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2 <br /> engineering services must be performed by licensed architects and engineers, and contracting <br /> services must be performed by a licensed general contractor and, therefore, the design-builder <br /> is required to certify that each licensed designer and sub-consultant who is a member of the <br /> design-build team was selected based on "demonstrated competence and qualifications" under <br /> the qualifications-based selection process of the Mini-Brooks Act (NCGS 143-64.31). <br /> The enabling legislation requires that the use of the Design-Build delivery method be governed <br /> by a set of criteria established by the Board of County Commissioners. Once the criteria are <br /> adopted, the Manager or her designee may employ the criteria to develop projects using this <br /> design-build delivery method. <br /> The recommended criteria, located in Attachment 1, are as follows. <br /> 1. The project is well defined, including qualitative and quantitative characteristics, and <br /> possesses one or more unique element that would benefit from the design-build delivery <br /> method; <br /> 2. The project timeline is an important factor in making the facility operational within a short <br /> timeframe so as not to excessively burden County operations; <br /> 3. The County has experienced staff and adequate resources to assure that a high quality <br /> project can be delivered within the budget appropriated by the Board of Orange County <br /> Commissioners; <br /> 4. There a maximum budget that must be adhered to in order to allow negotiations and <br /> flexibility to make appropriate decisions on scope as the project progresses; <br /> 5. It will be necessary to have partial occupancy of a portion of the facility and/or site while <br /> the project construction is ongoing; <br /> 6. The project requires good-faith efforts to comply with historically underutilized business <br /> participation requirements (NCGS 143-128.2, NCGS 143-128.4), and to recruit and select <br /> small business entities; and <br /> 7. As a result of a more integrated, fluid and flexible delivery process, the design-build <br /> delivery method meets the operational goals established for the facility, the desired level <br /> of quality of the finished product, and is a comparatively more desirable delivery method <br /> over traditional construction and bidding methods. <br /> Should the Board adopt the criteria, staff intends using this delivery method for the development <br /> of the Orange County Sportsplex Field House. This project delivery method meets the <br /> proposed criteria and is desirable for the Sportsplex Field House project for the following <br /> reasons: <br /> 1) the estimated 50,000 square foot field house is contemplated to be a large, clear-span, <br /> pre-engineering steel structure typically fabricated and constructed by firms <br /> specializing in design-build delivery methods; <br /> 2) the method would allow an efficient project and budget management structure since <br /> the facility is large and will integrate into the existing Sportsplex operation; <br /> 3) the Sportsplex will continue to operate during construction and would benefit from a <br /> more efficient and shorter construction timeframe; and <br /> 4) the method would allow a thorough cost-benefit and operating efficiency analysis of <br /> potentially placing the Sportsplex pool mezzanine functions (currently in schematic <br />