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Request for Proposals - Consultant Services

Historic Design Guidelines
The Consolidated Government of Columbus, Georgia
Submittal Deadline: September 1, 2008

RFP No. 09-0001

The Consolidated Government of Columbus, Georgia is seeking proposals to
update and reformat the existing Design Guidelines used for approval of
Certificate of Appropriateness in the locally designated historic
districts. This project does not call for entirely new sets of
guidelines. Instead, the successful consultant will work with and refine
existing guidelines creating opportunities for interpretations that are
more specific, color renderings, digitalization, and other tools
described below.

Introduction
The Columbus Consolidated Government updated its current Design
Guidelines in August 2000 under a grant from the State Historic
Preservation Office (SHPO). This year, the City of Columbus received an
additional SHPO grant to update these existing Design Guidelines. The
consultant will be required to update and improve upon the existing
Design Guidelines.

The updated guidelines should provide information and examples pertinent
to all the historic districts in the community. The guidelines should
address different periods of residential architecture; should be focused
on Columbus's historic resources; and should be easily understood by
citizens throughout the community. The City of Columbus will use maximum
open competition to choose a consultant with professional historic
preservation qualifications to update the guidelines.

City staff, local preservation groups and the Board of Historic and
Architectural Review (BHAR) members will assist with the review and
editing of the final document. The final document should be in both
electronic copy and hard-copy formats and will make the existing Design
Guidelines user-friendlier.

Products
The consultant will produce: 

*	1 (one) Camera-Ready copy of the updated design guidelines 
*	100 (one hundred) Hard copies 
*	1 (one) Master CD 
*	2 (two) back-up CD's ready to reproduction 

Deadlines
Due to the nature of the funding, the following deadlines must be
strictly followed: 

	*	Sealed proposal due no later than 5:00 PM (Eastern) on
September 1, 2008. 
	*	First draft of Design Guidelines due no later than April
1, 2009 
	*	Final draft of Design Guidelines due no later than June
1, 2009 
	*	Final project submission due by September 1, 2009, after
BHAR adopts the design guidelines. 

Complete specifications are available at
http://www.columbusga.org/finance/proposals_frame.htm
<http://www.columbusga.org/finance/proposals_frame.htm_>  or by
contacting Della Lewis at email dlewis at columbusga.org
<mailto:dlewis at columbusga.org_> .

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