This is a service / maintenance or supply contract in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Contact the soliciting agency for additional information.

Project Description: The City of Albuquerque Transit Department, ABQ RIDE, seeks a qualified architectural team to assist the Department in a phased project to upgrade its Yale Operations and Maintenance Facility to address building, infrastructure, and operational deficiencies. ABQ RIDE is exploring options to construct an entirely new facility on site or to rehabilitate and renovate some or all of the existing buildings. The scope of work will include professional services for the assessment, programming, schematic design, design development, environmental studies, permit updates and other architectural / engineering support, environmental permit applications and support, construction documents, public involvement, and construction administration for the Yale Operations and Maintenance Facility. The intent is to advance the first phase of the project, which includes site assessment, programming, conceptual design, and cost estimation. The conceptual plans and documents developed in this phase will be used to seek funding. Should ABQ RIDE be successful in securing capital funding for the proposed facility, the additional design and construction administration may be optioned at ABQ RIDE's discretion. The firm selected for this project must have the capabilities to carry out all phases of the project. During Phase I, ABQ RIDE will decide if the project will proceed traditional design-bid or CMAR. The architectural consultant would help the City secure the CMAR contract. This project does contain federal funding therefore point deductions will not be applied. Proposal Format: Respondents shall provide an emailed PDF proposal no larger than 5MB. Interviews may be held from a "short list" of respondents determined by the Selection Advisory Committee. Short listed respondents will be required to make a presentation to the Selection Advisory Committee addressing project related items selected by the Committee. If interviews are not held, the proposal will be the basis for recommending firms or persons to the Mayor to provide professional services for the project. The format for the proposal plus the point value of each category that will be evaluated by the Selection Advisory Committee shall be as follows: Category Points I. General Information 5 II.Project Team Members 25 III.Respondent Experience 30 IV.Technical Approach 30 V.Cost Control 5 VI.Quality and Content of Proposal 5 (Reserved for Committee Use Only) Proposals shall be bound and limited to a maximum of fifteen (15) pages (single sided) excluding the introductory letter, any applicable agreement and insurance certificates, the title page, the table of contents, dividers between categories, and the front and back cover/binder pages. Since this is a federally funded project, respondents must provide their Unique Entity ID for verification of status on the SAM.gov Portal. All other 8 " x 11" pages shall be numbered. Any 17" x 11" pages shall be numbered as two pages. Drawings on 24" x 36" sheets shall be numbered as four pages. Font size no smaller than 10 point shall be used. Your proposal should be as clear and concise as you can make it and still provide the Selection Advisory Committee with information addressing the requirements in each of the first five categories stipulated above (you do not respond to Category VI). Proposals longer than the specified page limitation will be rejected and will not be evaluated. The individual signing the proposal and any other submitted document on behalf of a legal entity shall be a New Mexico registered professional Architect. If any significant text detailing any aspect of the current project, prior consultant projects or the consulting firm is found on any page not normally counted as part of the maximum page limitation, that page may be considered to be part of the respondent's proposal and may be counted as part of the maximum page limitation, as determined by the Administrator. Selection of qualified professional firms and/or persons will be pursuant to the provisions of Section 14-7-2-1 et seq, of the Revised Ordinances of Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1994. All proposals submitted will contain a completed Pay Equity Worksheet PE10-249 and shall contain a fully completed and executed "Agreement and Insurance Certification" form. Proposals not containing the fully executed "Agreement and Insurance Certification" form shall be non-responsive and shall not be considered for evaluation. Copies of the Pay Equity Worksheet, the Standard Agreement that shall be used for the project and the "Agreement and Insurance Certification" form may be obtained from the City Portal by searching for Agreement and Insurance Certification. For those projects which are federally funded, the selected firm and/or persons will be required to comply with the applicable federal requirements including those relating to Equal Opportunity in Employment. Basic Services compensation for those firms and persons who are selected to provide services for the listed project will be negotiated in accordance with Section 14-7-1 et seq, of the Revised Ordinances of Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1994, entitled "Compensation for Services of Consulting Engineers, Architects and Landscape Architects." Responses received pursuant to this advertisement may constitute public records of the City of Albuquerque subject to disclosure to any interested party under the Inspection of Public Records Act (Section 14-2-1 through 14-2-3 N.M.S.A. (1978)). A responding firm and/or person submitting a response believed to contain "trade secrets" within the meaning of Section 30-16-24 N.M.S.A. (1978) should clearly designate the response as such by printing the words "TRADE SECRET" on the top portion of the front cover of their response. The responding firm and/or person may restrict distribution of their response to only those individuals involved in review and analysis of responses. The City of Albuquerque will attempt to restrict distribution of a designated response as directed by the submitting party. The method of Contractor Selection has not been determined at this time.