A Request for Qualifications was issued for Town Square Redevelopment.  The City received and opened four (4) responses publicly on November 22, 2016.  The responses were evaluated in accordance with the criteria explained in the RFQ for evaluating Part I.

The responses were reviewed by the Selection Committee, comprised of: Lori LaVerriere, City Manager; Michael Simon, Interim CRA Executive Director; Andrew Mack, Director of Development; Jeff Livergood, Director of Public Works; LInda Cross, Chair of CRA Advisory Board; and Ryan Wheeler, Planning and Development Board Member.

The responses were reviewed and scored by the Selection Committee.  The summary results are as follows:

     FIRM                         SCORE (Max - 600)               RANKING

Boynton Vision                         510                                        1

E2L Real Estate Sol                 454                                        2

MCC, LLC                                434                                        3

Town Sq Partners                    422                                        4

In accordance with Section 4 - Evaluation of Proposals, B.6., the committee has reviewed and ranked the RFQ Part I submittals and are submitting the ranked list to the Commission for acceptance and recommending the Commission to move the top three (3) ranked submittals to Proposal Part II of the process.

The responses were evaluated based on the information submitted in the following areas:

• Applicant/Team Experience
• Project Team Structure
• Financial Capability

The goal of inviting proposers to respond to Part II is to give the City information concerning the developer teams proposal in order to select a development partner to redevelop the Town Square.

City Commission may accept the Committee's rankings and request the top (3) ranked firms to move forward to Part II or;

The Commission may change the number of proposers being requested to move to Part II or;

The Commission may not accept the rankings as provided by the Selection Committee and request a new RFQ be issued.