Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Finance and Management Director to enter into a contract on behalf of the Office of Construction Management with Prime Engineering for professional architectural and engineering services for the Groves Road building renovation, 4252 Groves Road.
The goal of this project is to renovate this recently acquired warehouse facility to meet the operational needs of various departments throughout the City. This contract will authorize professional engineering, architectural and planning services to properly plan for the physical consolidation of various City Departments into this location to better serve the needs of the City and to create operational efficiencies. Services will include architectural and engineering design, site condition assessments, master planning, space programming and construction oversight.
A number of City Departments are being reviewed for relocation to this warehouse facility; however, as the space planning process continues other departmental functions may be possible. The Departments and functions identified at this time are:
· Public Safety - Support Services, including Weights and Measures and Licensing, Fire Storage Warehouse, Support Services, and the Police Dive Team;
· Public Service - Refuse Alum Creek Station, Refuse Container Management, Planning and Operations Marion Road Outpost;
· Finance and Management - Facilities Management, and the Fleet Management vehicle sales lot; and
· Development - Environmental Blight Abatement.
Requests for Statement of Qualifications were available on October 25, 2011, and submitted on November 30, 2011. The City received eighteen proposals (^3 AS1, 0 FBE, *2 MBE,): O&S Associates, Inc., J. L. Bender Architect & Planners, *HKI Associates, Inc., DLZ Architecture, Inc., Schorr Architects, Inc., Harris Architects, Design Group, Inc., *Moody-Nolan, Braun &Steidl Architects, Inc., ^Prime Engineering, Inc., ^Kabil Associate, Inc...
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