Columbia Fire Station Radio Design

The Pierarra House is located at 10915 North Airport Road, Columbia. The site is adjacent next to Columbia Airport on one side and then a mobile home park on the other. This two-story home and airport hangar was constructed in 1966 as a residential home. The home and hangar are roughly 7,184 sq.ft. and is a wood frame construction. The County purchased this facility December 4, 2001, with the intent of renting the house out for office space or as a training site for County Departments. The house has been mostly vacant the past 20 years except for the occasional use by the Sheriff’s Office for training activities. The County is currently working with 4Creeks Architects on a design to repurpose this house into a working fire station. One of the needed elements of this project is the development of a radio system for this building. Attached are the design plans for the facility. As you can see from the plans, we have designated a radio closet area on both the upper and lower floors of this facility. BackgroundIn the conversation of this house into a Fire Station, the County is need of a firm to design a radio system. This design should include the following: 70V Audio System; Integrated Radio System Infrastructure; and VHF Paging Alerting System. See the Scope of Work for more details regarding the needed system. Time is of an essence on this projects as the design plans including the radio system need to be completed by the end of June 2024.TimelineRelease of published RFP:April 9, 2024Deadline for receiving all questions:April 26, 2024, 10:00amDeadline for RFP responses to be received by County:May 1, 2024, 10:00amReview Committee evaluates and ranks proposals:May 2, 2024Notice of contract award (Tentative):May 2, 2024Deadline for protests/appeals (Tentative):May 9, 2024Contract executed (Tentative):May 10,