Agenda - 01-23-2018 8-h - Referral of Design Teams for Consideration by the Carrboro Board of Aldermen for the 203 S. Greensboro Orange County Southern Branch Library Project

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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: January 23, 2018 Action Agenda Item No. 8 -h 1 SUBJECT: Referral of Design Teams for Consideration by the Carrboro Board of Aldermen for the 203 S. Greensboro /Orange Countv Southern Branch Library Proiect DEPARTMENT: County Manager, Asset Management Services ( "AMS ") ATTACHMENT(S): Executed Development Agreement INFORMATION CONTACT: Bonnie Hammersley, 919 - 245 -2306 Jeff Thompson, 919 - 245 -2658 PURPOSE: To refer CRA Associates /JSA Architect Joint Venture of Chapel Hill /Carrboro, NC, and Perkins + Will of Durham, NC to the Carrboro Board of Aldermen for a final selection for the architectural and engineering professional services firm for the 203 S. Greensboro /Orange County Southern Branch Library project. BACKGROUND: On December 4, 2017, the attached Development Agreement guiding the development of the 203 S. Greensboro property was formally executed by the Orange County Manager and the Carrboro Town Manager. The initial task of the partnership is to solicit and select a qualified professional architectural and engineering firm to provide design and construction administration services for the project. Carrboro, as the owner of the property and the fiscal agent for the partnership, received eight responses to its Request for Qualifications ( "RFQ ") on December 5, 2017 for professional design services for the 203 South Greensboro capital project in accordance with North Carolina Procurement Law and the Federal Mini - Brooks Act governing the selection and procurement of professional services firms. The site and building components are contemplated to be designed and constructed from March 2018 through the fall of 2020. A six person Orange County and Carrboro staff panel, consisting of the Orange County Library Director, the Orange County and Carrboro Planning Directors, the Carrboro Director of Recreation and Parks, the Carrboro Purchasing Manager, and the Orange County Asset Management Services Director, evaluated eight written RFQ responses and selected five of the firms to interview on January 11 and 12, 2018: As defined by the process outlined in the Development Agreement, the staff panel selected CRA Associates /JSA Architects Joint Venture and Perkins + Will to be considered by the Board of Orange County Commissioners to potentially be referred to the Carrboro Board of Aldermen (BOA) for the final selection of the preferred firm. This selection was based upon the firms' experience with similar projects, their vision and demonstrated success with such projects, their portfolio of work, and the interview with staff.