LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

NOTICE TO TRADE CONTRACTORS

MASSACHUSETTS BAY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY

Request for Qualifications

For Trade Contractor Packages

Masonry; Miscellaneous and Ornamental Iron; Glass and Glazing;  Roofing and Flashing; Painting;  Elevators; Fire Protection Sprinkler System; Plumbing; Heating;  Ventilation & Air-Conditioning; and Electrical.

MBTA Contract No. CMR-92  -  Salem Station Improvements and Parking Garage, Salem, MA

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) requests that qualified and experienced Trade Subcontractors submit Trade Contractor Statement of Qualifications Forms to the MBTA Bid Room, Room 6720, Ten Park Plaza, Boston, MA 02116, no later than 12:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, Friday May 24, 2013.

SCOPE:  The Project consists of a five level pre-cast concrete open air parking garage having a footprint of approximately 127′-0” x 386′-0”. The garage will have a covered pedestrian walkway of approximately 15′-0” x 25′-0”. The garage will be constructed with the following: precast structure; precast exterior panels;  roofing; two precast concrete stairways; two elevators; emergency generator; signage; snow melting equipment; metal bike cage, office and toilet room, mechanical rooms, raised platform for commuter trains and buses, driveways, pedestrian walks and landscaping, security equipment; automated parking equipment; lighting; HVAC; and curtainwall systems.

This Request for Qualifications (“RFQ”) is the first phase of a two-phase procurement process as set forth in

MGL Chapter 149A. The MBTA through its Trade Contractor Prequalification Committee is prequalifying firms interested in providing public Trade Contractor services on this Public Construction Manager at Risk (“CM at Risk”) Project for the construction of commuter rail station improvements and a new Salem Parking Garage, through this RFQ process.

Trade Contractor Statement of Qualifications Forms from interested trade subcontractors are sought for the following categories of work: Masonry (ECC $222,814), Miscellaneous and Ornamental Iron (ECC $544,667), Roofing and Flashing (ECC $130,741), Glass and Glazing (ECC $880,243), Painting (ECC $83,595), Elevators (ECC $1,990,000), Fire Protection Sprinkler System (ECC $49,709Plumbing (ECC $301,813), Heating Ventilation & Air-Conditioning (ECC $153,000) and Electrical (ECC $1,926,000). Only prequalified firms will be permitted to submit bids for the category of work in which they were prequalified. The Construction Manager is Consigli Construction Company, Inc. and the Project Designer is Fennick McCredie Architecture, LTD.

Statements of Qualifications in response to the RFQ shall be evaluated in accordance with the following criteria: (1) Management Experience; (2) References including a Public Project Record and (3) Capacity to Complete Projects.  The MBTA intends to award five (5) points to any Supplier Diversity Office (SDO) certified DBE trade contractor.  In order to receive the 5 points, the trade contractor must provide with their submittal a current SDO certification.  A pending certification will not be accepted.  All interested trade contractors shall be eligible to respond to the RFQ and participate in the prequalification process. Each response submitted by a trade contractor in response to the RFQ shall be signed under pains and penalties of perjury. Financial information provided in response to the RFQ shall remain confidential and shall not be a public record as defined in section 7 of Massachusetts General Laws chapter 4 and shall not be open to public inspection, to the fullest extent possible under the law.

A Request for Qualifications (RFQ) may be obtained by sending an e-mail request to MBTA-Specifications@mbta.com. Upon receipt of the request an electronic copy of the RFQ will be sent to the e-mail requesting the document. The RFQ will be available on or after Thursday, May 9, 2013.

A list of the pre-qualified Trade Contractors for this project shall be posted on the MBTA website at the location listed here:     http://www.mbta.com/about_the_mbta/t_projects/default.asp?id=22490 but there shall be no public opening of responses.