Specifications include, but are not limited to: Project Planning and Management The Consultant will work with Georgia Tech and the design and construction members to establish communication protocols amongst all the stakeholders. The consultant will establish a meeting structure and develop procedures for convening, chairing, attendance, function, frequency and responsibility for recording meetings and the subsequent circulation of information. The consultant shall utilize the Georgia Tech BIM Standards as a basis for the planning and management of all activities under this IDIQ contract. Design Support The Consultant will provide full Building Information Modeling (BIM) support in the modeling of the project design to facilitate the visualization and development of the costs and schedule. The Consultant will assist the design team with the BIM standards for the model and guide the model development to ensure transferability to the estimating and scheduling software being utilized. The Consultant will review each model deliverable during the design process and assist the design team with resolving system to system and component to component conflicts. Conceptual Design The Consultant will establish the stakeholder team and confirm the project goals and objectives to include full project program requirements, sustainability goals and the project parameters as well as to confirm the design professional’s conceptual design. The participants will discuss alternatives and options for the design. The BIM model, costs and schedule will be continuously updated with real-time feedback to the stakeholders on alternatives considered and selections made. The initial budget and schedule will be established for the project with agreement on the construction plan and sequence and critical milestones. Schematic Design The Consultant will establish a continuous feedback loop with the design professional as to cost and schedule implications of design decisions and the initial energy analysis. The estimating and scheduling team will work with the CM in developing iterative cost and schedule analysis. As individual sustainable design features are identified during the design process, they will be individually assessed as to their qualitative merits and life cycle costs relative to baseline design features. Construction Market Analysis The Consultant and CM will work to conduct a review of available resources that will include subcontractor availability and bonding capacity, competing projects, labor availability and costs, construction risk factors and risk impact, material availability and costs as well as special conditions. The Consultant will work with the CM to contact local construction market representatives and interview their estimators, bid preparers and management to record their concerns regarding costs. The consultant will also contact the local labor trade representatives for an assessment of labor availability, levels of training that affect productivity and recently constructed facilities owners, managers and constructors for a thorough understanding of projects recently completed in the area. This information will be incorporated into the detailed estimate.