BATTLE MOUNTAIN - A Request for Proposals (RFP) package for the new Lander County Courthouse/Administrative Building was approved unanimously by Lander County commissioners, with Chair Dean Bullock absent, at their April 26 meeting for the Construction Manager at Risk (CMAR) project.
The package hit the streets May 7. Proposal packages must be dropped off or mailed to the Lander County Clerk's Office at 315 S. Humboldt St., Battle Mountain, NV, 89820, and received no later than 5 p.m. on June 11.
The project is being advertised around Nevada and the surrounding states. A team consisting of Judge Max Bunch, Commissioner Brian Garner, Lander County Executive Director Gene Etcheverry and two other individuals will review the applicants to narrow the field to three to five companies that will make presentations to the commissioners for them to select the company to take charge of the approximately $19.5 million project.
The proposed date for completion of construction on the project is late May 2014. The RFP outlines that the approximate building size will be 81,750 square feet on a total site of 3.5 acres. The building is going to sit south of the Lander County Sheriff's Office along state Route 305.
The RFP states that the building will house the functions, employees and elected officials of Lander County including the justice and district courts, the County Clerk's Office, the District Attorney's Office, the Finance Department, the Community Development Department, the Yucca Mountain Oversight Program Office, the Department of Motor Vehicles, the Nevada Highway Patrol, the Building and Planning Department and numerous others.
It will also include a county commission chamber and a public meeting/conference room. There will also be a large lobby area to accommodate for elections and various public functions.
Ample storage is proposed to be housed in a full or partial basement. The RFP also states that the building should feature the latest available technologies for energy conservation, information systems, lighting, security and construction methods and materials.
The proposal calls for the year the business was established, the type of firm ownership, information on the parent company, areas of responsibility and the total number of personnel. It requires a firm organization chart, a list of the current workload and who would be the key personnel on the project including resumes as well as past performance, implementation and project experience.
The RFP also asks for litigation and dispute history, safety summaries and insurance and bonding capacity. The companies will be rated on a point system.
Bunch, Garner and Etcheverry have been helping to guide the project along and get it off the ground.
A preliminary conceptual floor plan of the new county complex building was unveiled Oct. 27, 2011, to county commissioners. The conceptual floor plan consists of a rectangular footprint with a c-shaped internal configuration and an enclosed plaza, said Bunch.
A workshop round table discussion for the elected officials and department heads was held Nov. 7, 2011. It was open to the public.
The suggestions were incorporated into the preliminary design, said Bunch.
County engineer Steve Brigman, with Shaw Engineering, and architect Tony Smith, of Anthony Smith Architecture, previously interviewed county officials and department heads to get their input to proceed with a conceptual design. Brigman has helped to coordinate the architectural design process.
Bunch and Garner worked with Smith to refine the conceptual floor plan. Judge Richard Wagner was included in the preliminary process for the district court and the juvenile probation department.
The money for the new building is coming from a mixture of net proceeds and court fees with $10 million coming out of the FY 2011-12 net proceeds and $8 million coming out of the FY 2012-13 net proceeds and $1.5 million coming from court fees.
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