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City shortlists three firms to serve as owner’s representative for Fort Lauderdale City Hall project
Summary
City staff said the RFQ for an owner’s representative closed in early January; three firms were shortlisted and will present to a city evaluation committee on March 10. The presentations are closed to the public; the committee’s deliberation will be open to the public at 4:25 p.m. in the same room.
City of Fort Lauderdale staff told the Infrastructure Task Force that the request for qualifications for an owner’s representative for the new City Hall project closed in early January and that three firms have been shortlisted.
“This bid has closed. It closed in early January, and the committee reviewed the bids and has shortlisted 3 firms to be the city donor's representative,” Angela Tom, a city staff member who briefed the task force, said. “The committee is going to meet with those 3 firms on March 10. The firms are gonna do a presentation, a q and a with the evaluation committee, and that'll take place on March 10, and then we'll get updates after that.”
The evaluation committee’s interviews with the shortlisted firms are not public, Tom said; the public may attend a later committee discussion. “Starting at 04:25PM in this room on March 10, the evaluation committee will provide its will potentially discuss the bids that they reviewed, and then public can come at 04:25PM in this room on March 10,” she said.
Task force members asked whether the city sought firms with engineering backgrounds and whether the owner’s representative would participate during design. Tom said engineering was among the qualifications and that the owner’s representative typically would help the city through design and construction, including advising on the design criteria package (DCP) that staff are drafting. “The owner's representative is gonna help guide us through that process, and then the design criteria package will really get us to some of that hard stuff you're talking about,” Tom said.
Task force members also sought clarity about the procurement sequence. Staff explained the procurement uses an RFQ (request for qualifications) to identify the most qualified firm for the owner’s representative role; financial negotiations follow selection, and the owner’s representative will then assist development of the DCP and the subsequent design-build RFP for the project.
Tom said staff expect to provide updates to the task force as the selection and DCP processes advance and that the DCP draft will be released for input later this year. Staff also confirmed the City Commission previously signaled a preference for continuing the City Hall project at the existing site.
The task force asked staff to provide the RFQ text, clarify the evaluation committee membership if allowed, and to send the public meeting details for March 10 so members and residents can attend the committee’s public session.
