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Bid Award - Historic Gainesville Depot Building Rehabilitation (B)
This item involves a request for the City Commission to authorize the bid award to West Construction, Inc. for the Historic Gainesville Depot Building Rehabilitation project in the amount of $1,650,000.
Explanation
The Historic Gainesville Depot Building Rehabilitation project includes the rehabilitation and installation of utilities to a 10,200 sq ft wood frame building listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The building is to comply with the Secretary of Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties and to become a model of historic preservation, adaptive reuse, and sustainability. The project is seeking LEED Gold certification from the United States Green Building Council (USGBC). Originally constructed in 1860, with significant additions in 1910, the Gainesville Depot is an important resource that reflects the history of the railroad as it relates to Florida's growth in general and Gainesville in particular. Once completed, the building will frame the main entrance and become an important amenity for future Depot Park and downtown Gainesville.
On March 22, 2011, the City's Purchasing Department solicited bids for the Historic Gainesville Depot Building Rehabilitation. Bid qualification submittals and price proposals were due to the City's Purchasing Department in two separate sealed envelopes on May 4, 2011. A total of four (4) firms responded to the bid solicitation. A team comprised of City staff and the architect of record for the project (as the subject matter expert) reviewed the qualification submittals to determine which teams were responsive and qualified to work on a project of this size and scope with respect to previous experience working on historic properties and LEED projects. The following firms were deemed qualified: PPI/Charles Perry Construction, LLC, West Construction, Inc. and SEMCO Construction, Inc. The price proposal submi...
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