A. The State of Minnesota, Department of Administration, on behalf of the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (“State”), seeks proposals to enter into a lease for space in an existing or newly constructed building (“Building”) that will best serve the State’s interest. B. The workplace vision and project goals are as follows: 1. Provide visually and acoustically private spaces that allow for focus and unobtrusive collaboration. Locate confidential areas in secured spaces. Provide safety and security. Visual and acoustical privacy is highly desired, especially for staff who often work with confidential documents or information. Smaller focus rooms for heads down work are desired and also serve as spaces for the virtual calls prevalent with hybrid collaboration. Employees, partners and visitors will work in a safe, secure and professional environment. The workplace design will have a balance of public and private spaces, as well as integrated planning, technology and protocols, to ensure the safety of people and security of data and files. 2. Incorporate a range of settings and spaces that provides flexibility to support evolving needs. DCYF employees currently utilize a hybrid work model. Hybrid styles consist of teleworking, working in person on designated days, and commuting into the office for pre-scheduled division meetings or for collaboration purposes. As such, individual divisions require access to collaboration or conference spaces of a variety of sizes and technologies. 3. Create environments that are easily modified to support individual and team’s varied requirements. DCYF employees have a hybrid schedule of telework and in-person work. Individuals that work in the office on a hybrid basis will need the ability to reserve a workstation located by other colleagues working in the office, despite which division they work in. Divisions will also need to maintain access to reservable workstations allocated solely to their division. This flexibility should trickle into the collaboration areas, as well, through the application of various room sizes, flexible furnishings and intuitive locations within the space. 4. Provide a space that features daylight. Access to natural light throughout the office space is critical to employee wellbeing.
