In an advertisement for prequalification released Nov. 21, the University of California, Los Angeles seeks responses from companies capable of assisting it with a modernization of Pauley Pavilion and three other facilities. Find this and other UCLA capital projects here, and the prequalification questionnaire here. Among the takeaways:
- What’s called the Big Ten Network Phase 1, a.k.a. prequalification, seeks to deliver “Power Five [National Collegiate Athletics Association] NCAA” sports facility electrical power and broadcast audio-visual cabling and equipment infrastructure improvements to Pauley Pavilion, which hosts basketball, volleyball and gymnastics; Jackie Robinson Stadium, which hosts baseball games; Annenberg Stadium, which hosts soccer; and to Easton Stadium, which hosts softball. The work is aimed at supporting UCLA joining the Big Ten Conference and yielding “multiple simultaneous live broadcasts of UCLA Athletic competitions for the Big Ten Network’s B1G+ digital platform.”
- At each of the four sports facilities, the project would install and support necessary upgrades to existing broadcast communication cabling, camera stations, junction box event panels and television reception panels. Existing conduit could be used at each location to run new broadcast cabling. A mobile broadcast studio unit with broadcast equipment, provided by UCLA, would tie into the power at each facility and send signals and feeds to the existing campus fiber-optics network, for distribution to the Big Ten Network’s main studio in Chicago — for further dissemination.
- The project would deliver power to each camera and junction box event panel, and to television reception panels, from an existing electrical substation. Electrical conduit infrastructure and trenching will be needed to support new broadcast communications cabling and provide power distribution infrastructure at each facility. Here again, existing conduit infrastructure can be used to run the new broadcast cabling at each facility. The work may be sequenced and phased to dovetail with existing site occupants and facility operations. At Pauley Pavilion, work must be done at night to accommodate occupants and operations.
- Among the requirements, respondents must have successfully finished one project in California since Jan. 1, 2016, where work included building a new or renovating an existing sports facility — with all activities and programs remaining active during construction. The project must have been a public works project; the facilities must have been at least 50,000 square feet; and the construction cost must have been at least $6.3 million. Respondents must also have done two projects since Jan. 1, 2016, building a new or renovating an existing facility where the work included installing broadcast equipment and cabling and where the cost of that work was at least $2 million.
- Estimated construction cost is $7.8 million, with rounding. Responses are due by 3 p.m. Dec. 6.
