📋 Tender Overview
Description : This funding will be used to provide feasibility and concept level consulting service required to complete the following: Building and feasibility assessments required to develop the 2024 Capital Plan. Staff receive on average approximately 150 projects from User Groups on an annual basis by May of each year that require feasibility level review and costing in time for the budget process. Examples for the 2023 program include feasibility and costing for Britannia Shipyards – Britannia Shipyard Building Envelope and Structural Renewals, City Hall and Annex Renewals, Hugh Boyd Community Facility and Fieldhouse concept design as well as South Arm and Steveston Outdoor Pool Renewals. To respond to requests for feasibility and concept level design and costing services added to the 2024 work plan. Over the past three years, there were approximately 37 such requests, examples of which include the Richmond Curling Club assessment and maintenance plan; Caring Place Facility Condition Assessment and Capital Plan; Olympic Oval Exterior improvements, locker room renovations and 25 year capital plan generation, as well as multiple house demolitions requested from Real Estate. The same level of requests are anticipated for 2024. To respond to market escalation and volatile pricing by including design elements into our planning cycle. Future capital submissions will be developed through to schematic level design and costing, then sent for escalation just prior to final reviews and approvals. This process is anticipated to decrease the award period needed on projects once they’ve been approved and reduces escalation impacts on project budgets. Without this funding, building improvement and infrastructure replacement projects have to be deferred and funding reallocated to allow the feasibility and concept level design work to proceed. For example, the 2022 Advanced Design submission was not approved and resulted in the deferment of approximately $750,000 of facility infrastructure and building improvement projects.
