Description
The City of Las Vegas (City) hereby invites individual artist’s or an artist team (Offerors) to submit written Statements Of Qualifications (SOQ’s) to create a profound and lasting work of art in honor of America’s service men and women. The Veterans’ Memorial is being funded by Las Vegas Veteran’s Memorial, a 501 ©(3) non-profit corporation. The Las Vegas Arts Commission and an evaluation committee will select a finalist that will work with the Las Vegas Veteran’s Memorial in preparing a design. The design will need to integrate an expandable commemorative component, such as a brick walkway, commemorative wall, or digital reader, where donors can pay tribute to family members or others who proudly served in the armed forces. The successful offerors and finalist will also be asked to submit a design for perimeter fencing to surround the entire park. All design proposals will need to be pedestrian friendly, ADA compliant, and vandal resistant to the extent feasible.

The finalist will be required to provide any structural and electrical engineering plans for the memorial, submit the plans for review and approval by the city of Las Vegas, fabricate the memorial, and install the memorial at Huntridge Circle Park. Each Successful Offeror will need to prepare a budget which will include all costs associated with the fabrication, installation, and maintenance for the work of art. The Finalist will be responsible to deliver the artwork complete and fully installed. All design intellectual property rights, fabrication, labor, materials, transportation, installation, insurance, engineering, landscaping, permitting, and contingency and every other related cost is the sole responsibility of the Las Vegas Veteran’s Memorial which the Finalist will contract through.

Deadline for Submission: October 29, 2009, 1:30pm Pacific Standard Time (PST)

Budget: $800,000

Eligibility: Open to all artists or design groups. No geographic requirements.

Process: Four successful offerors (a.k.a semi-finalists) will be invited to submit design proposals. Each will be required to visit Vegas twice – one time to view the site and another to present their proposal. Each will receive a $5,000 honorarium.

Anticipated Award Date: April 2010

Anticipated Installation Date: April 2011

Web Site: http://www.lasvegasnevada.gov/information/11935.htm – click on ‘request for statements’