Approved Architect Bench

The District currently has an active program at all four sites and requires Architectural services to continue to move forward. The Department of General Services has solicited experienced and proven firms to submit their qualifications to provide full architectural planning, programming, and design services for the District’s Measure A and Measure G Bond Programs.

The District has issued a Request for Qualification (RFQ) in August that defined the architectural services requirements. The District’s goal in issuing the RFQ was to select a pool of experienced architectural firms that can provide planning, programming, and design services. From there, the District intends to issue a Request for Proposals (RFP) to select one or more qualified firm(s) from that pool to provide said services to the District as needed.

This list of firms will be a preferred vendor list of consultants that we have already prequalified to work on large and small projects. The fees for the services will be paid from the appropriate budget when services are required. Board approval will be requested as needed when firms are hired for specifically identified projects district-wide.

The RFQ has been publicly advertised, and qualifications were received and reviewed by a committee composed of DGS staff, the Program Manager, and the Campus Construction Management Firms. The review consisted of required experience with education sectors and state agencies for specific projects, along with additional data that was called out in the RFQ to aid in completing specific services.