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Institution | UNC - Chapel Hill Academic Affairs | |||||
Institution URL for Additional Information about this Project (Optional) | https://facilities.unc.edu/resources/vendor-opportunities/ | |||||
Project Name | Move Planning Services, Louis Round Wilson Library Infrastructure Upgrades | |||||
Type of Services | Described Below | |||||
Project Manager | Quade T Gallagher | |||||
Phone Number | (984) 484-4113 | |||||
Contact Email | quadeg@unc.edu | |||||
Closing Date | 06/30/2023 | |||||
Project Budget |
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Project Description | One-Two Sentences The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (hereafter
referred to as the University) seeks proposals from
qualified firms to plan an upcoming move of the
University's special collections currently residing in
Wilson Library in support of the upcoming Infrastructure
Upgrade project.
The move planning will consist of both identifying parts of
the special collection that will be temporarily as well as
permanently stored off site. The selected firm, at the
direction of the UNC Facilities PM, will coordinate with the
design team - led by Hanbury Architects - the University,
Wilson Library, and other stakeholders in the development of
this plan and the requirements of moving the special
collections, including doing inventory of the collection,
identifying off site storage, scheduling, identifying routes
from within the stacks to the loading dock, requirements and
parameters of the means and methods of the move, as well as
other variables identified throughout the planning process.
This process will be completed with the selected firm
compiling a set of bid documents that the University will
use to ultimately select the firm who will execute the move
through the UNC Procurement Services office via RFP
submission. This set of bid documents will likely include
narratives, processes and procedures, diagrams, photos, etc.
necessary to effectively communicate the plan and intent of
the move.
Additionally, the move planner will need to account for
additional items and areas in this effort. This includes,
but will not be limited to, general building furniture as
well as the Conservation Lab, and Digital Production Center
- both of which have specialized equipment. It will be the
move planner's responsibility to fully understand and
communicate the requirements of this special equipment when
moving and storing and communicating that clearly and
explicitly in the bid documents.
Wilson Library is a 317,529 GSF building originally
constructed in 1929, with subsequent additions in 1953 and
1977. The stacks occupy 10 floors of 7-foot-tall ceiling
spaces with overhead lighting, ducts, and sprinkler systems.
The University has been working with the North Carolina
Department of Insurance on a coordinated plan to bring the
Wilson Library into compliance with the current edition of
the building code. The approved upgrades are to provide code
compliant egress for the entire building and new mechanical
systems within portions of the original 1929 stacks and the
stacks of the 1953 addition. The schedule of the
Infrastructure Upgrade project has construction targeted to
start in mid-2025 and completed by late 2026. The special
collections will need to be moved out before construction
starts - exact timing will be established during the move
planning effort.
There was an Advanced Planning Report completed in March of
2023 detailing all potential scope of the project and will
be used as the basis of design for the Infrastructure
Upgrade project. Included in that effort was a programming
planning study done that will be referenced for future uses
and visioning of Wilson Library and shall be a factor in
determinations made in this move planning effort. | |||||
Submit Letters of Interest and Current SF-330 to: | (Contact Person, Name of Institution & Address) Electronic submissions only to:
Quade T Gallagher,
UNC-Chapel Hill
Facilities, Planning, & Design
quadeg@unc.edu |
In order to offer architectural or engineering services in response to this solicitation, the proposer must be licensed in the State of North Carolina.