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Bid Title

OSU-CASCADES (OSU-C) PHASE 3 REMEDIATION DESIGN-BUILD (D-B) SERVICES

Issuing Agency

Oregon State University

Location

Oregon

Published Date

Jan 21, 2026

Closing Date

Feb 12, 2026

Government Level

State & Local

Status

Closed

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Description

Oregon State University (“OSU” and/or “Owner”) is conducting a competitive TWO-STEP Request for Proposal (RFP) process to o retain one (1) Civil Construction Design Build (“DB”) team for the OSU Cascades Remediation Phase 3 (the “Project” or "Phase 3”).

The terms “Design-Build Contractor” and “Design-Build” team may be used interchangeably and are generally defined as the proposing firm with whom OSU may contract with to provide professional design, management and construction services to design, remediate and construct the Project.
All firms that are submitting a response to this RFP must submit a single response. OSU will only enter into an Agreement with ONE (1) firm.

OSU is seeking Proposals from General Contractors only with the selected Design-Builder conducting a qualifications-based selection of a Design Professional as part of its initial Preliminary Services. The OSU Project Manager will be required to be the sole OSU representative in that procurement process as an advisory member to the selection committee. The Design-Builder will facilitate the procurement process of a Design Professional in accordance with the Design-Build Agreement. It is anticipated that this procurement process along with site-investigation and a collaboration meeting with OSU-Cascades and their environmental consultant team will comprise the bulk of the initial Preliminary Services Sum as defined in the Design-Build Agreement. This Preliminary Services Sum proposal will be requested of the short-listed firms and help to inform the scoring and selection in the second step with further information being provided following the short-listing.

OSU WILL ONLY BE ACCEPTING SEALED RESPONSES ELECTRONICALLY - Responses are to be submitted to bids@oregonstate.edu by the Due Date/Time.

MANDATORY PRE-PROPOSAL CONFERENCES & SITE VISIT- A Mandatory informational meeting will be held on January 27, 2026, at 10:30 AM PT on campus (1500 SW Chandler Ave – Bend, OR) in the Ray Hall 202 Boardroom followed by a site visit.

All questions shall be submitted via e-mail to constructioncontracts@oregonstate.edu by the Question Deadline in order to be addressed. The email subject line should contain the Solicitation Number/Name and Firm Name.

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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) #2026-020512

OSU-CASCADES (OSU-C) PHASE 3 REMEDIATION DESIGN-

BUILD (D-B) SERVICES

ISSUE DATE: January 21, 2026

MANDATORY PRE-PROPOSAL CONFERENCE & SITE

VISIT:

January 27, 2026, at 10:30 AM Pacific Time (PT) at

OSU Cascades Ray Hall 202 Boardroom

RFP DUE DATE/TIME:

February 12, 2026, at 2:00 PM Pacific Time (PT) via

electronic submission to bids@oregonstate.edu

QUESTION DEADLINE: February 3, 2026, at 12:00 PM Pacific Time (PT)

PROJECT NUMBER: 2563-25B

APPEALS:

CONTRACT ADMINISTRATOR:

Hanna Emerson, Assistant Vice President & Chief

Matt Hausman, Construction Contracts Officer

Procurement Officer

Construction Contracts Administration

Office of Procurement, Payment & Travel

Oregon State University

Oregon State University

644 SW 13th Street

644 SW 13th Street

Corvallis, OR 97333

Corvallis, OR 97333

Email: constructioncontracts@oregonstate.edu

Email: hanna.emerson@oregonstate.edu

It is the Offeror’s responsibility to continue to monitor the OSU Business and Bid Opportunities website for

Addenda. Failure to acknowledge any Addenda in the Transmittal Letter may cause your Proposal to be

considered non-responsive.

OSU standards and policies govern this solicitation (Procurement Thresholds and Methods, Procurement

Solicitations and Contracts) unless otherwise referenced or stated.

RFP No. 2026-020512 – OSU-C PH 3 REMEDIATION D-B SERVICES

Due Date/Time: 2/12/2026 at 2:00 PM Pacific Time

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1.0 INTRODUCTION

1.1 Oregon State University (“OSU” and/or “Owner”) is conducting a competitive TWO-STEP

Request for Proposal (RFP) process to o retain one (1) Civil Construction Design Build (“DB”) team for

the OSU Cascades Remediation Phase 3 (the “Project” or "Phase 3”).

The terms “Design-Build Contractor” and “Design-Build” team may be used interchangeably and are

generally defined as the proposing firm with whom OSU may contract with to provide professional

design, management and construction services to design, remediate and construct the Project.

All firms that are submitting a response to this RFP must submit a single response. OSU will only

enter into an Agreement with ONE (1) firm.

OSU is seeking Proposals from General Contractors only with the selected Design-Builder

conducting a qualifications-based selection of a Design Professional as part of its initial Preliminary

Services. The OSU Project Manager will be required to be the sole OSU representative in that

procurement process as an advisory member to the selection committee. The Design-Builder will

facilitate the procurement process of a Design Professional in accordance with the Design-Build

Agreement. It is anticipated that this procurement process along with site-investigation and a

collaboration meeting with OSU-Cascades and their environmental consultant team will comprise

the bulk of the initial Preliminary Services Sum as defined in the Design-Build Agreement. This

Preliminary Services Sum proposal will be requested of the short-listed firms and help to inform

the scoring and selection in the second step with further information being provided following the

short-listing.

OSU WILL ONLY BE ACCEPTING SEALED RESPONSES ELECTRONICALLY - Responses are to be

submitted to bids@oregonstate.edu by the Due Date/Time.

MANDATORY PRE-PROPOSAL CONFERENCES & SITE VISIT- A Mandatory informational meeting will

be held on January 27, 2026, at 10:30 AM PT on campus (1500 SW Chandler Ave – Bend, OR) in the

Ray Hall 202 Boardroom followed by a site visit.

All questions shall be submitted via e-mail to constructioncontracts@oregonstate.edu by the

Question Deadline in order to be addressed. The email subject line should contain the Solicitation

Number/Name and Firm Name.

1.2 Background. Founded in 1868 as Oregon’s land grant institution, OSU serves the state, the

nation and the world as a premier 21st-century research university. OSU is committed to exceptional

research, discovery, innovation and engagement — and to integrating its research and engagement

mission with the delivery of a high-quality, globally relevant and affordable education for the people

of Oregon and beyond. OSU is one of only four land, sea, space and sun grant universities in the U.S.

and is the only university in Oregon to have earned both Carnegie Classifications for Very High

Research Activity and Community Engagement. In 2013, the Oregon Legislature allocated the first

phase of capital to build an OSU campus in Bend, offering a range of undergraduate and graduate

degrees.

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Oregon State University - Cascades in Bend, Oregon is located within the traditional homelands of

the Wasq'u (Wasco) and Tana'nma (Warm Springs) people who legally retain customary hunting,

fishing and gathering rights to the region, and who have been stewards of this land since time

immemorial. Numu (Paiute) peoples were forcibly relocated to this region from the area of Lake,

Harney, and Malheur counties in Oregon. Today, the living descendants of these people are a part of

the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. It is OSU-Cascades' intent and responsibility to work with

tribes to recognize Indigenous rights in the region. Indigenous people are valued, contributing

members of the Oregon State community and represent multiple sovereign tribes among students,

faculty, staff and alumni.

Oregon State University accepts its responsibility for understanding the continuing impact of that

history on these communities. Oregon State is committed — in the spirit of self-reflection, learning,

reconciliation, and partnership — to ensure that this institution of higher learning will be of enduring

benefit, not only to the state of Oregon, but also to the people on whose ancestral lands it is now

located.

The first OSU-Cascades (“OSU-C”) building opened in fall 2016 on a 10-acre site adjacent to a former

pumice mine (now owned by the university) and a former construction demolition landfill. Through

long range development planning (“LRDP”) and master planning processes over the next few years

that followed, the university had evaluated both the pumice mine and landfill for future campus

development and expansion to accommodate up to 5,000 students. In April 2018, after significant

planning and remediation/redevelopment investigations, OSU acquired the former Deschutes County

Demolition Landfill, a brownfield site, for remediation and redevelopment for future use as the

university campus.

The LRDP process included a commitment to sustainably developing a triple Net-Zero campus. Triple

Net-Zero means the campus will balance energy use, water consumption, and waste generation with

energy generation, water reuse, and material recycling. The LRDP net zero energy plan has been

further developed into an energy master plan for the campus allowing each future capital project to

leverage the energy study recommendations and design guidelines that will incrementally move the

campus along the net zero energy path. The net zero water goal has been further studied, and a

subsequent water master plan has been developed as well.

In 2018, the university began the first work to reclaim the pumice mine and remediate the first

section of landfill. Over the course of 18 months over 500,000 cubic yards of waste and native earth

were moved to fill in the pumice mine and remove waste from the landfill area transforming a once

blighted landscape into a college campus with parking, trails, and walk paths. In 2019 OSU started

construction on Edward J. Ray Hall (“Ray Hall”), a 50,000 SF net-zero energy ready prototypical mass

timber academic building supported by a new open loop geo-exchange. In 2025, OSU completed the

Student Success Center, a 17,500 SF Net-zero energy ready mass timber student services and

engagement focused building and opened the District Utility Plant 2 (DUP2), the beginning of the

campus’ 4th generation district energy system. Additionally, OSU completed the Innovation District

Phase 1 remediation and infrastructure project which now includes 11 acres of developable land for

the first 5 Innovation District Buildings and new roads, utilities, stormwater facilities and pathways.

OSU-C is now ready to move forward with the third phase of remediation, redevelopment, and civil

construction that will open up the middle of campus. OSU-C’s concept for this work involves

minimizing offsite haul of waste and import of material by reusing the soil that can be harvested

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from the waste. Additionally, OSU-C will harvest native soil from the site and use a common fill as the

bottom of the landfill is brought back up to elevation.

The area in which this next phase of remediation and redevelopment will occur contains landfill

waste. The area is owned by OSU but is “operated” as a closed landfill by Deschutes County Solid

Waste under a solid waste disposal permit issued by the Oregon Department of Environmental

Quality (DEQ). That permit authorizes OSU to redevelop the area consistent with and pursuant to a

separate agreement with DEQ contained in the 2018 Consent Judgement Prospective Purchaser

Agreement (Exhibit 2) that OSU negotiated with DEQ. The Consent Judgement outlines the general

requirements for remediation as approved by the DEQ. The pumice mine has been reclaimed

pursuant to DOGAMI requirements but the operating permit for the pumice mine is still in place.

Finishing the work in the bottom of the pumice mine by bringing up the elevation is one key goal `of

this project.

1.3 Location. The Project will be located on the OSU-C campus at 1500 SW Chandler Ave, Bend,

Oregon 97702.

1.4 Summary of Work. Although, the services within this contract will include but are not

limited to civil design, survey, contamination abatement, pyrolysis specialist (as needed),

geotechnical design/observation (contracted under the General Contractor), landfill waste removal

from Cell 2 (“Area 2” and “Cell 2” are interchangeable names), sorting of waste for reclaimed soil,

finish filling in the pumice mine and finally build out roadways, utilities, and other infrastructure to

support the development of the site. This work will be led by a civil construction services general

contractor and OSU-C is seeking to begin this team with only the civil construction services general

contractor. Then the selected general contractor will lead a solicitation to select their design firm and

subconsultants to complete their DB team.

1.5 Scope of Services.

1.5.1 Project Team Behavior

1.5.1.1 The OSU approach to construction involves intense collaboration and we

request that Proposers assess their readiness for this level of cooperation. The

Successful Proposer will need to commit to working with OSU and our supporting

consultants to achieve optimum results given the budget and constraints. Missing or

overlooking minimum Project requirements, exceeding the budget or late delivery

are not options; we, as a team, will succeed.

1.5.1.2 OSU is seeking a team with whom we can partner to develop the ultimate

solutions for this Project. The combination of DB team (inclusive of design

professional, consultants and contractor) ideas with early trade partner input is a

powerful tool in project delivery and we intend to incorporate all the value we can

from these creative groups. OSU has selected a master environmental consultant,

Maul Foster & Alongi (MFA) out of Portland, Oregon. It is OSU’s intent that MFA will

provide all environmental consulting and monitoring support for the Project.

Additional details about MFA’s scope of work with OSU can be found in Exhibit 13.

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1.5.2

Preliminary Project timeline (dates are tentative and subject to change)

Contract Execution for Prelim Services 1

Preliminary Evaluation of Project Criteria

Preliminary Services 2 Design Execution

Final Design Report Submission to DEQ

Final Design Report Approval by DEQ

Begin Construction Phase Services (GMP 1)

Begin Construction Phase Services (GMP 2)

Begin Construction Phase Services (GMP 3)

Substantial Completion

Final Completion

April 24, 2026

May 8, 2026

June 19, 2026

July 3, 2026

July 31, 2026

August 3, 2026

November 9, 2026

July 9, 2027

February 2028

April 2028

1.5.3 Project description and goals are generally described below:

1.5.3.1 The Project will involve execution of the following activities, pursuant to the

Consent Judgement Document (see Exhibit 2), as outlined below: (Scope assignments

to Preliminary Service and each GMP are estimates and are subject to change.)

Additionally, the timing of each scope or GMP will be subject to funding availability.

(a) Preliminary Service 1 anticipated scopes: The General Contractor will work with

OSU to refine and execute their design-build partner procurement process that is

submitted in Step 2 of this RFP; collaborate with the owner and environmental

consultant team to survey the site and further develop the documentation for

the overall approach to the Project (see first draft design and specs submitted to

DEQ in May 2025 in Exhibit 12). This work will include but is not limited to

further developing the required DEQ work plans for the overall project;

developing plans for low likelihood but possible scenarios such as handling any

unauthorized waste, high temperature waste, asbestos containing materials

(ACM); and considerations for site laydown work areas, mass excavation and

haul routes in the different areas. Lastly, any job site specific safety training

(HAZWOPR, Landfill Fire Training, etc.) for crews should also occur during this

phase in preparation for the upcoming construction work.

(b) Preliminary Service 2 anticipated scopes: onboarding of the selected design

partner, kickoff of the design and permitting of the roads and utilities for Bowl

Road, Metolius Drive and Innovation Way to connect to the OSU-C Campus

infrastructure and possible new roundabout design at the intersection of the 3

roads mentioned above. Finally, the team will plan the approach to the City of

Bend permitting process and design scope for the infrastructure that will be built

within budget. Possible utilities and infrastructure may include but are not

limited to: Reclaimed water, domestic water, natural gas, power, data, low temp

hot water and cooling water lines, condenser line, ground water lines, gravity

and pumped sewer and supporting pump station, storm water facilities and

conveyance and final landscaping.

(c) GMP 1 anticipated scopes: excavation of cover soil from Landfill Area 3 to be

stockpiled for reuse as cover soil and/or mixed with the Reclaimed Soil.

Commodity Codes

• NAICS 236220Commercial and Institutional Building Construction
• NAICS 541330Engineering Services
• NAICS 562910Remediation Services

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