Library Architect RFP and “Bible” (part 2)

Here is the Request for Proposals and the “Bible” of related documents that served as background for the architect selection process for the new library at Five Points. These were received on a CD as part of the library architect selection documents in the very organized open records response from the South Georgia Regional Library; see the previous post for related agendas and minutes.

Included in the RFP (which was issued by the County, not by the Library Board), is a list of fourteen numbered submittal instructions that looks like it might have been the basis for the list of 90 items on the Library Scoring Worksheet.

The RFP also includes this interesting section:

RESERVATIONS

Lowndes County Board of Commissioners reserves the following rights:

Rejection of any and all submittals
Negotiate changes in the Scope of Work
Negotiate services to be provided
Negotiate fee proposal
Waive any and all technicalities

That last line basically seems like it could be interpreted to mean they could select whatever appealed to them no matter what the fit (or not) with what was asked for in the RFP.

The “Bible” includes a cover sheet that says:

LOWNDES COUNTY LIBRARY

BUILDING PROGRAM
FOR THE SOUTH GEORGIA
REGIONAL LIBRARY SYSTEM

APRIL 30, 2012

Prepared by:
Kathryn Ames
Greg Heid

It also includes documents entitled Summary and Intro, Community Analysis, Institutional Analysis, Design Requirements, an Appendix on shelving, and some bubble diagrams.

All these materials are available on the LAKE website where more will be added later.

Next: the submissions from the four final architects.

-jsq