2026-10-15 RFQ-RFP 2026-03 for Bungay Project Constr Mgr.pdf

LEGAL NOTICE

Town of Seymour Public School District and Bungay Elementary School Building Committee

Request for Qualifications and Request for Proposals for Construction Management-At-Risk Services

RFQ/RFP No. 2026-03

State Project No.: 124-0058N

October 15, 2026

The Bungay Elementary School Building Committee (“SBC”) and the Town of Seymour, Connecticut (“Town”) are requesting sealed qualifications and sealed proposals from qualified firms to provide construction management firms to provide pre-construction services, cost estimating, trade contract bidding/negotiation, and construction phase services (“Services”) to the Seymour Public School District (the “District”) and Town, in connection with the design, construction, and closeout of a project for the construction of the new Bungay Elementary School building and grounds and demolition of the existing Bungay Elementary School building at 35 Bungay Road, Seymour, Connecticut 06483. The selected firm will be the construction manager “at-risk” engaged by the Town and SBC to provide construction management services for the construction of the Project pursuant to Connecticut General

Statutes Section 10-287(b)(3) subject to a guaranteed maximum price (“CMR”), and will serve as the “constructor” of the Project. Qualified firms must be pre-qualified by the Connecticut Department of Administrative Services

(“DAS”) under the Construction Manager At Risk Group B or C prequalification classification. The solicitation is both a request for qualifications and a request for proposals (RFQ/RFP). The Town and District are expected to receive a school building construction Priority List project grant from the State of Connecticut through DAS.

The preconstruction and construction phase services and work to be provided selected firm are described in detail in the RFQ/RFP and appended exhibits.

Sealed qualifications and sealed fee proposals in response to the RFQ/RFP (“Submissions”) must be received by the

Town Chief Administrative Officer W. Kurt Miller, on behalf of the SBC, at the office of the Seymour First

Selectwoman, located in Seymour Town Hall at 1 First Street, Seymour, CT 06483, no later than NOVEMBER 4, 2026, 10:00 a.m., after which time the sealed qualifications submissions opened. Submissions must be delivered in hard copy by mail or hand delivery. Facsimile or email proposals will not be accepted. Submissions shall clearly be marked either “Response to Request for Qualifications for Construction Management-At-Risk Services For

The New Bungay Elementary School RFQ/RFP No. 2026-03” or “Response to Request for Proposals for

Construction Management-At-Risk Services For The New Bungay Elementary School RFQ/RFP No. 2026-

03” as applicable, with the name of the Proposer.

The RFQ/RFP, with Instructions to Proposers and other documents which are a part of the RFQ/RFP, are available for downloading on the DAS Contracting Portal which may be accessed at https://portal.ct.gov/das/ctsource/bidboard?language=en_US (“State Portal”) and on the SBC’s website:

https://www.seymourschools.org/district-infomation/bungay-building-committee-information, and may be examined at the office of the Town of Seymour Chief Administrative located at the office of the Seymour First Selectwoman, Seymour Town Hall, at 1 First Street, Seymour, CT 06483 by contacting W. Kurt Miller, Town of Seymour Chief

Administrative Officer via email at kmiller@seymourct.org.

A mandatory pre-submission Project-site walkthrough for interested proposers will be held at Bungay

Elementary School, 35 Bungay Road, Seymour, Connecticut 06483, beginning at 10:00 am on October 21, 2026. Interested proposers should confirm attendance and request instructions for attending via email to Kurt

Miller at kmiller@seymourct.org, cc’d to Jack Butkus, Senior Program Manager for Arcadis U.S., Inc., at john.butkus@arcadis.com.

Any questions and official Requests for information (RFI) by interested proposers regarding the RFQ/RFP shall be submitted in writing in accordance with the Instruction to Proposers. Please see the Instructions to Proposers for details regarding questions and/or RFIs.

This Project is subject to the prevailing wage law requirements of Connecticut General Statutes (CGS) Section 31-

53, et seq.

This Project is partially funded by a Priority List school building project grant from the State of Connecticut under the DAS school construction grant program for public schools. The contract between the Town and CMR is subject to state contract compliance requirements, including nondiscrimination statutes and spending allocation goals.

https://www.seymourschools.org/district-infomation/bungay-building-committee-information

The SBC and the Town reserve the right to amend or withdraw the RFQ/RFP for any reason, to accept or reject any or all qualifications or proposals submitted, to waive any informalities or non-material deficiencies in any such submission(s), and to make such award (or make no award) of a contract in connection with the RFQ/RFP, all as determined by the SBC and/or the Town, in their discretion, to be in the best interest of the Town and District.

Submissions, including qualifications submissions and/or proposals, may be rejected for irregularities of any kind, including without limitation, alteration of form, additions not called for, conditional proposals, and incompleteness.

Submitted qualifications or submitted proposals may also be rejected if, in the opinion of the SBC or Town, the same does not meet the standard of quality established by the RFQ/RFP. Any or all Submissions of qualifications and/or proposals may be rejected if there is any reason to believe that collusion exists among two or more parties who submit qualifications and proposals. The foregoing provisions are for illustrative purposes and shall in no way limit the right of the SBC or Town to reject any and all qualifications or proposals submitted, in whole or in part.

The Town of Seymour and Seymour Public School District are Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employers.

REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS POSTED: OCTOBER 15, 2026