Request for Qualifications to Pre-Qualify General Contractors for: Demolition of Social Sciences & Business Building Tower

Request for Qualifications to Pre-Qualify General Contractors for: Demolition of Social Sciences & Business Building Tower

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Status: Active

Advertisement Date: 10/01-2024

Campus: St. Louis

Construction Estimate: $1,500,000-$3,000,000

Advertisement Date: January 10th, 2024

Request for Qualifications to Pre-Qualify Demolition Contractors for:

Demolition of Social Sciences & Business Building Tower

Construction Estimate for Demolition Project: $1.5-$3M

Designers: PGAV Architects

Responses to this request for qualifications will be received by the Curators of the University of Missouri , Owner, via e-mail to Blake Sutter (pbsy9f@umsl.edu), Associate Director- Planning, Design, & Construction Campus Facilities, University of Missouri - St. Louis, until 1:30 pm, CST on February 1, 2024. Immediately following the closing time for receipt of qualifications, each respondent will be notified that their submission has been received via email. No other information will be provided at that time. The University reserves the right to waive informalities in bids and to reject all responses to this request for qualifications and advertise one or all of these projects publicly. Questions regarding this process should be directed to Blake Sutter (314)-516-6340

Rational for Pre-qualification

The University of Missouri – St. Louis has determined pre-qualifying demolition contractors is necessary due to the highly specialized and complex nature of demolishing the Social Sciences & Business Tower at University of Missouri-St. Louis.

This project will require demolition contractors with the necessary experience and a proven track record of successfully completing projects with similar or comparable complexities. These projects must be completed within critical schedules in order to meet the Owner’s schedule commitments for activities to support the academic calendar of the campus.

Project Description

This project will include the demolition of the SSB Tower on UMSL’s north campus. The SSB Tower is 13 floors and approximately 40,000 sqft. Only prequalified demolition contractors will be allowed to perform the critical demolition efforts when the Social Sciences & Business Building is advertised for demolition. The anticipated bid date will be early March.

Supplier Diversity participation goals will be: 25% MBE, 10% WBE, Veteran, DBE and 3% SDVE

UMSL has prioritized partnering with suppliers located near its physical campus in what we call the UMSL Anchor Mission Footprint. UMSL Anchor Mission Footprint is defined as a region around UMSL’s campus of twenty-two zip codes (63101, 63102, 63103, 63104, 63106, 63107, 63112, 63113, 63114, 63115, 63118, 63120, 63121, 63133, 63134, 63135, 63136, 63137, 63138, 63140, 63147, 63155)

Anticipated Schedule:

Below is anticipated schedule for this demolition pre-qualification process:

1/18/2024 Advertise for qualifications

2/1/2024 Receive qualifications

Finalize and notify prequalified demolition contractors by 2/19/2024

Spring 2024 Demolition of Social Sciences and Business Tower

Description of the Qualification Process

Qualifications of respondents to this RFQ will be evaluated based upon the financial responsibility, safety record, ability to adhere to schedules, past experience the firm and the firm’s proposed project team has had with projects of similar size, construction type, schedule and scope and other information included in the qualification packet. The Owner will assign an evaluation team comprised of representatives from the design team and the Owner’s staff to evaluate and score the respondent’s qualifications material. A point total of 1000 points has been assigned to the qualification criteria enclosed herein. A minimum of 800 points must be achieved to be pre-qualified. The university will notify all respondents after their qualifications have been reviewed and scored.

The weighting of the points for the qualifications packet will be as follows:

TAB 1- 200 points

TAB 2 - 200 points

TAB 3 - 100 points

TAB 4 - 150 points

TAB 5 - 250 points

TAB 6 – 100 points

Irrespective of any point totals, mandatory requirements for pre-qualification include:

• Successful completion of project(s) similar in value and scope by both the firm and the firm’s proposed team.
• Experience modification rate of less than 1.0 for each of the last three years.
• No work-related fatalities in the last three years.

Firms not meeting these mandatory requirements will not be prequalified.

The owner reserves the right to seek clarifications and to interview the contractor’s proposed project team.

QUALIFICATION PACKET: The qualification information required to be submitted is listed below. PLEASE SUBMIT ALL INFORMATION ELECTRONICALLY IN PDF FORM. THE PDF DOCUMENT SHALL BE TABBED OR BOOKMARKED AS OUTLINED IN THIS DOCUMENT.

TAB 1 – ORGANIZATIONAL QUESTIONS

1. The contractor shall furnish a brief history of how the company was started and developed, when the company was started and a list of the primary officers who are involved within the company and how the company is organized.

The contractor will be required to have qualified key personnel in the office and at the construction site who have served in similar project team roles and had previous experience with projects of a similar scope and complexity. The contractor shall include an organizational chart showing all persons who will be involved with this project and their roles and responsibilities. Include a short narrative for each individual detailing their past experience in a similar role that qualifies them for this project. Include a bar chart illustrating the timing, duration and percent FTE of each individual.

TAB 2 - PROJECT TEAM RESUMES:

1. The contractor shall furnish a resume for all staff listed on the organizational chart under TAB 1 listing his/her name, experience, time with the company and experience with projects of similar scope and complexity, including experience with LEED projects. Resumes submitted in this qualification shall be for the actual individuals that will directly supervise the work of this project.
   
   

TAB 3 - ANNUAL VOLUME:

1. Provide yearly volume of construction work completed for the past five years.
   1. 2023
   2. 2022
   3. 2021
   4. 2020
   5. 2019
2. Provide projected volume for 2024. Provide project listing and tabulation.

TAB 4 - OPERATIONAL METHODS: List and describe the following:

1. List anticipated work performed by the contractor’s own work force.
2. List anticipated work to be subcontracted to other firms.
3. Does the contractor own or have the ability to procure a mobile demolition processor?
4. What is the contractor’s E.M.R. (Employee Modification Rate) for each of the last three years?
5. What are the contractor’s Performance, Labor, and Material Bond Rate?
6. Based upon the contractor’s current and projected backlog, how many tradesmen will be available as necessary to achieve the schedule requirements? List by trade and classification.
7. Describe the company’s safety program. If written program, provide a copy of the table of contents from the manual.
8. Describe the company’s quality assurance program. If written program, provide a copy of the table of contents from the manual.
9. Provide a narrative of the scheduling programs and strategies to be utilized to maintain each phase of the project schedule including how weather will be managed. Also include efforts for management of critical submittals and closeout efforts.

TAB 5 - RELEVENT EXPERIENCE

1. Provide a list of past and present projects of a similar scope and complexity as this project with emphasis demolishing buildings above 5 stories while preserving adjacent structures. Include the location, description of the work scope, date started, contract completion date, actual completion date, contract amount, change order rate by percent of the original contract amount and square footage of the facility. Provide references with contact information for each project listed. Do not include projects on this list that are not similar in scope and complexity to this project.

1. Provide a list of the major projects your organization has completed in the past 5 years, giving the name of each project, owner, architect, contract amount, date of completion and percentages of the cost of the work performed with your own forces.
   
   

TAB 6 – Contract

1. Provide acknowledgement that the contractor has reviewed the General Conditions for University of Missouri – St. Louis construction projects and confirm that contractor will accept contract terms without alterations or exclusions https://collaborate.umsystem.edu/sites/fpd/public/docs/General%20Conditions%2012%202021.pdf?d=w4cf6b5b043474271a487a7830c2eec1e

During review of these qualifications please provide, upon request, your organization’s most recently audited financial statement for further review.

Reviewed 2024-01-18