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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: May 21, 2019 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 8-d <br /> SUBJECT: Award of Emergency Services Stand-Alone Efland Station Professional <br /> Services Agreement <br /> DEPARTMENT: Asset Management Services <br /> ("AMS"), Finance and <br /> Administrative Services, <br /> Emergency Services (ES) <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Professional Services Agreement Angel Barnes, 919-245-2628 <br /> Dinah Jefferies, 919-245.6123 <br /> David Cannell, 919-245-2651 <br /> Travis Myren, 919-245-2308 <br /> PURPOSE: To: <br /> 1) Approve the County entering into a Professional Services Agreement with Stewart- <br /> Cooper-Newell Architecture of Gastonia, NC for the design and construction <br /> administration of the Emergency Services Stand-Alone Efland Station capital project <br /> upon final review of the County Attorney; and <br /> 2) Authorize the County Manager to execute the Agreement and to execute any subsequent <br /> design amendments for contingent and unforeseen design requirements up to the <br /> approved budget amount on behalf of the Board. <br /> BACKGROUND: On July 23, 2013 Orange County received responses to its Request for <br /> Qualifications ("RFQ") issued on July 1, 2013 for professional design services for the EMS <br /> Stations capital project in accordance with North Carolina Procurement Law and the Federal <br /> Mini-Brooks Act governing the selection and procurement of professional services firms. As <br /> stated within the RFQ, the design would be used for future construction of the project over the <br /> next 5-10 years. The design service is for a stand-alone station as outlined within the RFQ as <br /> one of the three prototypes. <br /> Since the time of the RFQ, the land for this stand-alone station has been purchased. The <br /> design scope for this project involves renovations to the newly purchased 4,260 square foot <br /> facility located at 3800 Highway 70, Efland, NC. The site and building components are <br /> contemplated to be designed from June 2019 through January 2020. This includes the building <br /> structural system being updated and revised to bring the renovated building up to the current <br /> structural code requirements as an Essential facility. This also includes the design of a roughly <br /> 60 kW roof top photovoltaic system. <br />