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Request for Proposals - Consultant Services

UCSB Faculty and Staff Housing
University of California, Santa Barbara
Submittal Deadline: June 1, 2007

INTRODUCTION
The University of California Santa Barbara is aggressively pursuing a
housing program in support of its faculty and staff. In response to the
growing challenge of recruitment and retention of topnotch faculty and
staff, due in large part to the high cost of local residential real
estate, UCSB is taking major steps to meet this challenge. The campus
has approvals for 172 units of new faculty and staff housing, and is in
the process of updating its Long Range Development Plan (LRDP), which
includes 1,562 units of new faculty and staff housing.

To strengthen its planning, the campus is soliciting proposals from
professional real estate consultants, developers and business or
property management firms to develop a strategic business plan and an
operations management plan to help guide the campus as it begins to
develop and provide workforce housing for its faculty and staff.

SCOPE OF WORK (ABRIDGED)
The following outline scope of work should be viewed as describing
minimum needs; as such, the campus is providing flexibility and latitude
to propose creative, well-informed alternative approaches, strategies or
suggestions that address the campus' goals and objectives.

Consultant/Firm to formulate comprehensive strategic business plan with
integral operations management plan, and of alternative plan approaches.


The strategic business plan should include comparative, pro-forma
financial and cost-benefit analyses, and the management plan should
consider alternative approaches. Among the issues these plans must
address are:

*	How to best manage the campus' overall inventory of faculty and
staff housing, including both current and future planned housing. How
best to manage risk, both financial and operational. 
*	How to best develop the campus' faculty and staff housing
inventory, which is intended to be self-sustaining and affordable. 
*	How to best incorporate stakeholders in governance while
minimizing risk to the University. 
*	A strategy the campus should pursue to develop and manage new
residential properties available to faculty and staff at 50-70% of
market value. 
*	The best method and preferred management approach to controlling
fixed and variable costs in a price/rent-controlled, mixed-use
residential housing venture. 

Of particular interest to the campus is what management approach should
be taken to implement the faculty and staff housing program most
effectively. The campus would consider at least three options that
should be analyzed, these include:

*	Campus-Managed Operations 
*	UC-Affiliated, Non-Profit Management Operations (i.e.,
Affiliated Housing Authority) 
*	External Management Structure 

Ultimately, the campus believes the Strategic Business Plan must be
formulated to help inform the development of campus policies pertinent
to the implementation of the faculty-and staff- housing program. Thus,
the goal of this comprehensive study is to develop an integrated
strategic-management plan that provides the campus with the information
and tools necessary to develop sound and effective campus policies that
ensure timely and efficient development, and cost-effective operations,
maintenance, and management of its entire faculty-and staff-housing
program.

Please review entire RFP at to http://bap.ucsb.edu/development.html
<http://bap.ucsb.edu/development.html> . Proposals are due Friday, June
1, 2007. Please direct any questions to Martha Levy at 805-893-8541
(e-mail martie.levy at bap.ucsb.edu <mailto:martie.levy at bap.ucsb.edu> ) or
Karen Rothberg at 805-893-3801 (e-mail karen.rothberg at bap.ucsb.edu
<mailto:karen.rothberg at bap.ucsb.edu> ).

 

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