Title
Subcontractor Pre-qualifications - Construction Manager @ Risk for Latta Place
Action
ACTION:
Authorize the Subcontractor Pre-qualification procedure provided by Elford, Inc. for the Latta Place project.
Staff Contact: Karen Weston-Chien, ASLA, Project Manager Asset and Facility Management
Presentation: No
BACKGROUND/JUSTIFICATION:
The Board of County Commissioners authorized the use of the Construction Manager @ Risk Contract Methodology for this project at the June 4, 2024, BOCC meeting in accordance with G.S. 143-128.1
Revisions to state law 2014-42 (H1043), amends G.S. 143-135.8 by establishing specific procedural requirements for when and how local governments may prequalify construction contractors to bid on construction and repair contracts. These requirements also apply to the prequalification of subcontractors by a Construction Manager at Risk under G.S. 143-128.1(c).
Elford Inc. has provided a prequalification process based on the statutory requirements that meet the following criteria:
1. Be uniform, consistent, and transparent in its application to all bidders.
2. Allow all bidders who meet the prequalification criteria to be prequalified to bid on the construction or repair work project (in other words, a bidder who meets the prequalification criteria must be allowed to bid on the project).
3. The prequalification criteria, which must comply with all of the following:
a. Be rationally related to construction or repair work.
b. Not require that the bidder has previously been awarded a construction or repair project by the governmental entity.
c. Permit bidders to submit history or experience with projects of similar size, scope or complexity.
4. Clearly state the assessment process for the criteria to be used.
5. Establish a process for a bidder to protest to the governmental entity its denial of prequalification. The protest process must be completed prior to the bid opening to allow sufficient time for a bidder whose protest is successful to submit a bid on that project.
6. Outline a process by which the basis for denial of prequalification will be communicated in writing, upon request, to a bidder who is denied prequalification.
The focus of these requirements is to ensure that a prequalification process is conducted transparently, using criteria that relates to the specific project being bid and are applied objectively and fairly to all bidders. The requirements also give bidders an opportunity to learn why they were denied prequalification and can appeal that denial.
Per the County’s Business Diversity and Inclusion (BDI) Provisions, the Construction Manager plans to meet or exceed the following County MWBE goals for participation in construction subcontracts:
MBE - 15%
WBE - 8%
Total Goal - 23%
PROCUREMENT BACKGROUND:
N/A
POLICY IMPACT:
Construction Manager @ Risk Contracts, G.S. 143-128.1 (a-e)
FISCAL IMPACT:
N/A
ATTACHMENT(S):
Elford, Inc. - Prequalification Form & Scorecard