NOTICE TO DESIGN-BUILDERS
REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS
RFQ #07-10
The University of North Florida Board of Trustees, a public body corporate, is soliciting qualifications from design-build firms to provide complete design-build services for the development of UNF’s Eastern Ridge of approximately 27 acres, inclusive of all necessary site infrastructures to support a 1,000 bed residential facility and associated amenities and a future expansion of 1,000 beds.
Project Description: The scope of this project will include, but is not limited to, the following design and construction activities:
A new roadway of approximately 3,500 linear feet with lighting, bike lanes, sidewalks, storm drainage and retention ponds, a new driveway entrance to Kernan Boulevard, and utility infrastructure (including natural gas, water, sewer, re-use services and power). The utility infrastructure is to also include piping for chilled and hot water to the buildings from a new modular central plant that will be designed to accommodate the first phase of housing, but that can be expanded for future development on the
Site development associated with this project would include parking lots for 1,000 cars, parking lot lighting, landscaping and sidewalks. A 20 foot wide pedestrian walkway bridge extending approximately 1,000 linear feet across wetlands leading to the campus is also included in this project.
The Residential facility component consists of 1,000 student housing beds arranged in both four (4) and six (6) bedroom, two-bath suites, Resident Assistant rooms, guest apartments, Area Coordinator apartments, student support spaces (including laundry facilities, common lounges, common kitchens, study areas, and related program spaces) and site development. It is the University’s intent to have these beds be in a single building, to include the 1,000 student beds, 20 Resident Assistant beds, 4 guest apartments, and two Area Coordinator apartments. The new building can be up to six (6) stories in height and shall have one point of entry control.
Additional amenities in the complex include: multi-purpose rooms, an exercise room, game room, and a convenience store with a snack bar and grill. Site amenities shall include: a recreational swimming pool and deck, lighted tennis and basketball court(s), sand volley ball courts, a running track, picnic areas, and large playing/recreation fields.
Firms desiring to provide design-build services for the project shall submit a letter of application and a completed Design-Build Qualifications Supplement (DBQS) form. Submittals shall not exceed 80 pages, including the DBQS form and letter of application. Submittals which do not include the requested data specified in the DBQS form will not be considered. No submittal material will be returned.
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