The university continues to experience growth in the student population, STEM and health fields, and its research mission. This growth in STEM education and research stretches the limits of the campus facilities and highlights deficiencies in existing buildings. The existing Science Building (072) houses Chemistry and Biology. This 1970's era building is currently at its maximum occupancy and is unable to accommodate additional research labs or teaching labs. The challenges and limitations the university has encountered in Building 072 have made it very apparent that the needs created by the research mission are best designed into a new science research building. From a facilities standpoint, the university's objective is to create a state-of the-art research facility that will allow recruitment of top researchers, attract new grant funding, and preserve needed academic space. The new building is envisioned to house interdisciplinary research and programs which will include the life sciences as well as other programs overlapping with these areas of research. Research labs will be designed to have systems with ample capacity, be flexible, modular and ideally suited to support collaborative research. The anticipated total construction budget of $100 million reflects the cost of constructing a complex building at a scale large enough to accommodate growth needs for STEM programming at Boise State. All questions must be sent to the DPW Project Manager: Martin Santoyo, Project Manager Division of Public Works 502 N. 4th St. PO Box 83720 Boise ID 83720-0072 (208) 332-1913 Martin.Santoyo@adm.idaho.gov A comprehensive programming study will be conducted by the selected design team; at this time it is anticipated this new building will serve primarily as an interdisciplinary research and academic building for life sciences. In addition to state-of-the-art research labs, the following programmatic elements will be evaluated: faculty offices, graduate student spaces, informal learning areas, teaching labs, a large lecture hall, and active learning classrooms. The building is anticipated to be 90,000 - 110,000 GSF. DPW reserves the right to investigate the financial responsibility for the CM/GC firm. Unfavorable responses regarding financial statements, bank references, interviews with past consultants, employees, creditors, past or current litigation, the Idaho Division of Occupational Licenses or consultants that were the cause of improperly managing a DPW project in the past seven years are grounds for rejection of RFQ submittal.