Agenda - 05-02-2017 - 6-d - Award of Design-Build Agreement – Sportsplex Field House Project

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2 On February 11, 2016 Orange County received eight responses to its Request for Qualifications ("RFQ") issued on January 14, 2016 for Design-Build services for the Sportsplex Field House in accordance with North Carolina Procurement Law regarding procurement of Design-Build services. A staff panel consisting of members from the Manager's Office, the Department of Environment, Agriculture, Parks & Recreation ("DEAPR"), the Sportsplex Management Staff, Finance & Administrative Services, and Asset Management Services evaluated presentations of selected firms and agreed to recommend the TA Loving Company to serve as the Design- Builder for this project. The responding firms were: Bobbitt Construction* Bordeaux-Boomerang Design* CT Wilson — Summit Design & Engineering Focus Design Builders TA Loving Company-CRA* Samet Corporation — SRS Resolute Building Company— LS3P J.M. Thompson-Apogee Group *firms selected to interview. The project program is developed as a collaborative partnership between the County and the Design-Build firm. The Design-Build firm has a design and construction component; the County will be contracting with one entity for the most efficient delivery of an engineered pre-fabricated steel field house structure. TA Loving will retain Corley, Redfoot Architects for the design services for the project. Through a pre-construction phase process, the County and TA Loving have developed a project developmental design and construction scope as well as the related the Guaranteed Maximum Price ("GMP"). Once authorized by the Board, this GMP becomes the basis of the Design-Build contract, which binds the Design-Builder to the agreed upon not-to-exceed price unless Orange County changes the scope of the project in some manner. The GMP will include appropriate contingency funds. Any un-allocated balance of these funds as well as savings resulting from identified value-engineering activity will be returned to the County. This method allows for significant, collaborative cost efficiencies with the full benefit of the Design-Build firm during the entire project to illuminate cost-benefit factors, appropriate value engineering, and leverage the competencies of the Design-Build firm in constructing pre-engineered steel structures on a construction site adjacent to an active, intensely use Sportsplex complex. The site has two small residential units on site that will be de-constructed as part of the project. One unit is not salvageable; however Asset Management and Housing, Human Relations and Community Development staff continue to analyze options with County affordable housing partners to potentially relocate and rehabilitate the second residential unit in order to keep it in the affordable housing inventory. Disposition of this housing unit would be confirmed prior to the start of construction.