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Design and Construction of the One Stop Homeless Assistance Center (B)
This is a request for the City Commission to approve staff's recommended ranking of the Design Build firms for the Design and Construction of the One Stop Homeless Assistance Center.
Explanation
The One Stop Homeless Assistance Center (Center) is a major goal within the GRACE Market Place Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness. The City of Gainesville and the Alachua County Board of County Commissioners have committed to provide technical and financial resources to end homelessness in the City of Gainesville and Alachua County.
On April 1, 2010, the City began a major step in the fulfillment of this goal by releasing a Request for Proposal (RFP) to hire a qualified Design Build Firm to plan, design and construct the Center which will be built on the site located at the 800 Block of NW 53rd Avenue. A Pre Bid Proposal Conference was held April 15, 2010, and the City's Purchasing Division received four (4) responsive proposals from design/build partnerships for the design and construction of the Center on May 6, 2010. An evaluation team consisting of City and County staff evaluated the qualifications and proposals of the firms, and is recommending the following ranking of the firms:
1) Charles Perry Construction, Inc.
2) M.M. Parrish Construction, Inc.
2) Scherer Construction of North Florida, LLC
4) Joyner Construction, Inc.
If a contract cannot be negotiated with the first firm, the City will exercise a tie breaker pursuant to Financial Services Procedures #41-530, and then negotiation will continue down the list in the ranked order until a contract is negotiated and can be executed.
In negotiating a contract with a firm, the City will disclose that there are several prerequisite steps in the process that must be completed before construction can start, e.g., the land use change, the plat process, and site plan approval, as well as the acquisition of the propert...
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