Community Hospital Power Study

SUNY Upstate Medical University is seeking qualifications for a program survey. We seek qualifications from Consulting Architectural & Engineering Firms with an Electrical Contractor Sub-Consultant to provide their experience, skills, and supervision to review our electrical infrastructure and update/create as-built drawings of Upstate Community Hospital campus electrical systems. This effort will be used to characterize the entire electrical system from the main feeders at the two (2) Switch Gear. Capturing all distribution Lineups down to the panels as described. The consultant team will also provide a list of projects to repair, rehabilitate, reconstruct, or improve the university's infrastructure facilities. The team will provide a Power Survey of all buildings located on the Community Hospital campus.

There will be no formal site visit nor will tours of the facility be given prior to the receipt of responses to the RFQ.

A minimum of 7 years of experience in the design, repair and auditing of electrical infrastructure systems and experience working in a health care setting for both the Electrical Engineer firm and its Electrical Contractor team members is required.

Request for Qualifications (RFQ) are attached below and may be download by all firms interested in responding to this advertisement.

Responses to the RFQ should describe the consultant's experience and qualifications to undertake this work as described therein. The successful firm will be required to provide evidence demonstrating that the firm and any of the firms' engineering, land surveying, architectural or landscape architectural sub-consultants, are legally authorized by the NYS Education Department to do business in NY State. All firms must also provide proof of New York State Worker's Compensation Insurance and Disability Insurance coverage.

Qualifications must be submitted as five (5) complete qualification packages, three (3) of which must have original signatures, the other two (2) can be on separate flash drives and may be delivered to the location below. Any submission not including five (5) complete qualification packages (three (3) hard copies and two (2) separate flash drives will be rejected. Qualifications must be received by 2:00 PM on Wednesday, June 25, 2025.

Contact - mailing & delivery address:

Miss Ivy Lopez & Mrs. Jeanie Pender

Contracts & Campus Purchasing

SUNY-Upstate Medical University

650 South Salina Street, Room 2050

Syracuse, New York 13202

All questions to be by fax or email (email is preferred) to each: Ivy Lopez (LopezI@upstate.edu) and Charles L. Johnson (Johnsoch@Upstate.edu). The RFQ is due 2:00 PM – Wednesday, June 25, 2025. The date and time for the last questions to be considered is 5:00 PM – Wednesday, June 18, 2025. All questions will be answered by 5:00 PM - Wednesday, June 20, 2025. These will be issued as an Addendum.

Effective 1/1/06, in accordance with State Finance Law Section §139 j&k, AKA the Lobbying Law, all questions pertaining to this procurement shall be made formally to the following Designated Staff: Miss Ivy Lopez, Contracts Administrator and Mrs. Jeanie Pender, Contracts Administrator, Phone: 315-464-4780, email Lopezi@upstate.edu and penderj@upstate.edu. Contact made to other staff regarding this procurement may disqualify the firm and affect future procurements with government entities in the State of New York. Please refer to the OGS’ ( www.ogs.state.ny.us/aboutogs/regulations/defaultAdvisoryCouncil.html ) for more information on this law.

NYS Executive Law Article 15-A and University policy require campuses, and the consultants with whom they do business, to make a good faith effort to procure materials, supplies, equipment and services (including printing) from NYS certified minority- or women-owned businesses (M/WBEs) and meet University established goals for M/WBE participation in contracts. State University of New York goals are: 22% MBE participation and 8% WBE participation of the total contract value and 6% Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Business participation goal.

State University of New York also has a goal for the Work Force participation: EEO 10% WBE and EEO 10% MBE of total work force on the project. The selected consultant will be required to comply with M/WBE requirements.

The State University of New York Upstate Medical University reserves the right to reject any or all Qualification packages.

The actual schedule for this project will be determined during programming.