As of October 18,2023, this project has not yet been awarded. A timeline for award has not yet been established. Union County is soliciting SOQs from well-qualified firms, interested in providing construction manager at risk services related to construction of the Union County BARN project. The firm selected will be required to provide construction manager at risk services in conjunction with an architectural and/or engineering, (A/E) firm, yet to be selected to provide architectural and engineering services for design and construction administration of the Union County BARN project. Companies or individuals must be licensed in the State of North Carolina, as set forth under Article 1 of Chapter 87 of the North Carolina Statues. The submittal must be signed by a person who is authorized to bind the proposing Company. Instructions for preparing the SOQ are provided herein. Paper nor e-mail submissions will not be accepted. There is no expressed or implied obligation for Union County to reimburse Offerors for any expenses incurred in preparing a response to this request. Union County reserves the right to reject any or all submittals, to waive technicalities and to make such selection deemed in its best interest. Union County reserves the right to cancel this RFQ. All work performed under this contract shall be in accordance with the General Conditions of the Contract hereinafter set as modified or supplemented by any Contract Amendments, Special Conditions, or other Contract Documents as listed hereinafter as addenda, and other components of the Contract. The project is currently proposed to be constructed on a parcel in Wingate, NC, in close proximity to Wingate University. The anticipated building size is approximately 30,000 sq. ft. and will contain commercial kitchens with customized and specialty kitchen equipment, scaled cold and dry storage, multi-use warehouse space, general offices and conference/training room(s). The A/E and CMAR contracts will be separately led and managed by Union County. The CMAR shall contract directly with the County for all construction; shall publicly advertise as prescribed in NCGS 143-129; and shall pre-qualify and accept bids from first tier sub-contractors for all construction work under this section. The CMAR shall use the prequalification process determined by the County in accordance with (N.C.G.S) 143-135.8, provided that the County and CMAR shall jointly develop the assessment tool and criteria for the specified project, which includes the prequalification scoring and minimum required score for prequalification on the project (refer to Pre-Qualification Policy). The County shall require the CMAR to submit its plan for compliance with (N.C.G.S) 143-128.2 for approval by the County prior to soliciting bids for the project's first-tier subcontractors. The following representative list of services to be provided by the CMAR, is for illustrative purposes and is not intended to be exhaustive or exclusive. The CMAR shall provide consulting, scheduling, estimating, cost control services and will function as one of the key team members along with the County, the A/E, the A/E's consulting team, and the commissioning agent yet to be selected. The CMAR will collaborate with all members of the project team in the assembly of logical work packages to break the project into tasks and will manage the work related to the project. The work of the CMAR may be performed in various phases under separate contracts for each phase. Phases may include pre-construction services, preliminary GMP and Final GMP. Since the construction manager at risk will be providing only professional services for the benefit of the Owner based on a fee for such services, this procurement will be made in accordance with provisions of North Carolina General Statue (N.C.G.S) 143-64.31 which require that firms qualified to provide such services be selected on the basis of demonstrated competence and qualification for the type of professional service required without regard to fee and thereafter negotiate a contract for those services at a fair and reasonable fee with the best qualified firm.