Florida Gulf Coast University Board of Trustees announces that Construction Management Services will be required for the project listed below:

Project No. BR-1054, Project and Location: Classroom/Labs/Offices – Academic Building 7, Florida Gulf Coast University, Ft. Myers, Florida.

This new FGCU academic building will be utilized by the College of Arts & Sciences, and will fulfill a campus need for additional classrooms and laboratories serving a variety of science and math programs. In particular, this building will provide new instructional spaces for programs in chemistry, physics, biology, math and psychology that are presently taught in Whitaker Hall, which is adjacent to the proposed site for Academic Building 7. In addition, there will extensive use of AB7 for faculty and staff offices.

The AB7 facility will be the first FGCU building which will be a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Building. The architect has been directed to design the building for a LEED Silver certification. The AB7 Building will be 4 stories in height and total approximately 60,000 gross square feet.

The site of AB7 will be located west of the existing Whitaker Hall Building and east of the Engineering Building, which is currently under construction. The major areas of the building will include a reception/lobby area, various laboratories, SCALE-UP classrooms, traditional classrooms/lecture room, and offices for the CAS Dean, faculty and staff.

The site has been conceptually permitted with both the Corps of Engineers and South Florida Water Management District. This project will have to modify an existing construction and operation permit issued by the South Florida Water Management District.

The total project budget is $20,325,000 and construction budget is approximately $16,000,000. The project will be contracted through the construction management method.

Selection will be made on the basis of construction manager’s qualifications, including experience and ability; past experience; bonding capacity; record-keeping/administrative ability, critical path scheduling expertise; cost estimating; cost control ability; quality control capability and qualification of the firm’s personnel, staff and consultants.

The Selection Committee may reject all proposals and stop the selection process at any time. The construction manager shall have no ownership, entrepreneurial or financial affiliation with the selected architect/engineer involved with this project.

Firms desiring to provide construction management services for the project shall submit a letter of application and a completed Board of Regents “Construction Manager Qualifications Supplement”. Proposals must not exceed 80 pages, including the Construction Manager Qualifications Supplement and letter of application. Pages should be numbered consecutively. Submittals, which do not comply with these requirements or do not include the requested data, will not be considered. No submittal information will be returned.

All applicants must be licensed to practice as general contractors in the State of Florida at the time of application. Corporations must be registered to operate in the State of Florida by the Department of State, Division of Corporations, at the time of application. As required by Section 287.133, F.S., a construction management firm may not submit a proposal for this project if it is on the convicted vendor list for a public entity crime committed within the past 36 months. The selected construction management firm must warrant that it will neither utilize the services of, nor contract with, any supplier, subcontractor, or consultant in excess of $15,000.00 in connection with this project for a period of 36 months from the date of their being placed on the convicted vendor list.

The Board of Regents Construction Manager Qualifications Supplement forms and the Project Fact Sheet may be obtained by contacting: Mr. Jack Fenwick, Director of Facilities Planning, Florida Gulf Coast University, 10501 FGCU Blvd., South, Ft. Myers, Florida 33965-6565, (239)590-1500, Fax (239)590-1505.

Five (5) bound copies of the required proposal data shall be submitted to: Mr. Jack Fenwick, Director of Facilities Planning, Florida Gulf Coast University, 10501 FGCU Blvd., South, Fort Myers, Florida 33965-6565.

Submittals must be received in the Facilities Planning Office by 2:00 p.m. (Local Time) on March 31, 2008. Facsimile (FAX) submittals are not acceptable and will not be considered.