COMMERCIAL - GC
Division Coordinator
Matthew Barrows
University of Nebraska–Lincoln 120C Nebraska Hall Lincoln, NE 68588-0500 (402) 472-3742 |
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2022 PROBLEM STATEMENT |
Project DescriptionThe City of Gotham, Nebraska is seeing a qualified General Contractor or a Construction Manager for the construction of an estimated 5 – 10-million-dollar sales facility. This development is on a 12-acre site and includes a 38,000 SF pre-engineered metal building housing a service center, showroom, storage mezzanine, office spaces and other miscellaneous support spaces. Please note, the City of Gotham reserves the right to make the final contract selection based upon “Best Value” as determined by the client.
Firms will be evaluated on the completeness of the following items below.
Request for Qualification InformationThe City of Gotham is seeking requests for qualification from your company. These qualifications will be evaluated on the following.
The qualification package shall include, but not be limited to:
Qualification packages must be submitted electronically, via the Google Drive by 6pm on October 17, 2022. Your qualifications must be combined into a single PDF file that does not exceed the page limits set forth above. Any package that is submitted late or does not meet these requirements will be disqualified.
To obtain access to the Google Drive folder, each team must create a Gmail account that does not identify your school name/location, and email their information to Ascreg4commercial2@gmail.com. Please note that this email address will be used for all electronic communications during the competition. The RFQ response is limited to a total of 18 pages (not including the bonus section) with the bonus section limited to a maximum of 2 pages. The Letter of Transmittal does count towards the page restriction. Note: Information submitted in the Qualifications Package should not be repeated in the written proposal, unless specifically requested by the owner.
Qualifications will be graded prior to the start of the competition and judges’ comments will be provided to each company during the pre-bid conference.
Request for Proposal InformationThe RFP documents will be distributed to teams during a mandatory pre-bid conference held at 6:00AM CST on Monday, October 24th at 6:00AM. Final proposal deadline will be communicated at the pre-bid conference, however, both electronic and physical copies are to be submitted. Physical proposals shall be submitted in a hard binder, labeled, and tab divided. Electronic copies shall be submitted via the Google drive with a backup on a flash drive and submitted with the hard copy.
Firms will be evaluated on the completeness of the following items below.
Request for Qualification InformationThe City of Gotham is seeking requests for qualification from your company. These qualifications will be evaluated on the following.
The qualification package shall include, but not be limited to:
- Letter of Transmittal
- Table of Contents
- Cover Letter
- Company Information
- Mission Statement
- History
- Locations
- Services Provided
- Organizational Chart (Project Specific)
- Financials
- Key Personnel
- Resumes
- Safety Program
- EMR Scores
- TRIR
- Quality Management and Lean Program
- Relevant Experiences
- Current Projects
- Other relevant differentiating information
- Bonus Section
- Provide an overview and breakdown of your company’s preconstruction services and how that has provided benefit to previous clients and projects.
Qualification packages must be submitted electronically, via the Google Drive by 6pm on October 17, 2022. Your qualifications must be combined into a single PDF file that does not exceed the page limits set forth above. Any package that is submitted late or does not meet these requirements will be disqualified.
To obtain access to the Google Drive folder, each team must create a Gmail account that does not identify your school name/location, and email their information to Ascreg4commercial2@gmail.com. Please note that this email address will be used for all electronic communications during the competition. The RFQ response is limited to a total of 18 pages (not including the bonus section) with the bonus section limited to a maximum of 2 pages. The Letter of Transmittal does count towards the page restriction. Note: Information submitted in the Qualifications Package should not be repeated in the written proposal, unless specifically requested by the owner.
Qualifications will be graded prior to the start of the competition and judges’ comments will be provided to each company during the pre-bid conference.
Request for Proposal InformationThe RFP documents will be distributed to teams during a mandatory pre-bid conference held at 6:00AM CST on Monday, October 24th at 6:00AM. Final proposal deadline will be communicated at the pre-bid conference, however, both electronic and physical copies are to be submitted. Physical proposals shall be submitted in a hard binder, labeled, and tab divided. Electronic copies shall be submitted via the Google drive with a backup on a flash drive and submitted with the hard copy.
COMMERCIAL SCORING
ASC Region IV GRADING COMPUTATION SHEETS
Division: Commercial Building
Qualifications Package pts out of 20 Points
Oral Presentation pts out of 25 Points
Proposal pts out of 45 Points
Professionalism/Other pts out of 10 Points
Note: The total must not Exceed 100 Points.TOTAL SCORE: Points
2. THE ORAL PRESENTATION 25 POINTS
Some items to consider when preparing your presentation:
3. WRITTEN PROPOSAL 45 POINTS
Overall presentation of the written proposal (5 POINTS TOTAL):
4. PROFESSIONALISM/OTHER 10 POINTS
Here is where the judges must consider anything that deserves to be considered and which has not specifically been considered above. (Note: additional positive weighting may be applied for exceptional performance in each area or for overall presentation. Additional negative weighting may be applied for failure to respond to owner's requests/needs, inconsistencies, or for overall presentation.)
Division: Commercial Building
Qualifications Package pts out of 20 Points
Oral Presentation pts out of 25 Points
Proposal pts out of 45 Points
Professionalism/Other pts out of 10 Points
Note: The total must not Exceed 100 Points.TOTAL SCORE: Points
- Qualifications Package Requirements 20 Points
- Requested (fictitious) information will be used to evaluate if your company (team) is qualified and capable of addressing the detailed problem.
- The RFQ is used to simulate the "short listing" process in which only those most qualified will be allowed to continue in the bidding, proposing, or negotiating process.
- Assume you have not worked directly or indirectly with this owner before.
- This is your first opportunity to impress the owner.
- The quality and content of the RFQ can often set a precedence of how the owner will view later submissions. How do you want the owner to view your company before they meet you?
2. THE ORAL PRESENTATION 25 POINTS
Some items to consider when preparing your presentation:
- Each speaker will be evaluated based on:
- Quality of voice (Projection).
- Visual contact.
- Confidence while speaking.
- Free from distractions?
- Speak for a minimum of 2 min (Only 5 students need to meet this requirement).
- Knowledge of subject.
- Presents on topic that relates to role?
- PowerPoint will be evaluated based on organization, appearance, and content.
- Present the judges with the requested 1 page handout with pictures and project roles?
- Does the voluntary hand out add to, clarify, and is consistent with the Oral Presentation?
- How well was the material presented (as opposed to the content of what was presented)?
- Bonus points can be awarded for creativity, exceptional performance, or overall professionalism.
3. WRITTEN PROPOSAL 45 POINTS
Overall presentation of the written proposal (5 POINTS TOTAL):
- Electronic copy submitted as one complete PDF?
- All required sections provided?
- Correct Spelling and Grammar?
- Quality of graphics?
- Does it look professional?
- Exceed page limits?
- Were comments from the RFQ incorporated?
- Bid Estimate:
- All items accounted for?
- Reasonable contingency, overhead, and fee?
- Consistent with Owner/Contract requirements?
- Overall estimate.
- Cash Flow Projections:
- Reflect appropriate duration and budget?
- Does it give the owner adequate information to finalize monthly funding requirements?
- Easy to read, follow, and evaluate?
- Enough detail to provide an evaluation of the accuracy and credibility of the schedule?
- Identify critical work items?
- Include milestones activities as required?
- Is the schedule organized and logical?
- Reasonable durations for activities?
- In agreement with bidding documents and proposed construction methods?
- Project specific?
- Redundant information from qualifications package?
- Lock Out Tag Out plan.
- Severe weather evacuation plan.
- Identify potential safety concerns.
- Plans for site security, equipment safety, or traffic issues.
- Project specific?
- Redundant information from qualifications package?
- Identify potential quality concerns.
- Identify which scopes will require mock ups or special inspections.
- Strategies to reduce points of failure.
- Identify possible scopes that could utilize pre-fabrication.
- Site/Project specific?
- Redundant information from qualifications package?
- Marked up plan.
- Identify major required equipment.
4. PROFESSIONALISM/OTHER 10 POINTS
Here is where the judges must consider anything that deserves to be considered and which has not specifically been considered above. (Note: additional positive weighting may be applied for exceptional performance in each area or for overall presentation. Additional negative weighting may be applied for failure to respond to owner's requests/needs, inconsistencies, or for overall presentation.)