Specifications include, but are not limited to: The successful Prime Proposer will be asked to negotiate a single contractual agreement under which the successful Prime Proposer will lead a Design Build Team to design, construct and deliver on a “turn-key” basis, the Project as described herein. Each Prime Proposing party’s proposal must comply with the requirements of this Section. The County desires to select a cooperative, highly functional design-build team to provide a “turn-key” project that fully meets the County’s needs. The design build approach is intended to allow designers, contractors, and the owner to work together to address each of these challenges concurrently, to produce an effective, comprehensive design and construction process that meets all of these needs. The County will request the Design Build Team to complete a project that provides the highest design and construction quality, all within the established project budget and negotiated Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP). The County will encourage the development of such creative options to maximize the value of the end product received. The agreement between Knox County and the successful Prime Proposer will be drafted by Knox County Procurement. While Knox County is employing this method to encourage a cooperative approach, the contractual agreement will be between Knox County and the successful Prime Proposer. A draft of the contract to be utilized is included in the RFP as Exhibit 1 for reference. The Design Build Team will be responsible for obtaining all data and information sources in order to provide design plans, restoration specifications and complete construction of the following in conjunction with the Feasibility Study, provided in Exhibit 7, and the specific tasks outlined below. 4.1.1 Design and coordinate a plan for the Coward Mill Dam Removal. 4.1.2 Complete the dam removal. 4.1.3 Create and implement a restoration plan for the newly exposed creekbanks in previously backwatered areas and at the dam removal site. This may include bank and bed stabilization and riparian buffer establishment to be composed of planted native bottomland hardwood forest community. 4.1.4 Develop and execute a monitoring and maintenance plan after project completion for three (3) growing seasons once planting and stabilization is complete. This includes all permitting, utility, railroad and FEMA coordination. Additionally, a project to improve Coward Mill Road involving the construction of a new bridge immediately upstream may overlap with the dam removal. Thus, coordination with the bridge construction may be required.
