Site work and new construction of an educational facility in Okeechobee, Florida. Completed plans call for the construction of a educational facility; and for site work for a educational facility.

**Parent Project** The owner has selected a Construction Manager. Pre-construction Fee is $265,000.00 base on $60,000,000.00 Construction budget. Okeechobee County School Board is requesting written proposals from qualified construction firms to provide professional At-Risk Construction Management Services for the Budgeting and Construction Phase on the proposed New Okeechobee High School. It is the Boards intention to employ the Construction Firm at Risk to provide overall Project Construction Management, including Pre-Construction Services, Cost Benefit Studies, Information Management, Construction for Scope of Work and overall Project Management during the Construction on a cost plus a fee basis, with a guaranteed maximum price. Proposals must be responsive to the requirements and questions of the Request for Qualifications. Reservations: Okeechobee County School Board reserves the right, during the entire process, to reject any and all proposals, to negotiate changes in the new scope of work or services to be provided, and to otherwise waive any technicalities or informalities. Method of Selection: Proposals will be reviewed by the construction management review committee, which has been appointed by the Okeechobee County School Board. The construction management review committee shall review the qualifications (which shall include, but are not limited to, the eleven items listed below) of interested firms. Subsequently, the construction management review committee shall develop a short list of firms. The short listed firms will be invited to make presentations to the construction management review committee. Following the presentations, the construction review committee shall make a recommendation to the school board. Upon acceptance of the recommendation from the construction management review committee, the Okeechobee County School Board may enter into negotiations or entertain bids with the selected construction management firm. Please respond by including but not limiting your responses to the following: Company name and length of time in business, Company location, Minority Business Enterprise, Women or Veteran Owned Availability to start and meet schedule Insurance, bonding capacity, litigation and settlements Qualifications of staff to be utilized on this project Past performance - Five (5) previous School Clients Description of previous experience Experience working on an occupied school campus Experience with Special Facility Construction Account projects as well as phased funding Previous experience with Davis-Bacon Act Compliance Any questions, requests for clarifications or interpretations regarding this RFQ during the submittal preparation period (or reporting errors, inconsistencies, or ambiguities) must be submitted in writing to Greg Kelley, CRA Architects, via email to gkelley@craarchitects.com no later than the August 10, 2021. No questions or clarifications will be considered after that date. A Pre-proposal Conference may be scheduled by CRA at a later date. Any person employed by a firm submitting a proposal is forbidden to contact directly or indirectly the Superintendent, Board member, or staff member of Okeechobee County Schools. Violation of this prohibition will result in the firm's proposal being rejected and the firm being disqualified from the review and selection process.