Consulting Services

The vendor required to provide prime consultant firm to provide full design services for the extended education 160 corridor’s development into an informal learning space.
- Requirement:
•    Engagement with the faculty representatives as provided at project start-up 
•    Provide three (3) schematic design layouts of the proposed informal learning space. 
•    Suggested options should aim to provide flexible study space that allows for collaboration and small meetings between students. 
•    Review space capacity, working styles and furniture types. 
•    Careful consideration of existing corridor parameters. 
•    Review where these new informal learning space sections will be best situated so as not to negatively impact adjacent circulation routes, egress pathways, etc.
•    Review and provide new electrical infrastructure where required to best serve the new informal Learning space strategy. 
•    Infrastructure should allow users to have convenient access to power and USB for charging their devices. 
•    Flooring replacement. 
•    Redesign of existing ceiling. 
•    Existing wood slats to be demolished, have mechanical diffusers integrated into them. 
•    Existing mechanical ducting and diffusers to be replaced.
•    Pneumatic controls to be replaced with new digital controllers for mixing boxes, new valve actuators, and thermostats. 
•    All wiring back to existing digital controls panel in the building.
•    Replacement of existing lighting and controls following current standards and integrating into the overall design of the ceiling system. 
•    Asbestos abatement
•    Acoustic considerations: acoustic wall application and ceiling treatment to be considered strategically to enhance the acoustic experience of the space. 
•    New furniture and student locker:
o    New fixed furniture and student lockers to be included in tender package. 
o    Procure all loose furniture (through po) and therefore will not need be included within the construction contract.
o    Provide layouts that address functional work requirements, acoustics, adjustability and flexibility, easy use by individuals with a wide range of abilities. 
o    Fixed furniture: investigate and present the available options for consideration by the end users that meet or exceed the required student capacity. 
o    Finish and material selection, coordination into drawings and specifications and review of associated shop drawings is to be included within the scope of basic services. 
o    Loose furniture: investigate and present available options for consideration by the end users. 
o    Loose furniture is anticipated to be required only for group study tables, accessible locations (height adjustable tables) and loose chairs that match the fixed furniture described above. 
o    Finish and material selection and coordination into drawings will be required. 
o    Review existing student lockers displaced by the informal learning space and provide new lockers in adjacent corridors. 
o    Half-sized lockers may be considered and should be included within the construction documents.
- Budget: $1,600,000

- Contract Period/Term: 3 years
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: November 26, 2025