Architectural Modernization, Adaptive Interior Design, and Spatial Master Planning for Healthcare Facilities

Solicitation Number: USSB-ARCH-HLTH-2026

1. Introduction

The issuing entity is a premier, non-profit regional acute care hospital network and multi-specialty healthcare system providing comprehensive emergency, surgical, maternity, cardiovascular, and outpatient clinical services. To keep pace with rapid regional population growth and evolving clinical care standards, the health system continuously updates, expands, and reconfigures its clinical care suites, administrative support zones, and specialized outpatient care environments. Modernizing active healthcare facilities introduces distinct operational challenges: legacy building layouts often create bottlenecks in patient and staff flow, fail to capture natural daylight, and struggle to integrate modern medical technology alongside strict acoustic and visual privacy standards. Furthermore, executing interior transformations and structural adaptations without disrupting ongoing 24/7 patient care, compromising infection control boundaries, or escalating long-term maintenance costs represents a critical operational pain point. To resolve these facility challenges, the healthcare system is issuing this Sources Sought notice to identify qualified small business architectural firms capable of delivering pragmatic, sustainable architectural design, adaptive interior planning, and user-centric spatial integration tailored specifically for high-demand medical environments.

2. Core Requirements

To achieve facility modernization goals and optimize clinical operational workflows, the selected firm must provide comprehensive, end-to-end architectural, interior design, and space planning services. Essential core resolutions include:

• Clinical Spatial Restructuring & Workflow Optimization: Restructuring interior layouts to enhance functional flow between patient reception, clinical examination rooms, surgical support, and staff collaboration spaces.

• Human-Centric & Sustainable Healthcare Design: Incorporating sustainable concepts, low-VOC materials, and passive daylighting strategies to promote healing, improve indoor environmental quality, and lower ongoing operating expenses.

• Adaptive Reuse & Multi-Zone Integration: Seamlessly repurposing existing administrative and clinical space to accommodate new medical technologies and multi-specialty services while maintaining compliance with strict healthcare infection control and physical security boundaries.

• Pragmatic, Low-Maintenance Facility Execution: Delivering cost-effective architectural solutions and material selections that emphasize long-term durability, ease of maintenance, and minimal lifecycle operating costs.

3. Specific Requirements

Interested small business vendors must demonstrate technical expertise, professional credentials, and detailed architectural capabilities across the following specifications:

Healthcare Architecture & Sustainable Facility Engineering

• Daylighting & Passive Environmental Design: Technical specification of low-E glazing systems, strategic lightwell orientations, and energy-efficient lighting controls that maximize natural light in clinical and waiting areas to improve patient well-being and reduce HVAC and electrical loads.

• Material Selection & Life-Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA): Application of life-cycle cost analysis to evaluate durable, sustainable, and low-VOC interior finishes, heavy-use flooring, and impact-resistant wall protection engineered for high-traffic healthcare environments.

• Sustainable & Environmental Standards: Technical proficiency in sustainable design practices aligned with LEED AP BD+C guidelines, ensuring energy-efficient, environmentally sound building performance.

Adaptive Interior Architecture & Regulatory Compliance

• Acoustic Engineering & Privacy Integration: Specification of high-performance sound-attenuating wall assemblies, acoustic ceiling baffles, and sound-masking layouts engineered to ensure HIPAA-compliant acoustic privacy in consultation and treatment rooms.

• Building Information Modeling (BIM) & Interdisciplinary Coordination: Generation of detailed 3D BIM models, construction submittals, and architectural drawings to seamlessly coordinate structural, civil, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) systems with healthcare equipment suppliers.

• Code Compliance & Permitting Lifecycle Management: Direct experience navigating municipal, state, and healthcare-specific building codes (including FGI Guidelines for Design and Construction of Hospitals) to ensure smooth municipal plan reviews, permit approvals, and construction administration.

4. Principal Place of Performance

• Location: Rogers, Arkansas

• Facility Function: Regional Acute Care Hospital and Multi-Specialty Outpatient Pavilion

5. NAICS Codes

• 541310: Architectural Services (Primary)

• 541410: Interior Design Services

• 541340: Drafting Services

• 541320: Landscape Architectural Services

• 541350: Building Inspection Services

6. Anticipated Contract Type

The anticipated contract structure for any resulting procurement is a Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract, under which individual task orders will be awarded on a Firm-Fixed-Price basis upon final scope approval per facility project.