Notice of Bid/Request for Proposal

NOTICE TO CONSTRUCTION MANAGERS

Florida Gulf Coast University Board of Trustees, announces that Construction Management Services will be required for the project listed below:

Project No. BR-1048, Project and Location: Engineering Building, Florida Gulf Coast University, Ft. Myers, Florida.

Florida Gulf Coast University began as a dream for a new university located in southwestern Florida. “The Tenth University” began with a strong commitment to technology and innovation, with an environmental focus.

Currently, the offices and classrooms for the Engineering Program are located in various buildings on the FGCU campus. Accordingly, this new building will provide laboratory/lecture classrooms, administration and faculty offices and research spaces in one building for civil engineering, environmental engineering and bioengineering. Additional areas of the building will be utilized as design studios, computer labs and a small workshop.

In general, the building will be approximately 70,000 gross square feet and will be three stories in height. The design of the building will be complimentary to other campus buildings, and yet have a distinct character and appearance of its own.

The site has been conceptually permitted with both the Corps of Engineers and South Florida Water Management District. This project will have to modify an existing construction and operation permit issued by the South Florida Water Management District.

The total project budget is $17,500,000 and construction budget is $14,000,000.

The contract for construction management services shall consist of two phases. Phase one of the contract is for pre-construction services for which the construction manager will be paid a fixed fee. Phase one services include value engineering, constructability analysis, development of a cost model, estimating, and the development of a Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP) at 50% Construction Document phase. If the GMP is accepted, phase two, the construction phase, may be implemented. In phase two of the contract, the construction manager shall become the single point of responsibility for performance of the construction contract for the project and shall publicly bid trade contracts. Failure to negotiate an acceptable fixed fee for phase one of the contract, or to arrive at an acceptable GMP within the time provided in the agreement may result in the termination of the construction manager’s contract.

Selection will be made on the basis of construction manager’s qualifications, including experience and ability; past experience; bonding capacity; record-keeping/administrative ability, critical path scheduling expertise; cost estimating; cost control ability; quality control capability and qualification of the firm's personnel, staff and consultants.

The Selection Committee may reject all proposals and stop the selection process at any time. The construction manager shall have no ownership, entrepreneurial or financial affiliation with the selected architect/engineer involved with this project.

Firms desiring to provide construction management services for the project shall submit a letter of application and a completed Board of Regents “Construction Manager Qualifications Supplement”. Proposals must not exceed 80 pages, including the Construction Manager Qualifications Supplement and letter of application. Pages should be numbered consecutively. Submittals, which do not comply with these requirements or do not include the requested data, will not be considered. No submittal information will be returned.

All applicants must be licensed to practice as general contractors in the State of Florida at the time of application. Corporations must be registered to operate in the State of Florida by the Department of State, Division of Corporations, at the time of application. As required by Section 287.133, F.S., a construction management 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 construction management 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.

The Board of Regents Construction Manager Qualifications Supplement forms and the Project Fact Sheet may be obtained by contacting: Mr. Jack Fenwick, Director of Facilities Planning, Florida Gulf Coast University, 10501 FGCU Blvd. South, Ft. Myers, Florida 33965-6565, (239)590-1500, (239)590-1505 Fax.

Five (5) bound copies of the required proposal data shall be submitted to: Mr. Jack Fenwick, Director of Facilities Planning, Florida Gulf Coast University, 10501 FGCU Blvd., South, Ft. Myers, Florida 33965-6565.

Submittals must be received in the Facilities Planning Office by 2:00 p.m. local time, on March 13, 2006. Facsimile (FAX) submittals are not acceptable and will not be considered.