With this Request for Qualifications (RFQ), the County is seeking a Consultant to evaluate two options in an initial Phase 1: • Option 1: Consultant will provide a proposal to prepare a detailed evaluation of work that would be needed to upgrade and renovate the current food preparation kitchen to fully support the Event Center’s meetings and events. This evaluation will include a detailed design layout, list of equipment, and estimated soft and hard cost budgets to deliver an upgraded food preparation kitchen. • Option 2: Consultant will provide a proposal to prepare a design layout, list of equipment and facility upgrades, and hard and soft cost budgets to upgrade to a full commercial kitchen with cooking and food warming capabilities. This could better serve the Event Center’s hosting of meetings and events, and potentially, facilitate an expanded role for the Event Center, such as becoming a visitor center/hub for the wine-growing region, if the County were to pursue this at some future time. The County may choose to extend the Consultant’s scope to add a second phase of work. Phase 2 would entail developing construction-ready drawings, specifications, construction administration services, and all information required to meet current building code requirements for one or both of the options evaluated in the first phase of work. Responses to this RFQ should include the Consultant’s estimated cost to perform and deliver the Phase 1 scope of work, as well a projected timeframe for delivering this work.
