NOTICE TO PROFESSIONAL CONSULTANTS

The Florida International University Board of Trustees announces that Professional Services in the discipline of Architecture and Planning will be required for the project listed below:

Project Name and Number: Academic Health Sciences Center Master Planning Initiative.

Project Location: This facility will be located at Florida International University, University Park.

Project Description: The Academic Health Sciences Center Master, Florida International University, Miami, Florida. Florida International University has received approval for a new Health Sciences initiative which will be located in Miami-Dade County. Based on this approval, the University is undertaking the mission of planning its Academic Health Center at University Park Campus site. The University is currently seeking a planning consultant to the University in the planning and integration methodologies of incorporating the development of a Medical Sciences Complex that will include a number of interrelated facilities within the boundaries of the University Park Campus.

The selected firm will provide professional services in campus planning and programming, within a designated area of the campus Blanket professional liability insurance will be required in the amount of $1,000,000 and will be provided as a part of Basic Services.

INSTRUCTIONS:

Firms and Joint Ventures desiring to apply for consideration shall submit a letter of application.

The letter of application should have attached:

1.     A completed (former Board of Regents) “Professional Qualifications Supplement (SUSPQS),” dated September 1999. Applications on any other form will not be considered. The MBE point scale in the PQS is no longer used. Disregard paragraph 4 on page 2 of the instructions.

2.     A copy of the applicant’s current Professional Registration Certificate from the appropriate governing board.

An applicant must be properly registered at the time of application to practice its profession in the State of Florida. If the applicant is a corporation, it must be properly chartered by the Florida Department of State to operate in Florida.

Submit seven (7) copies of the above requested data bound in the order listed above. Applications that do not comply with the above instructions will not be considered. State of Florida Minority Business Enterprise certification is no longer requested. Application material will not be returned.

The plans and specifications for A/E projects are subject to reuse in accordance with the provisions of Section 287.055, Florida Statutes. As required by Section 287.133, Florida Statutes, a 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 firm must warrant that it will neither utilize the services of, nor contract with, any supplier, subcontractor, or consultant in excess of $15,000.00 in connection with this project for a period of 36 months from the date of their being placed on the convicted vendor list.

Professional Qualifications Supplement forms (Architect/Engineer Selection CM-N-06.03-09/99) and the Project Fact Sheet may be obtained on-line at http://facilities.fiu.edu/fpc.htm Requests for meetings by individual firms will not be granted.

Submit qualifications to: Selection Committee, Florida International University, Facilities Planning, Campus Support Complex, Room 236, University Park, Miami, Florida 33199, by 2:00 p.m. (local time), on Friday, March 16, 2007. Late submittals shall be disqualified. Facsimile (FAX) submittals are not acceptable and will not be considered.