Site work and new construction of an educational facility in Omaha, Nebraska. Working plans call for the construction of a educational facility; and for site work for a educational facility.

As of April 14, 2022, the owner has selected CenTrio and Nexus as Design Builders. A timeline for construction has not yet been established. Project awarded to CenTrio and Nexus (unable to verify awarded company). The University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) is seeking an experienced partner to expand development of the existing UNMC owned District Energy System up to and including the potential design, construction, ownership, management and operations of the utility systems. UNMC hereby requests Statements of Qualification for the purpose of shortlisting Respondents that demonstrate the technical, financial, and management capacity required to deliver a utility generation and distribution structure under the terms of an anticipated public-private-partnership agreement. This Request for Qualifications (RFQ) is being issued as part of a two-phase selection procedure. Shortlisted Respondents will subsequently be invited to submit proposals for an Agreement, in accordance with a future Request for Proposals (RFP). 9/15/2021 02:00:00 PM Question Deadline The University of Nebraska Medical Center / Nebraska Medicine Campus utility requirements are served from a central utility grid system of chilled water, steam, hot water, and normal and emergency electrical power. The 4.7 million square foot campus is comprised of hospital, medical, research, and education facilities requiring an extremely reliable, robust, and diverse utility infrastructure on a "round the clock-round the year" schedule. Chilled water is produced onsite from electric driven, water cooled chillers totaling nominally 20,000 tons of capacity not including 1,400 tons of heat recovery chilling capacity. 125 psig Steam is generated from natural gas fired steam boilers. The steam and chilled water capacity is primarily housed in the Central Utility Plant (CUP) and East Utility Plant (EUP). Nameplate steam generation capacity in the CUP totals 240,000 lb/hr, however firing capacity on some of the units is limited by airflow for an effective installed capacity of 200,000 lb/hr and an actual N+1 redundancy firm capacity of nominally 145,000 lb/hr. #6 fuel oil as available as back-up fuel for the natural gas boilers. Two utility scale electrode boilers are installed in the EUP, each with a rated capacity of 45,000 lb/hr although combined output is limited to roughly 63,000 lb/hr due to constraints in the electrical supply. Normal electric power (13.8 kV) is brought in from the local electric utility company (Omaha Public Power District-OPPD) on 5 automatically switched circuits from the utility and distributed to load by the campus primary power system. Emergency power is supplied to the emergency campus grid from 9 diesel generators with 15.9 MW of capacity serving about 200 transfer switches feeding emergency related building loads. UNMC / Nebraska Medicine RFQ No. 9734 4 UNMC Over the past 10 years the campus has substantially reduced energy consumption through operational and control improvements and upgrades which has held utility consumption at or lower than previous conditions despite campus expansion. Utility plant improvements completed in that timespan include: Reconfiguration of the chilled water system from a decoupled, semi-variable flow secondary distribution system, to a coupled, variable primary flow system. Addition of high efficiency chillers in place of older inefficient equipment along with new, low power consumption cooling towers. Incorporating variable frequency drives on plant ancillary equipment to improve efficiency. A new control system that fully integrates the utility systems with the campus building control systems to improve operational control from the campus energy entrance to the end use in the building. At the building level, new controls along with new variable frequency drives and new cooling coils have significantly improved energy performance within specific buildings. Combining these physical changes with an educated and engaged utility operational staff has resulted in reductions of over 20% of utility energy use to date Proposal Submittals Due 4/1/2022 Target Award Date 9/1/2022