RFQs
Requests for Qualified Architects
From the Office of Juan de Onis - Senior Director of Planning - UAB Health System - Posted 5.23.19
Re: REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS
The Facilities and Capital Projects Planning Department on behalf of University Hospital is conducting the Architect selection process for the Project listed below.
Professional services include schematic design, design development, construction document preparation, plan review submittals to local and state agencies, bid/contract award and construction administration. If you would like to be considered for this Project, please provide three complete copies of your submission documentation for the Project to my office by the deadline shown. Please include the following items in your packet:
· Letter of Interest
· Resumes of managing architect and proposed team that will be assigned to the project
· Statement of qualifications (include examples of similar projects completed by the firm)
· References from prior clients on similar type projects completed within the past five years
Firms located outside the State of Alabama should incorporate significant local participation on the project team. Diverse Business Enterprise (DBE) participation is strongly encouraged. If you have any questions regarding this process, please contact Juan de Onis at (205) 934-2586 or by email at jdeonis@uabmc.edu, which is preferred.
Please note that all firms should refrain form contacting members of the Selection Committee as this could disqualify your firm from further consideration.
Thank you in advance for supporting University Hospital with this Project.
Qualification Submittal Deadline: June 7, 2019
Mail to: Physical Address
Juan de Onis 2020 Building
2020 Bldg 2020 University Boulevard
619 19th St S Birmingham, Al
Birmingham, Al 35249
(205) 934- 2586
Renovation to West Pavilion 3rd Floor Nursing Unit
23 Bed Inpatient Unit
Project Description:
UAB Medicine is proposing to renovate West Pavilion 3rd floor (WP 3) into a 23 bed inpatient unit. Currently, WP 3 is occupied by the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit (BMT), and BMT will move to the Women and Infants’ Center in the summer of 2020. The unit currently has 17 inpatient rooms and an adjacent outpatient clinic. Once vacated, the project will construct a new 23 bed Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
University Hospital continues to run a high midnight occupancy census consistently above 85%. The midnight occupancy census shows the number of patients in a staffed and operational bed at midnight; the number is an average over the entire year. During a typical weekday, the hospital cares for a significantly high number of patients as new patients are arriving and receiving care in diagnostic and treatment areas such as the operating rooms, Heart and Vascular Center, Emergency Department, Endoscopy, etc. When medically appropriate, inpatients are discharged from the hospital to home or other appropriate locations. Next, the patient rooms are cleaned and patients from the aforementioned diagnostic and treatment areas are moved into the recently cleaned rooms. At occupancy rates above 85%, any disruption or delay in the system of discharging patients, cleaning the rooms and transporting patients can cause significant delays in areas such as the operating room or emergency department and may prevent the transfer of patients from outside facilities.
Constructing the new 23 bed inpatient unit will increase the staffed and operational bed capacity at University Hospital.
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From the Office of Juan de Onis - Senior Director of Planning - UAB Health System - Posted 5.23.19
Re: REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS
The Facilities and Capital Projects Planning Department on behalf of UAB Callahan Eye Hospital is conducting the Architect selection process for the Project listed below.
Professional services include schematic design, design development, construction document preparation, plan review submittals to local and state agencies, bid/contract award and construction administration. If you would like to be considered for this Project, please provide three complete copies of your submission documentation for the Project to my office by the deadline shown. Please include the following items in your packet:
· Letter of Interest
· Resumes of managing architect and proposed team that will be assigned to the project
· Statement of qualifications (include examples of similar projects completed by the firm)
· References from prior clients on similar type projects completed within the past five years
Firms located outside the State of Alabama should incorporate significant local participation on the project team. Diverse Business Enterprise (DBE) participation is strongly encouraged. If you have any questions regarding this process, please contact Juan de Onis at (205) 934-2586 or by email at jdeonis@uabmc.edu, which is preferred.
Please note that all firms should refrain form contacting members of the Selection Committee as this could disqualify your firm from further consideration.
Thank you in advance for supporting University Hospital with this Project.
Qualification Submittal Deadline: June 7, 2019
Mail to: Physical Address
Juan de Onis 2020 Building
2020 Bldg 2020 University Boulevard
619 19th St S Birmingham, Al
Birmingham, Al 35249
(205) 934- 2586
Construction of Inpatient Nursing Unit
Callahan Eye Hospital
Project Description:
UAB Callahan Eye Hospital is proposing to renovate the 5th floor of the Medical Office Building into a 19 bed inpatient unit and add a bridge connecting Callahan Eye and UAB Hospital across 7th Avenue South. Closely integrated, UAB Callahan Eye Hospital (CEH) and UAB Hospital share resources such as lab services, information technology support, food and nutrition services and others. The ability to move patients between facilities and further share resources is limited by the reality the two facilities are not physically connected; this project will remedy that. The addition of the 19 beds will serve both facilities; for CEH, the addition of the 19 beds will increase the hospital’s inpatient census. For UAB Hospital, the 19 additional beds are needed capacity to alleviate a taxed system and cohort patients.
The 5th floor of UAB CEH has been used as an ambulatory clinic; the floor can be vacated and renovated into a 19 bed unit. The services anticipated to occupy the unit are a cohort of Neuroscience and Medical patients, and the Neuroscience cohort will require seizure-monitoring services. These seizure-monitoring patients typically have scheduled admissions and require limited support from diagnostic and testing capabilities located off the unit. The unit requires specialized equipment installed in the room, which monitors patients’ seizure activity during their stay. The other group of patients likely to be cared for in the unit are general medicine patients.
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