NWK DVA STL Industry Day 20251217.pdf

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VA JOHN J COCHRAN DIVISION, ST LOUIS, MO

REPLACE BED TOWER, CLINICAL EXPANSION, & PARKING GARAGES

Industry Webinar December 17, 2025

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VA JOHN COCHRAN DIVISION, ST. LOUIS, MO

SENIOR EXECUTIVE BOARD

PROCUREMENT INTEGRITY

Procurement Integrity is my Contracting Officer priority throughout the acquisition process. Procurement integrity begins now in these early pre-solicitation exchanges. USACE will conduct a fair and impartial procurement from market research to source selection and award. All materials and information pertaining to acquisition planning and source selection are protected.

We anticipate early and continuous information exchanges with industry throughout the acquisition. The exchanges will become formal after we post the solicitation.

We have default processes in place to protect all materials and information that you decide to share with USACE.

We consider this procurement sensitive information. We all have a personal and organizational responsibility to maintain procurement integrity. If you do share proprietary or confidential information, please identify it as proprietary or confidential.

To help us manage the keeping your information confidential, I ask that you only email, send questions and information to me and Michael France. Our Use the both of us as your USACE POCs.

PROJECT AUTHORIZATION

2010 Requirements Gathering $43M

2022 CA $135M

FY26 Appropriation $1.62B

VA PROGRAM OVERVIEW

VA St. Louis Health Care System A full-service health care facility providing inpatient and ambulatory care in medicine, surgery, psychiatry, neurology, and rehabilitation, as well as over 65 subspecialty areas. It is a two-division facility that serves veterans and their families in east central Missouri and southwestern Illinois.

The John Cochran (JC) Division Located in midtown St. Louis at 915 N Grand Blvd near its affiliated medical schools - St. Louis University and Washington University. It has all of the medical center’s operative surgical capabilities, the ambulatory care unit, and a six-story Clinical Addition that includes surgical facilities, intensive care units, outpatient psychiatry clinics, and expanded laboratory.

DVA Major Project 657-309 Addresses a variety of issues including patient safety and privacy, physical security, mission critical mandates, building seismic deficiencies, facility condition deficiencies, and lack of on-site parking; all working to improve and “right-size” the medical center. Many existing inpatient functions will be relocated into a new seismically designed bed tower. New work includes a Seismically Designed Inpatient Tower, Central Energy Plant, IT/Engineering/Admin Facilities, Substance Abuse Clinic, Elevated Parking, Water Storage (96hr Supply) and Demolition of Aged/Deficient Ancillary Buildings.

Rogers, Lovelock, & Fritz (RLF) Architect and Engineering Services – Designer of Record

PROGRAM PARTNERSHIPS

Department of Veterans Affairs

• Office of Construction & Facilities Management

• St Louis Health Care System, Major Projects Services

Jacobs Government’s Commissioning Agent (CxA)

Schematic Site Plan

KEY MILESTONES

Advertise AE SATOC JAN 2026

Award AE SATOC JAN 2027

Advertise IDaC 3QFY26

Award IDaC JAN 2027

FY26 VA Appropriation 2QFY26

FY26 VA Authorization 4QFY26

Design Resumes APR 2027

JC Division - 915 N Grand Blvd

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PROGRAM MILESTONE SCHEDULE

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Advertise ICT Swing Space & Utility Relocations FEB 2026 Advertise AE SATOC JAN 2026 Phase 1 Advertise Northeast Parking Structure APR 2026 Advertise VA Swing Space APR 2026 IDaC Solicitation 3Q FY26

AE SATOC Award JAN 2027 IDaC Award JAN 2027 Task Order 1 - Validate SD-1 JAN 2027 Task Order 2 – Design Progression Resumes APR 2027

PROGRAM AND BED TOWER SCOPE

• Relocates in-patient functions from a seismically deficient building into a new seismically designed bed tower.

• Improve inpatient privacy by eliminating existing double and triple occupancy inpatient rooms.

• Allows for Primary Care, Women's Health and Outpatient Mental Health

Services to be brought back on campus.

• Relocates SCI Hub to tertiary care facility from Jefferson Barracks and adds SCI Inpatient Beds

• Corrects vertical transport constraint for complex surgical cases

• Corrects safety, physical security, and mission critical resiliency deficiencies

• Replaces seismically deficient mission critical CUP (Central Utility Plant)

• Leading VHA’s HVAC design response to pandemic mode operations

• VASTLHCS is a FEMA designated COOP facility

* Overall, the JC Major Project right sizes the Medical Center and builds a new campus to meet current VA Design Criteria.

Property acquisition and street vacation

PROGRAM AND BED TOWER SCOPE

New Construction Details Inpatient Bed Tower 585,000 SF IRM/Engineering/Warehouse 54,000 SF Central Utility Plant 94,000 SF Treatment Clinic 5,100 SF Additional Parking 1,900 approx. spaces

(3 garages and surface lot)

INTEGRATED DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OVERVIEW

A-E

CONCEPT

DESIGN

35% DESIGN 65% DESIGN 95% DESIGN 100% DESIGN

PRECONSTRUCTION SERVICES

RFP FOR OPTION

CONSTRUCTION

DESIGN

BUILDER

A-E

CONCEPT

DESIGN

35% DESIGN 65% DESIGN 95% DESIGN 100% DESIGN

CONSTRUCTION

DESIGN

BUILDER

A-E

CONCEPT

DESIGN

35% DESIGN 65% DESIGN 95% DESIGN 100% DESIGN

DESIGN

BUILDERPr oj ec t D el iv er y

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IDaC

D-B-B

D-B

RFP

RFP CONSTRUCTION

INTEGRATED DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OVERVIEW

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Integrated Design and Construction Key Objectives

• IDAC is D-B-B

• Design and construction services are contracted concurrently through two efforts.

A-E Services for Complete Design

Pre-Construction Services with Construction Options

• Award construction contractor services early in the project's development.

• Enables the builder's early engagement with the Designer of Record to provide:

Constructability

Cost Input

End Goal Cost-effective design and construction solution with better alignment of scope and budget.

USACE

DOR

CONSULTANTS

BUILDER

SUBCONTRACTOR

COLLABORATION

STAKEHOLDER

PRECONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES

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-Preconstruction Services include:

-Consultation in construction methodology, current market conditions and identification of coordination issues; Phasing

-Construction cost estimates -to validate designer prepared estimates at each review phase -for alternative designs and materials -for changed market conditions

-Cost control when there is a significant difference or the construction estimate exceeds the target, the estimates will be examined to determine the cause for the differences and steps made to correct the Government or contractor estimates

NOTE: The contractor shall not be responsible for any design services.

The responsibility of the design will remain wholly with the Designer of Record.

AE Contract 15% Design 35% Review 65% Review 95% Review 100% Complete

Construction Contract … Issue RFP to convert Option

PreConst Services Construction

PLANNED ACQUISITION ACTIVITIES

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December 2025: Industry Webinar

January 2026: Update Market Research and Project Labor Market Survey (PLA)

March 2026: Issue Draft IDaC RFP for comments

April 2026: One-on-One Feedback Meetings to Interested Firms

September 2026: Target IDaC Advertisement

January 2027: Award IDaC Contract / Preconstruction Services

SENIOR EXECUTIVE BOARD

QUESTIONS & CLOSING REMARKS

Questions on any information in the sources sought?

Questions on milestones or schedule?

Questions on funding?