General Scope of Work: The project includes construction services to install a dedicated IT network to serve the HVAC control system(s) in the Albany Stratton Veterans Administration Medical Center (VAMC) located at 113 Holland Ave, Albany, New York. The IT network will serve a combination of existing and new network controllers and provide a robust backbone for extending direct digital controls (DDC) to new systems in the future. The primary protocol to be supported is BACnet over IP using a TCP/IP backbone. All items contained in the approved drawings and specifications dated September 31, 2024 and September 13, 2024, respectively, including the design narrative and appendices and any approved revisions are part of this contract. Contractors are also required to adhere to specification section 013200, Construction Documentation. Contractor will be required to use Autodesk Build as the construction management platform. Contractor will also be required to have completed and approved submittals prior to mobilizing. The submittals required to be completed prior to mobilization are shown in the submittal register. Background: The Albany VAMC is an older building that is continuously being renovated to keep up with changing needs and standards. The facility consists of a main building plus several attached buildings and several detached buildings most of which are served by an existing building management system (BMS). The combined area is approximately 859,000 sq. ft. An IT network for the BMS has evolved as numerous individual projects were completed and tied into a communication network on an ad–hoc and piecemeal fashion. The BMS network as it currently exists is unmanaged and supports two different DDC Vendors Automated Logic Corporation and Trane. Both of these DDC systems have controllers that span several manufacturing generations. The exponential growth of the DDC control systems and IP addresses using this shared network has created a risk that the VA wishes to