Next steps revealed for USF Bulls’ on-campus football stadium

[bulloni]

1 hour ago, Brad said:

I am not in the conscruction business so disregard my perspective, but August 19th seems awfully early to be awarding any kind of a stadium build to anyone.  Maybe awarding the drawing of the first rendering?

Here’s the whole timeline, honestly so fast I’d think we’ve been working with design firms for months behind the scenes. No way they’d have a whole proposal with renderings drawn up within a month

[Brad]

I know someone that attended in hopes of being a supplier...But he wasn't in stadium construction.  I'm not sure what they mean by supplier, he was tech...That tweeted link doesn't work for me, maybe I'll go to the site and see if there is any more info...

[MaltLiquorBull]

just don’t award the contact to these guys

 

[Bull Matrix]

Mr Dunderbach’s Stadium 

[79 Bull]

Maybe posted earlier, but I just saw that UCF received $19.5 million for 10 years of stadium naming rights to some mortgage company.  Hopefully by 2025, we'll be in the $25 to $30 million range for 10 years.  I'm no finance guy, but $2.5 to $3 million per year would sure help pay down some of the debt.

GO BULLS!

[DJBulls]

On 8/2/2022 at 8:16 PM, MaltLiquorBull said:

just don’t award the contact to these guys

 

Hey, they come through though...it may be a bit unorthodox, but who cares!?!

[usfsig]

On 8/2/2022 at 7:19 PM, bulloni said:

Here’s the whole timeline, honestly so fast I’d think we’ve been working with design firms for months behind the scenes. No way they’d have a whole proposal with renderings drawn up within a month

So the "Intent to Award" date is exactly how it sounds. This project will be design-build so the General Contractor they select will be tasked with all phases of building the project. The Intent to Award will likely be a Letter of Intent ("LOI") that tell the GC "hey we are going to select you to build this project, for this budget, and for this timeline". From that point it will be the GC's responsibility to timely get their design finished, subcontractors on board, and various other tasks in conjunction with the construction schedule provided by USF.

Source: I negotiate multi-million dollar construction contracts for a national design-build electrical contractor.

[bulloni]

On 8/2/2022 at 7:19 PM, bulloni said:

Supplier presentations today, wonder if we hear anything. Imagine fine details of the proposals won't leak, but maybe details on who all made proposals?

[Rocky Style]

17 minutes ago, bulloni said:

Supplier presentations today, wonder if we hear anything. Imagine fine details of the proposals won't leak, but maybe details on who all made proposals?

Let's get those deets.

[Peatearpan]

On 8/2/2022 at 10:47 PM, Bull Daly said:

Mr Dunderbach’s Stadium 

Food and beer would be way too expensive.