THE PURCHASING DIVISION AND THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT/CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT DIVISION RECOMMEND APPROVAL OF THE ABOVE MOTION.
The Office of Economic and Small Business Development (OESBD) established a County Business Enterprise participation goal of 25% for this project. The OESBD determined that this project is not subject to the Workforce Investment Program (Exhibit 2).
The purpose of this solicitation is to engage the services of two professional architectural firms or architectural/engineering firms (consultants), authorized by Chapter 481 Florida Statutes, to provide comprehensive professional architectural and engineering services on a continuing term basis for reports and studies. Pursuant to Chapter 287.055 Florida Statutes, Broward County intends to select two consultants to provide continuing term study activities on a work authorization basis, for which the fee for each study activity does not exceed $200,000. Work authorizations shall not exceed a total of $500,000 for any one year for each continuing contract.
Consultants may be tasked to provide comprehensive research, study, analysis and related administrative services on either a specific project or non-specific basis. Services may include conducting and preparing documentation studies, investigations, and assessments. These activities may include general investigative or exploratory reports concerning sites, buildings, infrastructure and other facilities or portions thereof; feasibility studies; existing facility and site documentation; budget development and forecasting; design and construction market analysis, facility assessments and evaluations; alternative site selection analysis; schedule development and analysis; fire rated assembly and protection systems analysis, building and zoning code analysis and investigations; bid/award analysis; negotiation support; inspections, testing and analysis, post-occupancy evaluations and studies; forensic studies; independent claims support and other similar miscellaneous study activities.
Consultants shall provide all engineering, landscape architectural, interior design or specialty consultant support (through either in-house or sub-consultant firms) as required to complete an assigned report or study activity. Project specific services may also include project team facilitation and support; hurricane/disaster preparedness and recovery assistance; project status reporting and performance/compliance reporting.
The Request for Proposals (RFP) method of procurement was selected for this project to best serve the County with additional evaluation criteria other than price alone. The RFP method provides for predefined evaluation criteria for ranking of firms based upon the required specialized technical expertise. Proposers are required to determine the best method to accomplish the specialized services.
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