Josiah Quincy Upper School Swing Space Project

Project No. 6993-A 

Contact Information

PFD Bid Counter

Bid.info@boston.gov

(617)-635-4809

Pursuant to M.G.L. c. 149A, §8, the City of Boston, acting by its Public Facilities Department, located at 26 Court Street, 10th floor, Boston, MA 02108, hereinafter referred to as Awarding Authority, hereby requests statements of qualifications (SOQ) from trade contractors for the Josiah Quincy Upper School Swing Space Project; Project No. 6993A

Notice: The specifications for this Project may include sub-subcontractor work in the trades of Plumbing, HVAC and Electrical and the requirement for the same to be listed on the form for bid by those Trade Contractors who are prequalified and invited to submit a bid on the Project.

Project description: 

In order to enable the construction of the new Josiah Quincy Upper School, the 6th and 7th grades currently located in the JQUS 900 Washington Street building need to move into Swing Space at the 152 Arlington Street JQUS building. This work must start at the conclusion of the 2020-2021 school year and be completed by the start of the 2021-2022 school year. The scope of work in the 152 Arlington Street building includes bringing underutilized spaces back online, addition of a new HP Accessible Toilet, Science classroom refurbishment, conversion of the Student Lounge into Classrooms & expansion of the Cafeteria. 

This request for qualifications (RFQ) process is being utilized to pre-qualify trade contractors. All trade contractors who achieve a score of 70 points or greater and meet the listed mandatory requirements will be prequalified and, thereafter, invited to submit a bid on the proposed building project pursuant to a Request for Bids (RFB) for trade contracting services.

RFQ packets may be obtained on or about February 22, 2021 and are only available electronically and by requesting access for such through bid.info@boston.gov between the operational hours of 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. 

The SOQ in response to this RFQ shall be signed under pains and penalties of perjury. The SOQ must be received on or before March 17, 2021 at 2:00 P.M.(EST) at the PFD Bid Counter, 26 Court Street, 10th Floor, Boston, MA 02108. All responses submitted after this time will not be accepted. The anticipated date for completion of the prequalification evaluation process is on or about March 29, 2021. 

Patrick I. Brophy, Chief of Operations