Board Approves Contract

After a brief negotiation of terms, the Lafayette Parish School System and CSRS have reached an agreement on terms on a facilities master planning agreement. In order to reach a final agreement, CSRS had to cut the original fee proposal by nearly thirty percent. A portion of those cuts coincided with the district’s acceptance of cost saving measures included in the CSRS proposal.

 

Areas in the scope that were affected include the facility assessments, CADD space inventory, and Educational Specifications. CSRS had proposed to conduct the facility assessments in two phases to potentially save the district over $100,000. Since Architects Southwest, a local architecture firm and member of the CSRS team, had developed the districts existing CADD inventory several years ago, it was agreed that those files would be sufficient for master planning purposes and the entire scope could be eliminated. The development of formal Educational Specifications originally proposed has been replaced with a short version specification utilizing existing information from the district and data provided by the CSRS team.

 

The final agreement accomplishes the intent of the original RFP while saving the district over $400,000 in fees. According to the agreement, the final master plan must be complete within 12 months from notice to proceed.