Santa Cruz - Request for Information Responses

Santa Cruz CBOC (36C24W26R0077): Offeror RFI Questions and Answers #

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Area Table 1.1 in the ASR does not list all rooms shown in the Conceptual Floor Plan. Are we to follow the Area Table or the Conceptual Floor Plan?

Offerors should follow the revised Area Table 1.1 for required rooms and square footage. The Conceptual Floor Plan is for illustration only and shows one possible layout. Reference attached file: Area Table 1.1_Rev1_093026

The Conceptual Floor Plan notes the need for a Mobile Medical Unit parking space, but it is not specifically requested elsewhere in the No, a Mobile Medical Unit parking space is not required. ASR. Is a Mobile Medical Unit parking space required?

The Conceptual Floor Plan notes an Ambulance Pick-up, but it is not Yes, VA requires that area sufficient to accommodate an ambulance pickup be provided at a specifically requested elsewhere in the ASR. Is an Ambulance Pick- secondary entrance or service entrance. The purpose of this function is to allow a patient in distress up required?
to be transported to the ambulance without needing to use the front or main entrance to the clinic.

The Conceptual Floor Plan notes the need for a ramped Receiving & Shipping Dock, but it is not specifically requested elsewhere in the VA requires only a loading area that can accommodate a box truck making deliveries of supplies. A ASR. Is a ramped Receiving & Shipping Dock required? If so, what loading dock or a ramped receiving and shipping dock are not requirements for this project. size truck are we required to accommodate?

The Lease defines ABOA under ANSI/BOMA Z65.1-2017 as Occupant Area (Tenant Area plus Area Table 1.1 includes an Electrical and Mechanical Room that Tenant Ancillary Area). Electrical and mechanical rooms that serve the base building are Lessor appear to be included in the ABOA square footage. Please confirm if space and are not counted in ABOA. Rooms that serve only VA equipment within the Premises may these spaces are intended to be included in the ABOA or Lessor be counted in ABOA.
spaces.
Reference attached file: Area Table 1.1_Rev1_093026

Please provide clarity or additional direction on exactly what equipment and spaces are required to have emergency backup. Paragraph 6.0.4 of the ASR references 'mission critical' sections, Reference attached file: Conceptual Floor Plan With Epower locations_093026 however in past experience of similar VA projects, few, if any spaces (beyond OIT) are actually determined to be mission critical.