Community Hospital Tower of Power and UPS backup

Project Number and Title: 1548-151341 Community Hospital Tower of Power and UPS backup SUNY Upstate Medical University is seeking qualifications for the full design services (programming, design, construction documents, bidding, and construction administration), of an architect / engineering team to design for a hardened power system for all IMT infrastructure across Community Hospital and the Physician’s Office Building -North. The project is to upgrade the quality of power by providing adequate conditioned power and UPS back up for all rooms when transitioning from the loss of street power to red power. This project will provide reliable and improved connectivity for patient IMT services and reduce maintenance costs. Most critically it will reduce or eliminate faults and power outages to necessary equipment and infrastructure. There will be no formal site visit nor will tours of the facility be given prior to the receipt of responses to the RFQ. Minimum 5 years’ experience in design of the system as described above. Request for Qualifications (RFQ) are attached below and may be downloaded by all firms interested in responding to this advertisement. Responses to the RFQ should describe the consultant's experience and qualifications to undertake this work as described therein. The successful firm will be required to provide evidence demonstrating that the firm and any of the firms' engineering, land surveying, architectural or landscape architectural sub-consultants, are legally authorized by the NYS Education Department to do business in NY State. All firms must also provide proof of New York State Worker's Compensation Insurance and Disability Insurance coverage. Qualifications must be submitted as two (2) complete qualification packages, one (1) of which must have original signatures, the other one (1) can be on separate flash drives and may be delivered to the location below. Any submission not including two (2) complete qualification packages (one (1) hard copy and one (1) separate flash drives will be rejected. Qualifications must be received by 2:00 PM on July 14, 2026. Contact - mailing & delivery address: Mrs. Jeanie Pender Contracts & Campus Purchasing SUNY-Upstate Medical University 650 South Salina Street, Room 2050 Syracuse, New York 13202 All questions to be by fax or email (email is preferred) to each: Jeanie Pender ([email protected]) and Jeanne Boodley-Buchanan ([email protected]). The RFQ is due 2:00 PM – Tuesday, July 14, 2026. The date and time for the last questions to be considered is 5:00 PM –Tuesday July 9, 2026, All questions will be answered by 5:00 PM – Wednesday, July 10,2026. These will be issued as an Addendum. Effective 1/1/06, in accordance with State Finance Law Section §139 j&k, AKA the Lobbying Law, all questions pertaining to this procurement shall be made formally to the following Designated Staff Mrs. Jeanie Pender, Contracts Administrator, Phone: 315-464-8706, email [email protected]. Contact made to other staff regarding this procurement may disqualify the firm and affect future procurements with government entities in the State of New York. Please refer to the OGS’ (www.ogs.state.ny.us/aboutogs/regulations/defaultAdvisoryCouncil.html) for more information on this law. NYS Executive Law Article 15-A and University policy require campuses, and the consultants with whom they do business, to make a good faith effort to procure materials, supplies, equipment and services (including printing) from NYS certified minority- or women-owned businesses (M/WBEs) and meet University established goals for M/WBE participation in contracts. State University of New York goals are 15% MBE participation and 15% WBE participation of the total contract value and 6% Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Business participation goal. State University of New York also has a goal for the Work Force participation: EEO 10% WBE and EEO 10% MBE of total work force on the project. The selected consultant will be required to comply with M/WBE requirements. The State University of New York Upstate Medical University reserves the right to reject any or all Qualification packages. The actual schedule for this project will fall roughly into this schedule: Design Contract Award 1/1/2027 Construction Consultant Award 7/1/2028 Equipment Acqisition7/1/2028 Occupancy Date 7/1/2030 Business enterprises awarded an identical or substantially similar procurement contract within the past five years: Dwyer Architectural Stantec Consulting QPK Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Business (SDVOB) SDVOB Goal: 6.00% Minority / Women Business Enterprise contracting goals (MWBE) MBE Goal: 15.00% WBE Goal: 15.00%