Renovation of an educational facility in East Lansing, Michigan. Completed plans call for the renovation of a educational facility.

This will be a design-build project. Any contract resulting from this solicitation will be in the form of ConsensusDOCS 415 Design Build Agreement and General Conditions as modified by Michigan State University. A copy, Attachment A, will be provided as part of this RFP. The construction of a new state of the art regional chilled water plant and distribution loop which can serve west-central academic/research region of the campus. This Southwest Regional Chilled Water Plant (SWRCHWP) needs to be highly diverse, scalable, reliable, and energy efficient to meet the growing needs and sustainability/energy goals of the Campus. This RFP address the Phase 1 component described above and includes, but not limited to, the construction of a new scabble state art SWRCHWP, new chilled water distribution loop, connection to an existing chilled water distribution loop (Engineering and Anthony/Food Science Loop), site utilities, new water main installation, road/hardscape demo and restoration, parking lot and loading dock, and other miscellaneous items. The New Regional Chilled Water Plant will utilize electric and steam turbine chillers to initially serve 1.9 MSF and according to the attached chilled water study (initial build will have approximately 3,800 tons cooling with 3 future 2,800-ton bays). There are four principal components to the selection process 1. Request for Qualifications and Experience of the proposed team. 1. This Request for Proposals ("RFP") provides the information necessary to prepare and submit Proposals including fee proposals and general conditions pricing, staffing and general requirements. 2. In the third step of the process, short listed respondents will be requested to attend an interview with the Owner and selected design professional to confirm their Proposal and answer additional questions. 3. MSU will identify the best-qualified firm, and then review cost proposals. If the most qualified firm is higher than other proposals, MSU will make a determination if the premium brings corresponding value. If it is significantly lower, MSU will review to ensure the cost proposal is reasonable. The university will select the team which, in its sole judgment, is the best qualified to execute this project.