Package Number: ST-0037-A01
School District: Trenton
Package Name: Trenton Early Childhood Center
Construction Cost Estimate (for information purposes only): $9,000,000

Prime Discipline: Architecture

Complete design and construction admistration services for a new 40,000 square foot Early Childhood Center.

In order to be included in the selection process, a firm must be prequalified by the NJSCC in the Architecture discipline with a rating of at least $5,000,000 to and including $20,000,000 as of May 25, 2006.

The Consultant must be a firm prequalified by the NJSCC in the following areas or have sub-consultants prequalified by the NJSCC in the following areas:

• HVAC Engineering
  
• Electrical Engineering
  
• Civil Engineering
  
• Structural Engineering
  
• Plumbing Engineering
  

The NJSCC will not permit the Regional PMF or the sub-consultants to the Regional PMF, who provide services to the NJSCC for the above school district, to be engaged as a prime or subcontractor for this engagement. The Regional PMF or the sub-consultants to the Regional PMF, who provide services to the NJSCC for the above school district, shall not submit or be named in a proposal or bid for this engagement.

Bidders are required to comply with the requirements of P.L. 1975, c.127 (N.J.A.C. 17:27), pertaining to affirmative action and equal employment opportunity

The NJSCC requires the consultant to provide opportunities to SBE firms to participate in the performance of this engagement, consistent with NJSCC’s SBE Set-Aside Goals of 25% (5% to Category 4, 10% to Category 5, and the remaining 10% to be allocated among Category 4 and/or Category 5). To be registered in Category 4, a business must have gross revenues that do not exceed $1 million. To be registered in Category 5, a business must have gross revenues exceeding $1 million. The Small Business Administration size standards are established at 13 C.F.R. 121.201.

In order to ensure the broad distribution of contracting opportunities, the SCC has modified its computerized random selection process that is utilized to short-list firms for Category 2 design procurements. Under the previous computerized selection process, the frequency with which a firm was short-listed was not taken into consideration. To achieve greater equity in contracting opportunities, the selection process has been modified as follows: Firms that were previously short-listed through computerized random selections will not be short-listed again, through that process, until all pre-qualified firms meeting the specific criteria assigned to a particular procurement are short-listed, thereby assuring that all firms will be given the opportunity to compete in Category 2 design procurements.

Technical Proposals will be evaluated by the Selection Committee based upon the following criteria:

1. Team Experience
   
2. Experience of Key Team Members
   
3. Proposed Staffing
   
4. Approach to the School Facilities Project
   
5. Approach to Control of Project Schedule
   
6. Approach to Control of Project Budget
   

DATE ADVERTISED: May 23, 2006