SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- JFK Memorial Design and Development Services
- Notice Date
- 5/17/2017
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541310
— Architectural Services
- Contracting Office
- John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, CONTRACTING, CONTRACTING, JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, 2700 F STREET, N.W., Washington, District of Columbia, 20566, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20566
- Solicitation Number
- 33310517R0020
- Archive Date
- 7/8/2017
- Point of Contact
- Peter G. Smingler, Phone: 202-416-7993, Hodford R. Brown, Phone: 202-416-7953
- E-Mail Address
-
pgsmingler@kennedy-center.org, hrbrown@kennedy-center.org
(pgsmingler@kennedy-center.org, hrbrown@kennedy-center.org)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has built a reputation as one of the paramount performing arts centers in the nation. While the spirit and ideals often ascribed to our 35th president are embodied within the mission and the daily operations of the Center, members of the general public who are not frequent patrons or longtime Kennedy Center members often are unaware that the facility is also a living Federal memorial to him. The 50th anniversary of the Kennedy Center's opening, which will be celebrated in 2021, presents an opportunity to reimagine the Kennedy Center as the Living Memorial to President Kennedy. The Kennedy Center has a mission-driven objective to make the organization known as more than a performance venue and arts education provider: we strive to inspire increased awareness of, and visitation to, the Living Memorial to JFK by creating a deeper understanding of his life, his legacy, and his dedication to the performing arts, and also by ensuring every visitor feels welcomed and valued. The Kennedy Center is developing a three-phased approach for the planning and implementation of a series of public space renovations or modifications over the next five (5) years which will: • Enhance visitor awareness of President Kennedy and his contributions to cultural life in America. • Make the Kennedy Center a gathering place for people and communities. Phase I will be led by a "Creative Placemaker" supported by a "Designer." Phase II will be led by a "Designer" supported by a "Creative Placemaker." Phase III will be led by a Construction Contractor. These roles are described below. The public spaces under consideration are the Grand Foyer, the Hall of Nations, the Hall of States, the spaces immediately outside Theaters, the Atrium, the Expansion, and areas outside the Kennedy Center Facility but within the Kennedy Center campus. The JFKC site is bounded by: • North:The South curbs of New Hampshire Avenue and F Street • East:The Western most retaining walls and curbs of the Inner Loop Freeway • South:The Northernmost retaining walls and curbs of the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge • West:The Easternmost retaining walls and curbs of the Rock Creek Parkway The role of the Creative Placemaker would consist of four primary elements: • Perform research to understand the relationship of the Kennedy Center to the people and communities of Washington, DC; the Washington metropolitan area; the United States; and the world. • Facilitate public engagements to bring partners in the public and private sectors, local and institutional leadership, artists, and other community stakeholders into the process, working with the "Designer" to create spatial intervention concepts and designs. • Evaluate and analyze, both in the short-term and in the long-term, each spatial intervention concept to assess its contribution to awareness of President Kennedy and/or the enhancement of the Kennedy Center as a local/regional/national/global gathering place. • Develop assessments and evaluative tools by which to document the degree of ongoing effectiveness of newly constructed spatial interventions in meeting the Kennedy Center's goals of institutional awareness and an enhanced gathering space. The role of the "Designer" (Architect - Engineer, see FAR 2.101 and FAR Subpart 36.6) will consist of five elements: • Support the "Creative Placemaker" throughout the creation of spatial intervention concepts and designs through advice and recommendations concerning feasibility and constructability with finite public funding. • Develop, with the support of the "Creative Placemaker," schematics for those concepts and designs which the Kennedy Center approves for further consideration. • Support the Kennedy Center Project Manager and Contracting Officer during the solicitation and award of construction contracts based upon the schematics. • Following approval of schematics, partner with the Construction Contractor to incorporate constructability feedback into design development documents and ultimately construction documents. • Provide construction administration services, supporting the Kennedy Center Project Manager and Contracting Officer, during construction. The role of the Construction Contractor (see FAR 2.101 and FAR Part 36) will consist of two elements: • Partner with the "Creative Placemaker and Designer" by providing constructability feedback during the development of 100% specifications and drawings. • Construction of approved projects. The Kennedy Center intends to solicit and award two (2) separate single award base year and four (4) one (1) year option year Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) Task Order Contracts. The first Contract will be for the "Creative Placemaker and Designer." We envision that this may be a Joint Venture, legally established, in which the "Creative Placemaker" initially leads and the "Designer" supports but that, as concepts or schematic designs are approved, the lead will reverse as the "Designer" begins to develop design development drawings. A high, but not absolute, preference for a Joint Venture relationship will be established in the Solicitation and Source Selection Evaluation Criteria. The Kennedy Center recognizes that there may be a limited number of established "Creative Placemakers" who would qualify to be awarded a Federal Contract. At the same time, we are aware that "Designer" A-E firms may include personnel who have education and experience that qualifies them as "Creative Placemakers." The second Contract will be for a Construction Contractor that will be responsible for partnering with the "Creative Placemaker and Designer" to develop construction drawings and specifications, and for the construction of approved designs. The purpose of this combined sources sought and RFI (Request for Information) is multi-fold: • To establish public awareness of the intent of the Kennedy Center to enhance its public presence as a National Destination. • To notify the broadest possible audience of "Creative Placemakers," "Designers," and Construction Companies of the opportunity to compete for either the "Creative Placemaker and Designer" Contract or the Construction Contract. • To gauge the availability and interest of qualified firms capable of these types of services. Interested parties are encouraged to self-register (See "Add Me To Interested Vendors" at the bottom of this notice.). • To invite comment on the "Creative Placemaker and Designer" Joint Venture as a strategy to meet the Kennedy Center's goals. • To invite comment on the concept of involving a broad audience in the "Creative Placemaker" process. A Presolicitation Conference will be held in the Kennedy Center Family Theater on Friday, June 16, 2017 from 3:00 until 5:00 PM. Potential offerors will have an opportunity to hear Ms. Deborah Rutter, President and other senior Kennedy Center personnel present their vision of what their expectations for the future of the Kennedy Center are and how this requirement will play a vital role in helping to accomplish them. Potential offerors will also have an opportunity to participate in a discussion with the senior Kennedy Center personnel. Potential offerors interested in attending the Conference are invited to indicate their desire to attend by submitting the name, title, company, address, email address, and primary telephone number for no more than three (3) attendees per company to Peter Smingler at email pgsmingler@kennedy-center.org. Parties interested in submitting comments which are intended to be considered in finalizing the "Creative Placemaker and Designer" solicitation are invited to do so by email to Peter Smingler at pgsmingler@kennedy-center.org no later than Friday, June 23, 2017. Specific time frames for release of the solicitations have not yet been finalized. This announcement is not a Request for Proposal (RFP) or an Invitation for Bid (IFB), nor is it to be construed as a commitment by the Government. The Government does not intend to contract on the basis of this request or otherwise pay for any information solicited herein.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 2700 F Street NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20566, United States
- Zip Code: 20566
- Zip Code: 20566
- Record
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