MEMORANDUM

TO: Pete Sprague, Assembly President

Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly Members

THRU: Dale Bagley, Mayor

Scott Holt, Finance Director

Mark Fowler, Purchasing & Contracting Officer

Walter Robson, P.E., PW/Major Projects Manager

FROM: John E. Smith, Major Capital Projects Administrator

DATE: December 3, 2003

SUBJECT: Resolution 2003-127, Award of Professional and Design Services for the Central Peninsula General Hospital Expansion, Remodel, and Renovation

The Purchasing and Contracting Office solicited and opened bids for this project on November 25, 2003. The Request for Proposals was advertised in the Anchorage Daily News and Peninsula Clarion, on October 23 and 30, and the Homer News and Seward Log on October 23, 2003.

59 companies requested and received copies of the RFP. Six responsive proposals were received on November 25, 2003. The Evaluation Committee members individually reviewed and scored the proposals based on criteria contained in the RFP. The results are summarized as follows:

Company Total Score

Architects Alaska 506.01

Clark Kjos Architects 479.99

Bezek Durst Seiser 434.19

Livingston Slone 509.34

Rim/KMD 507.52

Soderstrom Architects 528.50

Soderstrom Architecture and Planning, Inc. was the high scorer and was selected to provide professional and design services for this project. The funding for this award is through KPB Ordinance 2003-19-28, which appropriates $1,500,000 for preliminary design of the Central Peninsula General Hospital Expansion Project. The second half of the design award will follow once the balance of project funding is appropriated through an Ordinance to be introduced when the bond sale is complete.

The attached Resolution requests award of contract for preliminary design development to Soderstrom Architects for the proposed fee of $761,096.00.

Attachments: Resolution 2003-