Specifications include, but are not limited to:The Chicago Park District (“CPD”) invites experienced architectural, engineering, and landscape architectural firms or consultants to submit their qualifications for possible inclusion in the Architecture and Engineering Services pre-qualified pool (“DES pool”). There are four (4) categories of work for this pool, and firms can submit their qualifications for one, some, or all four categories work: (i) Architecture; (ii) Civil and Structural Engineering; (iii) Landscape Architecture; and (iv) Environmental Engineering (See Categories Form on p. 58). Pre-qualification will be awarded by category. If the firm is submitting their qualifications package for more than one category, a separate qualification package is not required for each category, however the qualification package must include the Categories Form (p. 58) that indicates the categories or categories for which you are submitting your qualifications package and all documentation pertinent to the category such as experience and personnel (See Qualifications Package Contents). Lastly, pre-qualification is not a guarantee of work. Firms Currently In the Design and Engineering Pool CurrentmembersoftheCPD’s design and engineering pool must submit their qualification package in response to this RFQ in order to be considered for possible inclusion in this new pool. There is no automatic qualification, special consideration, or expedited review for firms in the current design and engineering pools. Subcontracting You cannot pre-qualify your firm in a category by subcontracting the entirety of the work of that category to another firm. For pre-qualification in a category, your firm must itself perform a minimum of 25% of the work of the category