Mahoning Valley Community School is renovating and changing the use of an existing office building located at 2026 South Ave., Youngstown, Ohio 44502 and has a budget of $2.1 million Professional design services are under a separate contract. Pre-Proposal Meeting: Prior to submitting a response to the RFP, the short-listed firms will be invited to meet individually with Mahoning Valley Community School. The purpose of the pre-proposal meeting is to permit the short-listed firms an opportunity to ask the Mahoning Valley Community School questions in an individual setting to help the firms prepare their responses to the RFP. The Mahoning Valley Community School will notify each short-listed firm to schedule individual times for the pre-proposal meetings. The selected Construction Manager at Risk ("CM"), as a portion of its required Scope of Services and prior to submitting its pricing proposal, will discuss and clarify with the Contracting Authority and/or Owner, the breakdown of the Agreement detailed cost components, to address the Owner's project requirements and refine the project schedule. As required by the Agreement, and as properly authorized, provide the following categories of services: provide constructability review comments on documents produced by the A/E during the Construction Document and permitting phases; develop and maintain estimates of probable construction cost, value engineering, project schedules, and construction schedules; lead and manage the Subcontractor Prequalification and Bidding process, Construction and Closeout Stage. The preconstruction and construction services are generally described below. Subcontracts including but not limited to: Plumbing, Fire Protection, HVAC, Electrical and AV/Technology will be awarded by the CM to vendors using a competitive process. The parties will engage in an "open book" pricing method in which all subcontracted work shall be based upon competitive pricing that will be reviewed by the Contracting Authority and/or Owner, the A/E and the CM. The Contracting Authority and/or Owner shall have access to all books, records, documents and other data in the CM's possession related to itself, its subcontractors and material suppliers pertaining to bidding, pricing or performance of the Agreement.