There is no direct fiscal impact from the actions at this time. The selection of firms and contracts will be brought to the Board for approval and award at future meetings. It is anticipated that all contracts will be paid through the financing mechanism selected for each project which will be detailed as each contract award is presented to the Board.

Typically, public projects are competitively awarded to the lowest bidder through a design-bid-build solicitation and award process. In 2015, the state legislature adopted legislation allowing local agencies to use a design-build project procurement method. Under design-build project procurement methodology local agencies rank bidders according to best value criteria specified in a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) and Request for Proposals (RFP). The public contract code authorizing design-build project procurement requires the local agency’s governing board to approve use of the design- build method.  
  
Contra Costa County has successfully used Design-Build procurement on several projects, most recently the new Administration Building and the new Emergency Operations Center. The two main advantages of Design-Build are allowing for a faster project completion and improved design through the ability to more easily modify final design during the construction process.  
  
Staff will solicit responses to RFQs for the two projects and create short lists of qualified design build entities. Staff will then solicit responses to RFPs from the short listed design-build entities and rank those respondents according to criteria in the RFPs. After staff conducts the RFQ and RFP process for the two projects it will return to the board with a recommendation for selection of design-build contractors for the projects.  
  
West County Reentry and Treatment Facility  
The West County Reentry and Treatment Facility is the construction of a 96 bed mental health treatment center, reentry and other treatment areas and replacement general population beds at the existing West County Detention facility.   
  
  
Module M of the existing Martinez Detention facility  
The project to remodel Module M of the existing Martinez Detention facility is the conversion of approximately 25% of the existing M module into 5 mental health treatment rooms with associated medical treatment rooms and nursing station and the remodel of the rest of M module into a facility capable of handling return to competency programs and/or other mental health programming for incarcerated persons.  
  
Staff recommends Board approve the use of Design-Build methodology for the above projects and authorize staff to begin the process by issuing Requests for Qualifications to begin to identify and qualify interested teams for each project.  

Not approving these actions could lead to increases in the cost of the projects through continued escalation of construction costs during the longer design and bidding phases under the more traditional procurement method.