Renovation of a mixed-use development in Oakland, California. Conceptual plans call for the renovation of a educational facility.

The scope of work is to provide expert engineering and consulting services for the District's fire alarm, fire intrusion, and fire protection systems. The scope would include field review of installations, final testing of systems, and signing off projects with DSA. The engineering consultant firm shall have a minimum of five years of experience in designing the fire protection systems for new, renovated or modified K-12 schools in California and have completed fire alarm design drawings for more than ten (10) California K-12 schools. The engineering consultant firm must provide at least three (3) references showing that the firm has a minimum of five years of experience in designing properly operational and functional low voltage fire alarm systems utilizing Simplex Grinnell, Johnson Controls, and other fire alarm manufacturing equipment in California. 2. The engineering consultant shall have working knowledge of codes and standards, applicable to school fire alarm and fire protection systems including the California Building, Fire, and Electrical Codes, NFPA 72, Division of the State Architect (DSA) requirements, and Oakland Unified School District requirements (OUSD) as well as be familiar with SimplexGrinnell fire alarm equipment. The consultant shall have experience and skills necessary to provide services such as review of fire alarm and fire protection system plans for compliance with applicable fire and life safety codes and standards, and review of shop drawings submitted to DSA for approval. 3.Additionally, the engineering consultant firm shall have experience working with the Division of the State Architect and have preferably a local Oakland, California office. The engineering consultant firm shall have a minimum of one California Registered Fire Protection Engineer and one NICET Level IV designer in fire alarm in their local California office. The engineering consultant firm shall have the ability to develop AutoCAD drawings from existing hard copy drawings provided by the District. The entire fire alarm, intrusion alarm, and fire protection systems shall be designed using the latest AutoCAD version but may be required to provide the District with backward compatible drawing files. If you have any questions regarding this RFQ and/or submitting proposal electronically, please email Kenya Chatman at kenya.chatman@ousd.org and cc: to Colland Jang at colland.jang@ousd.org Question Deadline 10/03/2023