A little history of how we got here
In early 2004 building committee was asked to pursue a renovation project.
Early 2005 – A team of OCM brothers and sisters (building committee) interviewed architects and eventually hired CRI (Cetra Ruddy Inc.).
In 2006, CRI along with the building committee sent out a questionnaire to OCM department heads to fill out. Then CRI and the building committee met with fellowship staffs, different department heads, and church staff to see the inner workings of the church and to get their input. A program book was developed detailing church functioning. CRI used that program book along with the conversations they had with church staff and leaders to develop to drawings that was presented in the 45 anniversary on OCT 2006.
Thanksgiving DAY 2006 – this was when a new committee was started – Renovation committee which consisted of 20+ men and woman who were past steering committee members and professionals of the trade.
This committee much looked at the feasibility study and tried to improve upon it.
Spring 2008 – Executive committee (EC) was formed and this would be the group would oversee the renovation project process and assess the direction for the church, report to SC, and so forth. This group would also coordinate efforts to between the various church leaders and various entities of the renovation project (whether professionals or different internal groups).
Around that time, with the collaboration of the renovation committee and pastoral staff, we reviewed and edited the program book to update it to our current situation. A final version was approved.
Summer 2008 – At that time we decided to see if CRI would truly be a good fit for us or not. SO we decided to revisit this whole process and look at it with fresh eyes and interview different architects.
The Owners rep group (OR) developed a request for proposal (RFP) to be sent out to over 10 architect firms, and I believe we received 10 back. From that 10 EC and OR discussed which ones we thought would work well with OCM. We narrow it down to 6. From there we interviewed, then narrow it to 2 and interviewed again and then interviewed the finalist with the steering committee. It turned out we still believed that CRI would be the best fit for our church. By this time it was approx Fall of 2008.
We then interviewed 2 lawyers to review the contract for the architects
Fall 2008, immediately after the Architect selection was over, we started to look for a construction manager to help us on cost estimates and the feasibility of the designs the architects would design.
Again, OR developed a wonderful RFP to send out the potential construction managers. We sent out 19 RFP, and we received 13 proposals back.
EC and OR reviewed the all the proposals, which was no easy task (they were pretty thick) and narrow it down to 6 companies.
We interviewed the 6 companies and performed a 2nd interview with 3 companies. Then we had an interview with the finalist with the steering committee. This ended around Spring 2009.
