Upstate Hospital Fire Suppression CL

STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK

**Architectural & Engineering Solicitation **

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Project Number and Title: 1651 – Upstate University Hospital Fire Suppression Campus Let

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SUNY Upstate Medical University is seeking qualifications for the full design services (programming, design, construction documents, bidding, and construction administration), of an architect / engineering team for providing the Upstate University Hospital throughout with automatic sprinkler systems. The construction will be phased to keep areas up and running as we go.

There will be no formal site visit nor will tours of the facility be given prior to the receipt of responses to the RFQ.

Minimum 5 years of experience in design of Hospital facilities of academic medical research laboratories for both the architectural firm and its team members is required.

Request for Qualifications (RFQ) are attached below and may be download by all firms interested in responding to this advertisement.

Responses to the RFQ should describe the consultant's experience and qualifications to undertake this work as described therein. The successful firm will be required to provide evidence demonstrating that the firm and any of the firms' engineering, land surveying, architectural or landscape architectural sub-consultants, are legally authorized by the NYS Education Department to do business in NY State.* * All firms must also provide proof of New York State Worker's Compensation Insurance and Disability Insurance coverage.* *

Qualifications must be submitted as two (2) complete qualification packages, one (1) of which must have original signatures, the other one (1) which must be submitted separately on a flash drive and may be delivered to the location below. Any submission not including two (2) complete qualification packages one (1) hard copies and one (1) separate flash drives will be rejected. Qualifications must be received by 2:00 PM on  FORMTEXT Tuesday
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, July 28th, 2026.

*Contact - mailing & delivery address: *

**Mrs. Jeanie Pender **

**Contracts & Campus Purchasing **

**SUNY-Upstate Medical University **

650 South Salina Street, Room 2050

**Syracuse, New York 13202 **

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All questions to be by fax or email (email is preferred) to each: Jeanie Pender (penderj@upstate.edu) and Salahudeen Abdel-Razzaq (AbdelraS@Upstate.edu). The RFQ is due 2:00 PM – Tuesday July 28, 2026. The date and time for the last questions to be considered is 4:00 PM –Friday July 17, 2026. All questions will be answered by 5:00 PM - Monday July 20, 2026. These will be issued as an Addendum.

Effective 1/1/06, in accordance with State Finance Law Section §139 j&k, AKA the Lobbying Law, all questions pertaining to this procurement shall be made formally to the following Designated Staff: Mrs. Jeanie Pender, Contracts Administrator, Phone: 315-464-8706, email penderj@upstate.edu. Contact made to other staff regarding this procurement may disqualify the firm and affect future procurements with government entities in the State of New York. Please refer to the OGS’ (www.ogs.state.ny.us/aboutogs/regulations/defaultAdvisoryCouncil.html) for more information on this law.

NYS Executive Law Article 15-A and University policy require campuses, and the consultants with whom they do business, to make a good faith effort to procure materials, supplies, equipment and services (including printing) from NYS certified minority- or women-owned businesses (M/WBEs) and meet University established goals for M/WBE participation in contracts. State University of New York goals are: 16% MBE participation and 14% WBE participation of the total contract value and 6% Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Business participation goal.

State University of New York also has a goal for the Work Force participation: EEO 10% WBE and EEO 10% MBE of total work force on the project. The selected consultant will be required to comply with M/WBE requirements.

The State University of New York Upstate Medical University reserves the right to reject any or all Qualification packages.

The actual schedule for this project will be 5 years the anticipated construction of 5 years for the total consultant services of 10 years. This includes approximately 60 days for bidding and contracting.

Business enterprises awarded an identical or substantially similar procurement contract within the past five years:

Dwyer Architectural

QPK

Stantec

Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Business (SDVOB)

SDVOB Goal: 6.00%

Minority / Women Business Enterprise contracting goals (MWBE)

MBE Goal: 16.00%

WBE Goal: 13.00%

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