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It was last January that Mayor Rahm Emanuel
announced his idea to boost tourism by turning Chicago through an international competition to turn the Chicago into “North America's City of Lights" Now, the Sun-Times'
Fran Spielman has uncovered the fact that the "competition" consists of what is basically an
RFP for a “City-wide Lighting Framework Plan”.
This is no competition. No jury is referenced. Proposals will go through The Department of Fleet and Facility Management Department. The deadline for any questions is only two weeks away, with a "pre-submittal conference" at City Hall on June 13th, with July 7th the deadline for submissions, with the winning bid to be announced in “late summer”. There will be no compensation for the first two phases. Up to four finalists will receive $25,000.
At first glance, this doesn't seem like the way to get great design, and the officially unheralded release of the RFP, coupled with the extremely tight deadlines - it took four months to announce the project, but participants get only a month to prepare, and only 10 days to ask questions - indicates the fix may already be in. Still, there's a lot of study here, which I'll be doing, and you can also look at the official documents on the city's website
here. You can also read our original report from January . . .
Chicago: City of Light? Mayor Rahm Sees Luminous Future for his Town's Architecture Official proposal documents on City of Chicago Bids, RFP, RFQ, RFI, Small Order
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