Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Center for Economic Transformation of the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) is seeking a construction manager (“CM�) to lead its staff and/or a consultant team in the provision of construction management and related services for a smart grid project (the “Project�) consisting of: (1) a solar photovoltaic system, battery storage and a building management system (BMS) at the Brooklyn Army Terminal and (2) BMS at two or more other NYCEDC managed properties. The Project, part of a larger ConEd smart grid demonstration project, seeks to optimize the renewable energy resources and storage capabilities of our system to (1) help reduce energy costs at the Project locations and (2) potentially profit from both distributed generation and load reduction. The larger ConEd-led project seeks to demonstrate the possibility of centralized command and control of disparate, City-wide energy resources, including hybrid vehicles, distributed generation, battery storage, and demand response, with a focus on cybersecurity and mass data-management and manipulation, all on a real-time basis. Respondents must be able to provide a full range of pre-construction, construction and post-construction management and other construction-related services as more specifically set forth in the Contract Draft and Scope of Services annexed to the RFP including, without limitation, the following: participation in the review and resolution of design and construction issues at regularly scheduled Project meetings; constructability reviews; cost estimating and value engineering exercises; preparation of staging and phasing plans, Project controls, bid packages, requisitions, change orders and other contract documents and processes. NYCEDC plans to select a consultant on the basis of factors stated in the RFP which include, but are not limited to: the quality of the proposal, experience of key staff identified in the proposal, experience and quality of any subcontractors proposed, demonstrated successful experience in performing services similar to those covered in the scope of work, and the proposed fee.
