American Academy of Innovation- APEX Center Building-Construction Manager/General Contractor

American Academy of Innovation (AAI) is a public charter school located at 5410 W. South Jordan Parkway, South Jordan, UT, 84009. AAI plans to add a new building to its campus for the purpose of providing Adult Professional Education Experience (APEX) programs. AAI is requesting proposals from interested parties (“Respondents”) for Construction Manager/General Contractor (CM/GC) services.

AAI’s anticipated budget, including preconstruction and construction phases, is approximately **$1.9 million** with building commissioning in August 2027.

Place Collaborative has been selected as the architecture firm for this project.

The Scope of Work of the RFP is the construction of a building expansion that approximately 5000 square feet, including three (3) to four (4) learning areas, 2 offices, and other typical facilities (e.g., restrooms, electrical, network/ communications, and riser rooms). The learning areas are for the following programs: engineer and manufacturing, hospitality/culinary, and animal science.

The CM/GC will initially provide preconstruction services and, if authorized by AAI, subsequently serve as general contractor for construction. The CM/GC is expected to function as an active Project team member and contribute construction expertise throughout design.

The CM/GC will provide comprehensive preconstruction services throughout design. Services are expected to include, at minimum:

• Participation in Project and design meetings;
• Cost estimating and estimate reconciliation;
• Continuous design-to-budget management;
• Constructability review;
• Value and life-cycle analysis;
• Project scheduling;
• Project phasing recommendations;
• Phasing and site-logistics planning;
• Existing-condition review;
• Market and subcontractor analysis;
• Long-lead and procurement planning;
• Development of bid-package strategies;
• Subcontractor outreach and market testing;
• Risk identification and mitigation;
• Recommendation, planning and coordination of destructive investigation;
• GMP development; and
• Evaluation of alternative approaches to delivery of particular scopes.

If construction is authorized, the CM/GC will provide construction-phase services required by the Contract and associated Exhibits, including, as applicable:

• Project management and field supervision;
• Safety and site security;
• Scheduling and cost control;
• Subcontractor coordination;
• Quality control;
• Procurement;
• Submittal and RFI management;
• USBE/DFCM school construction reporting
• Change management;
• Pay applications and reporting;
• Coordination of testing, inspection, and commissioning;
• Punch-list completion;
• Record documentation;
• Owner training;
• Warranty administration; and
• Closeout.

**Submission:** On or before the date the proposals are due, the proposals are to be sent to aaiapex@aaiutah.org. It is recommended to follow-up a submission with a confirmation email to the same email address to ensure the proposal was received.

Respondents must submit the following documents:

• Letter of intent/introduction, including Respondent’s name, contact person, address, telephone number, and other pertinent information signed by person(s) authorized to bind the company to their RFP response.
• Respondent Profile
• Technical Proposal
• Cost Proposal

Because the Cost Proposal, Technical Proposal and Respondent Profile will be evaluated separately, they will need to be submitted as separate documents.

Each RFP Response will be evaluated by the sum of the following criteria based on the weighting of each of the following:

• Company performance record (15%)
• Proposed project team (15%)
• Ability to meet schedule and complete efforts to start 2027-28 school year (20%)
• Cost proposal (20%)
• Completeness and quality of RFP Response (10%)
• Innovation (10%)
• Interview evaluation (10%)

A mandatory Pre-Proposal Meeting will be held at AAI. Any deadlines for questions, or submissions are due at 4:00 pm on the scheduled date.