Buildings of Excellence - Early Design Support (RFP 3928 - D)

Buildings of Excellence - Early Design Support (RFP 3928 - D)

Due Date: 11/14/2025

The Buildings of Excellence Early Design Support Request for Proposal (the “Early Design Support RFP”) seeks Proposals for qualified design firms that will provide early-stage design support for new construction, adaptive reuse, and gut rehabilitation multifamily projects that will be clean and resilient, beautiful, and functional, and will provide healthy, safe, comfortable, and resilient living spaces for their occupants. Funding through the EDS RFP may be made available to projects that will achieve carbon neutral performance and will also be profitable for their developers and owners and demonstrate realistic cost reductions in the design and construction phases. The EDS RFP is part of the larger Buildings of Excellence Competition (the “Competition”). Design firm Partner Proposers (the “Partner Proposers”) to the EDS RFP must demonstrate how their design firm has engaged with prior projects or will engage with future projects to substantially reduce energy use and per capita carbon emissions, while increasing building resiliency, including passive and active survivability, successfully integrating architectural design attributes, and improving health, comfort, safety, and productivity for occupants, in a manner that can be replicated at scale. Successful Partner Proposers will become design firm Partners (the “Partners”) under the EDS RFP. Partners are eligible to receive up to $1.50/square foot in direct funding, up to a per project-cap of $150,000, for the proposed projects, for early-stage clean, resilient, and carbon neutral design support, as well as support for initiatives focused on broad marketing and public awareness.