Open-End Contracts for Professional Services

INVITATION TO BID COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY of PENNSYLVANIARFP 1232024: Open-End Contracts for Professional ServicesCommonwealth University of Pennsylvania consisting of campuses located at Bloomsburg, Lock Haven, Clearfield and Mansfield, intends to contract to have a number of firms available to perform a variety of design professional services for Architectural, MEP, Site Civil, and Structural related to the construction, demolition, repair, renovation, alteration, and analysis of Campus buildings’ structure, systems, infrastructure, landscape and hardscape elements.  Firms must be capable of providing services to all the above campuses.  This RFP provides interested professionals with sufficient information to prepare and submit their firm’s capabilities for the services desired by the University.  The professional services include planning, feasibility study, design, bid document preparation, bid participation, construction administration and closeout responsibilities.    Services shall be performed as described by the PA State System of Higher Education (PASSHE), or Commonwealth University policies and procedures, governing design and construction projects.  Services include, but are not limited to the appropriate architectural, engineering and consulting disciplines described in the RFP.The University encourages responses from small diverse businesses, and firms, which have not previously worked for the Commonwealth University or Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, and will consider joint ventures, which will enable these firms to participate in University professional services contracts. Firms that currently hold existing A/E Open End contracts with PASSHE for ARCH-2023 and ENG-2023 are not eligible to participate in this RFP. A pre-proposal conference will be held on Wednesday, September 25, 2024 at 1:00 p.m. in Arts and Admin Building, Room 185 (Admissions Room), Bloomsburg University, 400 E. Second Street, Bloomsburg, PA 17815. Attendance at the pre-proposal conference is not mandatory but highly recommended to attend.  The meeting with conclude with a campus walk-through of Bloomsburg University after the pre-bid meeting, anticipate the meeting to last 2 hours.  Guest are to park in the parking lot behind the Library and Lower East Parking lot, the enclosed parking pass must be displayed inside on the front windshield of the guest automobile.  All vehicles parking on campus will need to be “Face in parking”.  Parking passes can be obtained on the ARIBA Sourcepoint when downloading the RFP documents.Electronic Proposals are due no later than 1:00 PM, EDT on October 11, 2024, through PASSHE’s ARIBA Sourcepoint located at http://seller.ariba.com.The Bid package is available at http://seller.ariba.com. In order to submit a proposal, interested bidders need to register at PASSHE’s ARIBA Sourcepoint  http://seller.ariba.com.  Registration is a free process that takes only a few minutes. Once registered, bidders may obtain all solicitation documents, receive notification of solicitation updates, and submit and update their confidential bids online. PASSHE’s Ariba Sourcepoint provides bid privacy, security and supplier confidentiality, while streamlining the overall procurement process. Although all solicitations are available for public viewing, interested suppliers need to register to be able to submit a bid. Directions:  www.bloomu.edu