Funding for the new Oak Point Parks Maintenance Facility was approved by voters as part of the 2021 Bond Referendum. This project includes a 15,520 square foot maintenance facility (6,450 offices, 9,070 shop), on a 29-acre site. Site improvements include 115,000 square feet of paving for equipment storage, fleet storage, staff parking, visitor parking, bulk material storage bins, chemical storage containment structure, fencing and landscaping. This project also contains park trailhead improvements of a restroom building, bicycle service station and pedestrian parking. Lastly this project includes all of the utilities, technologies and equipment to deliver a complete operating facility. Construction Manager at Risk (CMAR) was selected as the delivery method for this project.
On July 5, 2023, through a two-step Request for Qualifications process (RFQ 2023-0173-B), the City received qualifications from ten firms for the project. The evaluation team consisted of staff from several stakeholder departments.
The evaluation team requested the two top-scoring firms to submit proposals for pre-construction services including their fees for managing the construction of the project. The firms were then asked to present their project solution to city staff, during which they provided their pre-construction and construction approaches for the project along with their experience with similar projects.
Based on their proposed project team, fee amount, project approach and overall interview, city staff chose Lee Lewis Construction, Inc., as Construction Manager at Risk (CMAR) for the project. On November 15, 2023, Lee Lewis Construction and the City entered into a pre-construction services agreement.
During the development of the design, Lee Lewis provided extensive feedback regarding the constructability and phasing possibilities of the project and prepared construction cost estimates for the iterations. Through this process, Lee Lewis has offered value management construction options to keep the project within budget. They have worked with city staff and the consultant/architect (PGAL, Inc.) to develop a guaranteed maximum price (GMP) in the amount of $12,986,776 for the management and construction of the new Oak Point Parks Maintenance Facility project. Engineering-Facilities staff and the design consultant recommend approval of the GMP for this project.
If this agenda item is not approved, the commitment of the work promised in the 2021 Bond Referendum will go uncompleted, and the current challenges of the east side of Plano to Parks Maintenance will only deepen.