Specifications include, but are not limited to: W&R is inviting proposals for professional architectural and engineering (A/E) design and construction services for the anticipated W&R Infrastructure. W&R anticipates the following buildings or services requiring engineering and architectural design as part of this Request for Proposals (RFP): • Education and administrative center that will serve as office and breakroom facilities for W&R staff and include community space for educational programs. Facility design should consider potential expansion for leasable space to host other businesses. • Scale office and scales for tracking incoming materials with flexibility to track outgoing materials for recycling and/or reuse operations. • Maintenance facility for servicing fleet vehicles and heavy equipment required for landfill operations and/or recycling activities. Facility would need to have storage space for housing spare parts and equipment required for operations. • Material drop-off area(s) where materials can be collected, stored, and transferred to a reuse or recycling facility. At a minimum, this is anticipated to include areas for tires, shingles, wood, select residential materials (e.g. mattresses, food waste, etc.), and an area for commercial can storage. Prepare a Needs Assessment Report consisting of text, tables, drawings, and other documents that: • Evaluates current and future space needs for employees, customers, and visitors for each component of the W&R Infrastructure. • Estimates building square footage (where applicable), footprints for each component of the W&R Infrastructure, and remaining available lands that allow for future growth. • Evaluates work and traffic flow for all components of the W&R Infrastructure. • Identifies potential features, programs, or functional requirements for each component of the W&R Infrastructure. This will include gathering information from anticipated W&R Infrastructure users, subject to approval by the W&R Project Manager. o Examples of potential features, programs, or functional requirements may range from civil features (fencing, lighting, curb and gutter, etc.), employee or visitor wellbeing (e.g. breakrooms, restrooms, office and/or flexible workspace, conference rooms, security, SCADA systems, parking, etc.) to sustainability initiates (geothermal heating and cooling, solar panels, rain gardens, etc.). o Each option must contain a budgetary number for design, construction, and operational costs (if applicable). • Provides options and recommendations for cost-value tradeoffs. o W&R reserves the right to ultimately add or remove features from the W&R Infrastructure. • Estimates wastewater discharge from proposed W&R Infrastructure. • Evaluates fire protection flows against proposed buildings uses. • Reviews and provides recommendations for potential revisions to the lot lines. • Includes budgetary design and construction numbers for each component of the W&R Infrastructure. • Evaluates available funds for the project (i.e. grants, tax incentives, City of Madison TIF, etc.), determines potential gaps in funding, and identifies potential funding sources for the W&R Infrastructure. • Provides recommendations for potential construction phasing schedules that align with either concurrent or future work at the Sustainability Campus.
