Design Combined Public Safety Facility Service

The City of DeSoto, Texas is seeking a vendor to provide conceptual design services for a combined public safety facility. The agency needs to solve spatial and operational integration challenges for its Fire, Police, and Dispatch functions. The project covers programming, pre-design, schematic design, and design development phases to establish a cohesive and functional municipal safety hub. During the initial phases, the agency requires the development of a program summary, preliminary space allocation diagrams, and pre-design site layout alternatives. Schematic design must produce conceptual floor plans that optimize operational adjacencies among the three public safety branches. Design development demands refined architectural plans, sections, elevations, and detailed layouts for apparatus bays, living quarters, training areas, a community room, criminal investigation division and police administrative areas, dispatch consoles, a server room, and equipment spaces. Eligible bidders must be onshore organizations based in the United States. The selected vendor must perform all work onsite at the designated location in DeSoto, Texas. The agency has not disclosed a specific budget and is currently looking for proposals to determine the cost. The agency will hold a pre-bid meeting on June 10, 2026. Bidders must submit all questions regarding this opportunity no later than June 26, 2026. The evaluation criteria will be based on the submitted proposals, though specific scoring weights are not detailed in the initial announcement.