City of Prince Rupert to seek out condition assessments for range of municipal buildings

The Prince Rupert Library is one of ten City of Prince Rupert
buildings to be included in an RFP for Condition assessments

To kick off 2022, the City of Prince Rupert is looking to have an assessment done on the state of their physical assets, with Tom Jawed, the City's Facilities and Maintenance Manager looking to get the 411 on the status of a number buildings around the community.

In a Request for Proposals, Mr. Jawed outlines the scope of the assessment, with the city seeking proposals from qualified proponents towards condition assessments, engineering investigations, and budget estimates for phased rectification of multiple city owned building envelopes & roof deficiencies. 

Presently, there are varying degrees of deficiencies pertaining to buildings such as water ingress, roof leaks, air leaks and thermal leaks.  

Towards the work, individual assessments will be required for each of the following structures set for the review by the City.

What the city is looking for from proponents includes:

Identification of deficiencies in the order of: -

Immediate Repairs due to existing or potential unsafe conditions, building code or fire code violations, or conditions that if left uncorrected could result in critical failure or significant costs, and -

Mid-to-Long-Term Repairs based on the expected useful life; and · Scopes of work with budget estimates or opinion of costs for phased repairs and replacements.

Would be proponents are also provided with a detailed list of the expectations of the City towards the assessment work, that as part of the Project overview.

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The Deadline for Response to the RFP is February 22nd, with a contract award of March 9th.

The City anticipates that the work should be completed by June 10th.

The Library making the list of ten sites to be evaluated will be welcome news for the staff and patrons of the Sixth Avenue West facility. 

In recent weeks Prince Rupert's House of reading has suffered a range of issues that have impacted on the building and ability to remain open to the public.

The full overview of the project can be explored from the BC Bid website.

More notes on previous calls for Bids and Requests for Proposals cane reviewed from our archive page.

You can explore more items of interest on the municipal scene in Prince Rupert from our archive here.