may result in the termination of the construction manager’s contract.

Selection of finalists for interviews will be made on the basis of construction manager 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 qualifications of the firm’s personnel, staff and consultants. Finalists will be provided with a copy of the building program and the latest documentation prepared by the project architect/engineer, a description of the final interview requirements and a copy of the standard Florida State University’s construction management agreement. 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.

Instructions:

Firms desiring to provide construction management services for the project shall submit a letter of application and the completed Florida State University “Construction Manager Qualifications Supplement.” Proposals must not exceed 80 pages, including the Construction Manager Qualifications Supplement and letter of application. Pages must be numbered consecutively. Submittals which do not comply with these requirements or do not include the requested data may not be considered. No submittal material 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, Florida Statutes, 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 $75,000.00 in connection with this project for a period of 36 months from the date of their being placed on the convicted vendor list.

The Florida State University Construction Manager Qualifications Supplement forms and the Project Fact Sheet may be obtained through the website at www.fpc.fsu.edu or by contacting:

Lynetta Mills, Facilities Design & Construction, 109 Mendenhall Maintenance Building A, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306-4152, [phone] telephone, [phone] facsimile.

For further information on the project, contact: Daryl Ellison, Project Manager, at the address above, through email: [e-mail] or at [phone].

Submit five (5) bound copies of the required proposal data. Submittals must be received at the address listed above by 2:00 p.m. (Local Time), Wednesday, July 7, 2010 Facsimile (FAX) or electronic submittals are not acceptable and will not be considered.