Architectural Services Request for Proposal
POTTSTOWN, PA – On January 22, the RFP for Architectural Services was released to the public by the Pottstown School District. The RFP, dated January 20 (the Wednesday before the Thursday General Board meeting when the voting to proceed occurred), is a six page document and is available on the Pottstown School District website.
As part of the wonderful service Save Pottstown!! provides (free of charge!) to the taxpayers of Pottstown, we have included the RFP documents here for your viewing and reading pleasure:
EX1-#872526-v2-Pottstown_School_District_RFP_for_Architectural_Services_-_Window_Replacement_Project
The RFP was released Friday, January 22 with a due date of 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 2. Yes – that’s right folks – seven business days (six if you don’t include the day the proposal is due).
Now, we here at Save Pottstown!! don’t know much about proposals or how a proposal gets put together, but if we had received this RFP and had to adhere to the stringent requirements (organization charts, project listings for the past five years, firm’s management approach, five step firm methodology process, etc.) within a seven day turnaround, we would think that most companies would have a rough time assembling such a collection of information in such a short window of time (sorry…we just couldn’t resist the pun).
Unless of course, the company considering to bid had advance notice of the forthcoming RFP. And we all know that could never happen in Pottstown.
Now, isn’t it funny how complete this RFP is? We here at Save Pottstown!! were wondering who may have helped assemble this RFP. Hmmm. Things that make you go hmmm.
We guess we’ll just have to wait until next Tuesday to see how many firms submit proposals. Who knows…maybe someone already has proposals in hand and is reviewing them right now!
Let’s just hope that the winning firm is a local one….and not from Pittsburgh.
I have been involved in rfp’s in a former employment and 6 days is not sufficient time to prepare this document. this sounds as though the bid is rigged and tommie ahs someone already lined up. a rfp to pick up the trash probably got more time. Also aren’t you supposed to place a public notice to the effect that you are seeking bids on a project such as this. just wondering???????? as I said before maybe contact the u s attorney and the f.b.i. to look into this situation.bid rigging is a criminal offense.
IF I was a managing partner, owner or anyone who had to put this volume of data together in such a short time I would likely pass on the project. Seeing as how assembling this amount of information doesn’t guarantee work and the fact that this might not be a standard for such propsals concerns me.
I believe Mr. Preve is correct (don’t quote me tho’) that there has to be public notice and I’m not certain the internet counts…I think newspaper advertisements are the accepted method of public notification.
I will be interested to see where the proposals come from, too!
I’m sure everyone gets the timeline…due by 2/2 4pm…no NSC mtg (unless emergency session after just 12 hrs to review)…’committee’ makes reccomendation at COW mtg on 2/4 (only 48+ hrs after proposal deadline)…SB makes decision on 2/4 “estimate” (as stated on page 1 of proposal) & phase I over ‘Master Plan’ virtually complete.
Now I’m willing to give a ‘little’ (VERY little) benefit of the doubt about such companies having some of this info ‘ready to go’ and easily accessible as they’d be, perhaps, experienced with this process BUT…
Legal avenues may be all we have…investigation/injunction?!?!?