Academic Project:

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Choose a Delivery Method:

Collaborative-Design-Build

This delivery method is a hybrid of the CMAR and DB. In the Phase 1 agreement, the owner and Design-Builder collaborate to develop a set of Design-Build documents and a Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP) based on those documents and a Phase 2 Design-Build agreement as a product of the scope and GMP developed in Phase 1.

Construction Manager At Risk

This delivery method requires a construction manager (CM) to provide preconstruction services (Phase 1) for the design and a separate construction contract (Phase 2) to deliver the project. The design team develops the construction documents with the information provided by the owner and the CM at Phase 1. The CM commits to a Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP) developed throughout Phase 1.

Design-Bid-Build-Major

This is the traditional method of project delivery. It involves three phases: a linear design, bidding and construction. Construction documents are developed first by a design entity. Documents are competitively bid and the project is awarded to the contractor with the lowest price who is qualified, responsive and responsible.

Design-Bid-Build-Minor

Design-Build

For this delivery method, the owner awards a single agreement for design and construction after selecting a project solution through a best value project competition.

TOCA Collaborative Design-Build

This construction contract procurement method is used for performing multiple projects as individual tasks under a single master enabling agreement. Each task can be executed as either a Construction Manager at Risk (CM TOCA) or a Collaborative Design-Build (CDB TOCA) delivery method.

TOCA Construction Manager at Risk

This delivery method is used for performing multiple projects as individual tasks under a single master enabling agreement (MEA). Each task can be executed as either a Construction Manager at Risk (CM TOCA) or a Collaborative Design-Build (CDB TOCA) delivery.

Job Order Contracts

This construction procurement uses an annual contract with a prequalified contractor to accomplish minor capital outlay maintenance, repair or improvement projects by utilizing a construction task catalog for pricing. Design services are typically separate from the JOC contract.

Construction Manager At Risk Steps

B1. Pre-Bid

Pre-Proposal Meetings & Pre-Trade Bid Meetings

Description: Campus staff should review the Construction Manager at Risk (CMAR) Model and Guidelines.

Pre-Proposal Meeting: Attendees should include the Construction Administrator (CA), campus representatives, Alliant and others as needed.

At this meeting you will discuss:

selection of delivery method (consult with CPDC Construction Management staff for advice as needed)
project 2-7 budget, including direct construction costs and soft costs
project schedule
phasing
selection of RFQ/RFQ review committee
review RFQ/RFP documents for inclusion of sufficient information for contractors to respond to RFQ/RFP
all project-specific criteria
program documents
Division 1
Contract General Conditions
Supplementary General Conditions
calendar of events as detailed in the RFQ/RFP templates
Board of Trustees approval of Schematic Design
preconstruction and construction contract durations
liquidated damages and methods to mitigate schedule risk
job walkthrough(s) and preproposal meetings
contractor license requirements
insurance requirements

Pre-Trade Bid Meeting: Prior to giving approval to proceed to bid the trade contractors, the Construction Administrator shall carefully review the project budget against the current estimate, the CMAR bid packages and assure that all trades have been advertised. The campus should witness the CMAR opening of trade bids to assure that it conforms to CSU policy.

References:

State Administrative Manual (SAM), Section 6872
SUAM Sections 9721-9721.10
Construction Management Procedures Manual, Section 3 - Pre-Bid
Business & Professions Code, Sections 7056(A), 7057(B), 7058(C)
Contractors State License Board Regulation 832

Forms & Templates:

Advertising the Project

Description: The campus must advertise all projects in the California State Contracts Register using the Department of General Services's website, Cal eProcure, and run the ad for two weeks, though a longer period may be designated.

It is recommended that the publication of the first ad coincide with the date that documents are available to bidders; the second ad would follow one week later. The campus must also advertise the project in one of the following two ways:

Campus will use newspaper advertising, advertising once a week for two consecutive weeks in a trade newspaper of general circulation, one published in Los Angeles, and one in San Francisco, and in one newspaper of general circulation published in the county in which the campus on which the project is bidding sits; or
Campus may advertise online through the PlanetBids Public Solicitation Portal. Note: All trade bids must be advertised separately from the advertisement for the project RFQ and RFP phase. If desired, and if the trade bids are timed reasonably close to each other, all trades may be publically noticed with advertisement. The campus may assist with the trade bid advertisement by placing the ads on PlanetBids.

Content of Ads: For electronic ads, use the entire Notice to Contractors; for print ads, use Notice Inviting Bids form.

Resources:

References:

SUAM Sections 9723-9723.03 (Advertising Public Works Projects)
Construction Management Procedures Manual, Section 5 (Request for Approval to: Proceed to Bid, Advertise, and Authorization to print front-end documents) and Section 6 (Newspaper Ads)
Public Contract Code Sections 10742 & 10743 (ads)
Public Contract Code Section 3300 (specify license in ad)

Forms & Templates: These documents can be found on the Sample Forms page.

Prepare Bid Packages for Distribution
Notice to Contractors (CMR/CMAR))
Bid Proposal Form (CMR)
Abstract of Bids (CMR)
Bid Proposal Package