Background
The City has operated 1111 East Broad Street (Jerry Hammond Center, "JHC") under a five-year Facility Management Agreement ("FMA") for professional building management services that expires on April 30, 2012. Use of professional management services has been highly effective in assisting the City in maintaining and operating the JHC at a high level of efficiency. The City desires to continue this high level of performance through a new FMA agreement to replace the expiring agreement. The City has operated the Franklin County Municipal Court (FCMC), under a "maintenance only" contract that also expires on April 30, 2012. In order to elevate the performance and efficiency of the FCMC, the City wishes to include the provision of professional building management services at the FCMC and combine both facilities under a single FMA agreement thereby providing greater efficiencies, economies, and coordination of functions and services. The Department of Finance and Management, Real Estate Management Office conducted research to identify potential professional building management firms of adequate size and experience including the vendors currently registered with the City. The Department of Finance and Management, Real Estate Management Office solicited formal proposals from qualified professional management companies to provide full building management and maintenance service to both the JHC and FCMC buildings through a Request For Proposals (Solicitation SA004241).
The RFP was posted on the City's Vendor Services website on January 20, 2012. A mandatory tour of the buildings was conducted for interested responders on January 27, 2012. RFP responses were due on February 9, 2012. The City received proposals from five (5) firms - CBRE Group, Inc., Continental Realty, Ltd., ISS Facility Services, NAI Ohio Equities, and Paradigm Properties of Ohio. The responses were reviewed by a five (5) member evaluation committee. Each proposal was evaluated, scored, ...
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