(a) The county shall develop, with the assistance of a licensed design professional or public art designer, a request for proposal, which shall include scope and performance criteria. The scope and performance criteria must be in sufficient detail and contain adequate information to reasonably apprise the qualified design-build entities of the county’s overall programmatic needs and goals, including criteria and preliminary design plans, general budget parameters, schedule, and delivery requirements.
     (b) Each request for proposal shall also include a description of the level of design to be provided in the proposals. This description must include the scope and type of renderings, drawings, and specifications that, at a minimum, will be required by the county to be produced by the design-build entities.

Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 55 ILCS 5/5-45020

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Design professional: means an individual, sole proprietorship, firm, partnership, joint venture, corporation, professional corporation, or other entity that offers services under the Illinois Architecture Practice Act of 1989, the Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989, the Structural Engineering Practice Act of 1989, or the Illinois Professional Land Surveyor Act of 1989. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 55 ILCS 5/5-45010
  • Design-build: means a delivery system that provides responsibility within a single contract for the furnishing of architecture, engineering, land surveying, and related services as required and the labor, materials, equipment, and other construction services for the project. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 55 ILCS 5/5-45010
  • Design-build contract: means a contract for a public project under this Division between a county and a design-build entity to furnish: architecture, engineering, land surveying, public art or interpretive exhibits, and related services, as required; and the labor, materials, equipment, and other construction services for the project. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 55 ILCS 5/5-45010
  • Design-build entity: means an individual, sole proprietorship, firm, partnership, joint venture, corporation, professional corporation, or other entity that proposes to design and construct any public project under this Division. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 55 ILCS 5/5-45010
  • Proposal: means the offer to enter into a design-build contract as submitted by a design-build entity in accordance with this Division. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 55 ILCS 5/5-45010
  • Public art designer: means an individual, sole proprietorship, firm, partnership, joint venture, corporation, professional corporation, or other entity that has demonstrated experience with the design and fabrication of public art including any media that has been planned and executed with the intention of being staged in the physical public domain outside and accessible to all or any art which is exhibited in a public space including publicly accessible buildings, or interpretive exhibits including communication media that is designed to engage, excite, inform, relate, or reveal the intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of a topic or story being presented. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 55 ILCS 5/5-45010
  • Request for proposal: means the document used by the county to solicit proposals for a design-build contract. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 55 ILCS 5/5-45010
  • Scope and performance criteria: means the requirements for the public project, including, but not limited to, the intended usage, capacity, size, scope, quality and performance standards, life-cycle costs, and other programmatic criteria that are expressed in performance-oriented and quantifiable specifications and drawings that can be reasonably inferred and are suited to allow a design-build entity to develop a proposal. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 55 ILCS 5/5-45010

     (c) The scope and performance criteria shall be prepared by a design professional or public art designer who is an employee of the county, or the county may contract with an independent design professional or public art designer selected under the Local Government Professional Services Selection Act to provide these services.
     (d) The design professional or public art designer that prepares the scope and performance criteria is prohibited from participating in any design-build entity proposal for the project.
     (e) The design-build contract may be conditioned upon subsequent refinements in scope and price and may allow the county to make modifications in the project scope without invalidating the design-build contract.