Project Agreement

The School District and the Ministry of Education entered into a Project Agreement for the Chilliwack Secondary School Project on December 17, 2008.

The Project Agreement provides the necessary funding to enable the School District to construct a new 1200 student capacity secondary school as a replacement for Chilliwack Secondary School. Replacement with a new state–of-the-art school was more cost effective than renovating and seismically upgrading the existing school.

The School District and the Ministry of Education have subsequently agreed to amend the Project Agreement to include additional space to accommodate programs approved under the Neighbourhood Learning Centre initiative.

Overview of Procurement Stages

The School District is utilizing a two stage procurement process to identify a Preferred Proponent to enter into a Design-Build Agreement (“DB Agreement”) for the Project.

Request for Qualifications

The first phase of the procurement process is the RFQ phase which is intended to shortlist Respondents, based on pre-established evaluation criteria, which demonstrate through their Responses that they have the relevant expertise and capacity to undertake the design and construction of the Project. Those shortlisted Respondents may proceed to the RFP phase of the procurement process.

The Request For Qualifications closed at 2:00 p.m. on April 8th, 2010.

Click here to read the April 12, 2010 RFQ closing project update , which identifies the Respondent list.

Click here for the May 11, 2010 Project Update that identifies the three shortlisted teams selected to submit detailed Proposals.

Review of Design-Build Agreement

The School District will provide the draft form of DB Agreement to the shortlisted Respondents for review for a seven calendar day period upon submission of a confidentiality agreement. Upon completion of the review and provision of any comments to the School District, the shortlisted Respondents will be entitled to receive the RFP upon submission of the Security Deposit set out in the RFP. The RFP will include the final form of DB Agreement.

Request for Proposals

The RFP phase is the second phase of the procurement process open to the Proponents shortlisted during this RFQ phase. The School District expects to issue the RFP to the shortlisted Respondents in May, 2010. Proponents are expected, in accordance with the RFP, to commit to submit binding Proposals to design and build the Project. Following an evaluation of these Proposals, the School District expects to select a Preferred Proponent and to enter into the DB Agreement with that Preferred Proponent.