EVALUATION+CRITERIA - 2027-RFP-873.pdf

EVALUATION CRITERIA

Proposals must address each of the following criteria, which will be weighted as indicated below.

Points will be awarded in compliance with NMSA 13-1-21 for New Mexico In-State Resident/Native American Business and Resident Veteran/Native American Veteran Business.

If proposal is Joint Venture, Respondent shall state in submitted proposal the percentage of work that will be performed by Resident/Native American Business and/or Resident Veteran/ Native American Veteran Business. Please Note: Respondent cannot be awarded both a resident preference and a resident veteran business preference. Respondent shall include in their proposal a copy of certificate issued by State of New Mexico Taxation & Revenue. Note:

FAILURE to adequately address and meet the above requirements may be cause for the proposal to be deemed non-responsive by the procurement officer.

Weight

Specialized Planning & Design & Technical Competence of Firm regarding the type of services described in Scope of Work

• Vision/mission and business philosophy

• Brief history of firm in New Mexico

• Provide firms’ owner(s), Principal Officers, state date of incorporation

• Describe your firms organization, including joint venture or other form of contractual association Provide number of employees and organization chart

• Provide current resumes for Architects/Engineers, Project Managers, and each additional employee who will be providing services under this project including those required for LEED certification.

• Provide qualifications for each consultant or sub-contractor the firm proposes to use for all consultant and sub contracted work

Capacity and Capability of Firm, including any consultants, their representatives, qualifications and locations, to perform the work, including specialized services, within the time limitations

• Describe your firm’s approach to providing & managing the required services as identified in this RFP.

• Provide information that demonstrates your firms’ and proposed sub-consultants capacity and capability work of the nature and scope of the RFP project.

• Identify any specialized services you feel may be required to complete performance of the proposed projects and describe how your firm proposes to meet those identified needs.

• Describe techniques planned to assure that schedule milestones will be met

• Provide a proposed project timeline, broken down by labor category and level of effort to perform the services described within this RFP

• Outline and completely describe your firms’ commitment and guarantee for the successful completion of the project

• Describe your approach your firm will take to ensure that all specifications, drawings, bid, construction, and design documents will be thorough, accurate and complete

• Describe how does your firm propose to address any deficiencies uncovered in the above documents

• Firm’s ability to incorporate energy conserving and sustainable measures into project design

• Firms approach to project cost estimating.

Past Record of Performance on contracts with government agencies or private industry with respect to such factors as control of costs, quality of work and ability to meet schedules

• Information on last five (5) similar completed architect and engineering projects to include owners, project budget, final cost estimate, bid price including accepted alternates, total number and cost of change order and reasons for change orders.

• Information on these projects showing owners schedule compared to actual project schedule.

• Please explain any project difficulties and how the Offeror handled these issues.

• Please explain control of costs, quality of work and ability to meet schedules.

Proximity to or familiarity with the area in which the project is located

• Indicate previous projects completed in vicinity, including references (Please do not list

NMSU personnel).

Amount of Design work that will be done in New Mexico

• Indicate the volume of work that will be done within the state of New Mexico as a percentage of the total work.

Volume of Work

• State the volume of work previously done for NMSU which is not 75% complete with respect to basic professional design services (at the time this RFP is due). Points will be determined as follows: Value of work not yet completed on projects that are not 75% complete. Points will be allocated for this criteria as follows:

$1 to $25,000 4 $25,001 to $50,000 3 $50,001 to $75,000 2 $75,001 to $100,000 1 $101,000 or more 0

Total Weight 100 New Mexico Resident/Native American Business Preference Eight percent of the total possible points to a resident business. Offeror shall include a copy of their In-State Certificate issued by State of New Mexico Taxation & Revenue Department.

8, or

Veteran/Native American Veteran New Mexico Resident Business Preference :

Ten percent of the total possible points to a resident veteran business. To qualify an Offeror shall include a copy of their Resident Veteran Certificate issued by State of New Mexico Taxation & Revenue Department.

Total Possible Weight and Preference Points: 100-110