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Central Utility Plant to Support the New Shands Hospital Complex (B)
GRU has been selected by Shands Teaching Hospital and Clinics, Inc. (Shands) to design, finance, construct, own and operate a central utility plant on a portion of the new Shands medical complex. The Central Utility Plant (CUP) will efficiently provide chilled water, process steam, emergency and standby power generation, and medical gases to serve the first hospital tower and will be expanded to serve future phases of the project. Staff recommends approval of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Shands to allow design and equipment procurement to proceed, authorize funding for GRU’s Engineer, Procure, Construct, (EPC) contractor to provide design services, and to authorize the Interim General Manager to negotiate and execute final agreements and procurement contracts to complete the project.
Explanation
Shands is developing a new hospital complex south of its existing facility on Archer Road. The Utility responded to a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) / Request for Proposals (RFP) issued by Shands for a long-term agreement to become the utility provider, to design, finance, construct, own, operate and maintain a CUP plant on a portion of the new Shands campus for a 50 year term. The proposed CUP will provide emergency/stand-by power, chilled water, steam, and facilities for medical gases to support Shands’ currently proposed and anticipated future expansions on the new hospital complex campus. The services required by this agreement are anticipated to be required by the end of 2008.
On August 29, 2006, the Commission awarded a contract to Burns & McDonnell for EPC engineering services for Phase 1, which included preliminary design development and proposal development services in an amount not-to-exceed $250,000. Those services included preliminary design sufficient to develop cost estimates for several project alternatives and assisting in the development of pricing strate...
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