Good morning. Please make sure that your cell phones and computers are on mute. I am Carolyn Messersmith, Purchasing Manager and the Meeting Facilitator. I would like to call to order this initial Evaluation Committee meeting for Request for Proposals PNC-213-1406P1 Forensic Science Center Managing General Contractor for the Construction Management Division. The time is 10.03 a.m. on July 28, 2026. This meeting is being held through Microsoft Teams. Representatives from the county are physically here in Room 430 of the Governmental Center Building located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, or virtually through Teams. Attendees, please mute the microphones on your devices to limit background noise. This is a public meeting and is being recorded by Broward County. The video recording will act as the official recording of this meeting. The recording will be made available on the Purchasing Division website under the RLI RFP repository. Information reviewed by the Evaluation Committee as part of the evaluation process will also be posted on the repository. This meeting has been publicly noticed. The purpose of the meeting is to determine the responsiveness and responsibility of the proposing vendors. Only those vendors that have been determined by the Evaluation Committee today to be both responsive and responsible to the solicitation requirements are shortlisted and may proceed to the final Evaluation Committee meeting for presentations and ranking. At the time of the solicitation deadline, 2 p.m. on April 23, 2026, seven proposals were received. Meeting attendance is recorded in the following ways. The Purchasing Division records attendance of the county staff physically here in Room 430. All virtual attendees, including county staff, please click on the link or scan the QR code that is currently listed in the Teams chat section to complete the sign-in sheet. For attendees that cannot access the link or QR code in the Teams chat, email the Senior Purchasing Agent Melissa Cuevas at mecuevas at broward.org with the subject EC meeting attendance and indicate your name, your title, and the company you represent in the email body. The following are the county's project staff here in attendance. Melissa Cuevas, Senior Purchasing Agent, Bryce Bounds, Project Manager, Construction Management Division, Javier Navas, and Benjamin Crago, County Attorney's Office, Olga Shayner, Office of Economic and Small Business Development, Colleen Ponnell, Risk Management Division, and Evan Zachariah, Finance and Administrative Services Department. We have a quorum present with the following evaluation committee members. Committee members, please say present after your name is called. Abashik Dainal, Assistant Director, Transportation, Capital Delivery and Infrastructure Maintenance, Transportation Department. Present. Thank you. Andrew Baker, Director Planning, Development and Facilities Management, Broward Sheriff's Office. Present. Thank you. Lori Cater, Capital Program Administrator, Facilities Management Division, Public Works and Environmental Services Department. Present. Thank you. Kyle Alford, Assistant Director, Seaport Engineering and Construction Division, Port Everglades Department. Present. Thank you. Michael J. Rittis, Capital Program Administrator, Construction Management Division, Public Works and Environmental Services Department. Present. Thank you. It is the evaluation committee's responsibility to review the vendor's submittals to ensure solicitation requirements are met and to evaluate the submittals and make a recommendation to award a contract. Each evaluation committee member was appointed by the county administrator to serve on this committee based on their experience. The evaluation committee members are responsible for filing the county's established committee procedures to select vendors which provide the services that are in the best interest of the county. At the discretion of the board, the evaluation committee members may be requested to substantiate their recommendation and discuss their submittal reviews. In accordance with Broward County Procurement Code, each evaluation committee member must affirm that they are free of conflicts of interest as provided in Part 3, Chapter 112, Florida Statutes, and the Broward County Code, the Broward County Employee Code of Ethics. All evaluation committee members and the project manager assigned submitted the required Broward County Disclosure Forms and responded that they can be fair and impartial to all vendors. The cone of silence has been in effect since the solicitation's advertisement. Vendors are prohibited from discussing this solicitation with the commissioner's office, county staff, or a member of the evaluation committee. The cone of silence terminates when the awarding authority takes action which ends the solicitation. During the cone of silence, inquiries regarding this solicitation should be directed to the project manager or the director of purchasing and or his designee. Also, vendors may communicate with designated representatives from the Office of Economic and Small Business Development at any time regarding the solicitation's small business enterprise or county business enterprise participation. The summary of vendor's rights regarding Broward County's competitive solicitation was issued in the solicitation. At this time, the purchasing agent will report the findings on the responsiveness and responsibility and identify if any exceptions were taken to the county's terms and conditions. Thank you. Proposals were received from the following vendors. Expression for you, Moss & Associates, MB2A Golf Joint Venture, OHLA Building, Suffol Construction Company, The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company, and Turner Construction Company. The director of purchasing waived the following technicalities or irregularities in accordance with the procurement code. OHLA Building omitted an original submittal bond at time of solicitation opening. However, the vendor uploaded a copy of their submittal bond in BPRO, our electronic bidding system, by the solicitation due date and time. On June 11, 2026, at the request of the purchasing division, OHLA Building provided the original submittal bond. Refer to the Waiver of Technicalities or Irregularities Memorandum for additional details. The solicitation had three responsiveness requirements involving compliance. Bond Requirement, Criminal History Screening Practices Certification, and Lovies Registration Certification Form. Six of the seven vendors were found responsive to all the responsiveness requirements by the purchasing division. Expression for you is non-responsive to the Bonding, Criminal History Screening Practices Certification, and Lovies Registration Certification Responsiveness requirements. Refer to the Responsiveness and Responsibility Matrix for additional information. The solicitation had six areas of responsibility requirements. Affiliated Entities of the Principles, Financial Information or Financial Ability, Insurance Requirements, License Requirements, Litigation History, and Office of Economic and Small Business Development Program requirements. Six of the seven vendors provided the required documentation for Evaluations Committee review for responsibility. The following compliance concerns were identified. Expression for you did not provide affiliated entities of the Principles, Financial Information, Insurance Requirements, License Requirements, Litigation History, and Office of Economic and Small Business Development Program requirements for Evaluations Committee review for responsibility. Refer to the Director of Purchasing Memorandum for additional information. The solicitation required vendors to state whether they accept Broward County Standard Terms and Conditions, or if they do not accept them, to identify the agreement provisions and vendors' proposed changes. The following vendors took exceptions to the County Standard Terms and Conditions. The following vendors waived all non-negotiable exceptions. The County provided vendors an opportunity to waive their exceptions prior to the initial Evaluation Committee meeting. The following vendors waived all non-negotiable exceptions. Moss & Associates, MV2A Golf Joint Vendor, and the Whiting-Turner Contracting Company. The following vendor was given the opportunity to waive their exceptions. The vendor waived four of the exceptions taken, but elected to maintain the remainder of their exceptions to the County Standard Terms and Conditions. Old HLA Building. The following vendors were given the opportunity to waive their exceptions, but elected to maintain their exceptions to the County Standard Terms and Conditions. Suffolk Construction Company and Turner Construction Company. The specific exceptions taken by these vendors are outlined in an exception matrix that has been distributed to the Evaluation Committee members for their review. The exceptions taken by these vendors are identified in each submittal and will be addressed prior to presentations if vendor advances at the final Evaluation Committee meeting. This concludes Purchasing Remarks as is presented for the consideration of the Evaluation Committee. Thank you. Thank you. The next order of business is to determine vendor responsiveness as defined in the Procurement Code Section 21.40A. Is there any discussion from the Evaluation Committee regarding the determination of responsiveness? Hearing none, may I have a motion with respect to the responsiveness of the vendor's submittals? If there are non-responsive vendors, two motions must be made. First motion naming the non-responsive vendors. Second motion naming the responsive vendors. I would like to make a motion to find expressions for you as a non-responsive to the solicitation's responsiveness requirements. May I have a second? Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes unanimously. I'd like to make a motion to find expressions for you as… So we're still on responsiveness, so you'll have to determine the vendors that are responsive. So I'd like to make a motion to find the following vendors, responsive, Moss and Associates, NV2A, OHLA, Suffolk, Whiting-Turner, and Turner Construction. May I have a second? Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes unanimously. The next order of business is to determine the responsibility of the vendors as defined in the procurement code section 21.40B. Is there any discussion from the evaluation committee regarding the responsibility of the vendors? Hearing none, may I have a motion with respect to the responsibility of the vendors. I'd like to make a motion to find expressions for you as non-responsible to the solicitation's responsibility requirements. May I have a second? Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes unanimously. I'd like to make a motion to find the Lawson Associates, LLC, NV2A, Gulf JV, OHLA, Building Inc., Suffolk Construction Company, Inc., Whiting-Turner Contracting Company, and Turner Construction Company as responsible vendors. May I have a second? Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Any opposed? Motion passes unanimously. The next order of business is determination that the vendors that were found both responsive and responsible. May I have a motion with respect to the vendors determined to be both responsive and responsible. I would like to make a motion to find the V2A, Gulf, OHLA Building, Suffolk Construction, Whiting-Turner Contractor Company, Turner Construction Company, to find both responsive and responsible. May I have a second? All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes unanimously. The Director of Purchasing recommends shortlisting in accordance with Procurement Code Section 21.42. The Evaluation Committee may, number one, shortlist vendors and then score or rank only the shortlisted vendors, or two, score and or rank all responses. Shortlisting is based on the Evaluation Committee's evaluation of the vendor's entire submittals, including responses to the evaluation criteria. Is there any discussion regarding shortlisting? Yes. Could you speak closer to the microphone? Can you hear me? Yes. I would like to make an observation here, knowing that this is a very important and very complex project for the county, hundreds of millions of dollars, and the vendors shows different expertise. I would recommend to my fellow committee here that if we can shortlist all of them and give us the opportunity to hear from every vendor that's found to be responsible and responsive, and shortlist them all if possible. Is there any further discussion from the Evaluation Committee? No. I had. That's what I would assume that we would look at the full six. So, just for the record, just to go from seven to six vendors, correct? Right. So, your recommendation was to shortlist all the ones that are responsive and responsible. Yeah. That's exactly what I said. Got it. Understood. Okay. So, may I have a motion with regards to shortlisting all the vendors that are both responsive and responsible, and we'll move forward. First motion to shortlist all vendors that were found to be responsible and responsible. I second that. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes unanimously. Okay. The final Evaluation Committee meeting will be held on Monday, August 10, 2026 at 10 AM, and will include vendor presentations. The Evaluation Committee establishes the length of presentation. This time does not include unlimited question and answer period. Is there any discussion regarding presentation length? I would propose that we allow 20 minutes for presentation. So, there's an unlimited Q&A session. Yes. So, then may I have a motion to send the length of presentations? I'd like to make a motion to limit the presentation length to 20 minutes. May I have a second? Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Mr. Rittis did you say? I'm sorry. Did you say aye? Yes. I didn't hear it. Okay. Any opposed? As established, each vendor will have 20 minutes for their presentation, followed by an unlimited Q&A session. All vendors will have up to 5 minutes to set up for their presentation in the team's meeting. At this time, the purchasing agent will use A Random List generator to determine the order of presentations. This can be viewed on the screen. screen the order of vendor presentation is as follow first it doesn't it didn't look yeah first vendor and B2A Gulf JB second burner construction company third subfold construction company or the Whiting Turner construction company fifth Moss and Associates and six OHLA building committee members is there any other business that needs to be discussed today yes I would like to make sure that I have a few items that I'd like the vendors to address in their presentation so we don't have any we don't add any additional information for the vendors to address in their presentation other than what's in their evaluation criteria you can always ask questions of the vendors during the question-and-answer session but we can't ask them to amplify on what they presented in their documentation you can ask them to during the presentation not prior to the presentation correct we would like to thank all the vendors that responded to the solicitation and we appreciate your time and interest in working with Broward County the time is 1024 a.m. this initial evaluation committee meeting is adjourned thank you all