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Board of Commissioners - Public Works - To Authorize the County Manager, or Her Designee, to Execute a Professional Services Contract with McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture for the Programming of the Public Safety Campus
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STAFF CONTACT
Dan Ziehm, PE - Public Works Director - 704-862-6795
BUDGET IMPACT
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No additional County funds.
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BUDGET ORDINANCE IMPACT
N/A
BACKGROUND
Gaston County previously contracted with an outside firm to complete a Facility Master Plan which included a comprehensive County-wide facility needs assessment. The document serves as a strategic guide to better integrate, support, and transition current program and service facilities for future needs. The study findings indicated that staff and citizen demand and industry standards had outgrown several County facilities and/or resulted in substandard conditions to meet current community needs. Gaston County recently acquired land centrally located in the County to accommodate a combined Public Safety Campus. The first step of the design process includes Programming, which will assist in updating and refining the needs previously identified in the Facility Master Plan. The Programming phase will further evaluate current and projected future needs for the agencies to be housed on the Public Safety Campus. Information gained through Programming will provide detailed data for future facility design.
North Carolina General Statute (NCGS) ?143-64.31 requires the initial solicitation and evaluation of firms to perform architectural, engineering, surveying, construction management-at-risk services, and design-build services (collectively "design services") to be based on qualifications and without regard to fee. NCGS ?143-64.32 authorizes units of local government to exempt contracts for design services from the qualifications-based selection requirements of NCGS ?143-64.31 if the estimated fee is less than $50,000. However, the design fees for this project will exceed the $5...
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