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[QUOTE="NJCuse97, post: 1671151, member: 5058"]
Permits require drawings, so they would have to publicly announce the open RFP (Request for Proposals) or sometimes called an SOQ (statement of Qualifications) for the design of the facility first. Once that is done and the abundance of proposals are vetted and shortlisted, then they would have to interview the 5-10 firms on the shortlist. Once that is awarded, they would have to do the design, culminating in Permit Documents (sometimes these are also Construction Documents). Bid documents can be issued prior to permit documents and often are so that a contractual estimate can be generated (at this scale I would assume they request a GMP or guaranteed maximum price). Permit documents can be rejected and the firm back to the "drawing board" to correct anything the permitting department has deemed inadequate. This is often why Construction Documents either parallel or come after Permit Documents.

It is not out of the question a project of this magnitude would be advertised as a P3 (Public/Private Partnership). That implies there is a developer who will "own" the project and propose a team of Owner/Architect/Contractor. They may not "bid" the project as the developer would win the project based in large part on an estimated cost to do the project and the government would act only as the tenant, letting the team handle the hiring of subs. Still, this would not typically imply there is enough material for a permit. I don't like the P3 as in my experience (limited as it may be, as this is a fairly recent funding model) it leaves the developer to cut corners and take the money saved as profit.
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