Downtown Advisory Board
Meeting of: 08-09-16
To: Chairman and Board Members
From: Office of the City Manager
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Presentation and discussion of the Center for Arts, Innovation and Creativity Request for Proposal Project
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Background:
The ArtsOk Regional Arts Alliance of Broken Arrow and the City of Broken Arrow are jointly working together to design and eventually construct a Center for Arts, Innovation and Creativity located in the Rose District in downtown Broken Arrow. The Advisory Committee that oversees this project on behalf of the ArtsOK Regional Arts Alliance of Broken Arrow has established a Sub-Committee along with members of the City of Broken Arrow staff and a representative of the Downtown Advisory Board\Main Street Merchants Association to select a registered professional architectural firm to design the desired facility.
The first step with respect to the selection of the professional architectural firm was to solicit Letters of Interest (LOI) from the professional architectural community. The LOI's were sent out to the professional architectural community on May 5, 2016, with a due date of May 20, 2016. Staff received Letters of Interest from 24 architectural firms. In accordance with the next step in the selection process, the Sub-Committee sent out Requests for Proposals (RFP's) for professional architectural services regarding the Center for Arts, Innovation and Creativity to the 24 firms that responded to the LOI on June 15, 2016. As of July 14, 2016, the due date to respond to the RFP, 14 firms provided the requested proposals. The Sub-Committee reviewed and evaluated the Proposals and has developed a ranking of the 14 responding firms based upon a pre-determined scoring system. The Sub-Committee will schedule interviews later this month with the top ranking firms in order to narrow the selection to the top firm.
Once the top architectural firm is selecte...
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