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Library <br />www.santa-ana.org/library <br />Item # 21 <br />City of Santa Ana <br />20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br /> Staff Report <br />October 15, 2024 <br />TOPIC: Children’s Interactive Exhibits for the Main Library Renovation Project <br />AGENDA TITLE <br />Agreement with Ravenswood Studio, Inc. to Custom Fabricate, Deliver, and Install <br />Children’s Interactive Exhibits for the Main Library Renovation Project (Specification No. <br />24-107) (Project No. 25-1380) (General Fund) <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />Authorize the City Manager to execute an agreement with Ravenswood Studio, Inc. to <br />provide custom fabrication, delivery, and installation of children’s interactive exhibits for <br />the Main Library Transformation Project, in the amount of $852,535, plus a 10% <br />contingency amount of $85,253, for a total amount not to exceed $937,788, for a term <br />expiring December 31, 2026, with a provision for one 1-year extension (Agreement No. <br />A-2024-XXX). <br />GOVERNMENT CODE §84308 APPLIES: Yes <br />DISCUSSION <br />The Santa Ana Public Library is being reimagined as a destination for hands-on, <br />interactive programming for the entire family. A key element of this transformation is <br />ensuring that children in the community have opportunities to learn through play <br />beginning at a very young age. Therefore, as part of the Main Library Transformation <br />Project, the Library Services Agency will install a variety of custom museum-style <br />exhibits in the Children’s Area. The exhibits will have multi-generational appeal to <br />children and caregivers of all ages. Families will have the ability to engage with an <br />immersive, garden-themed environment that includes spinning gears, matching dials, <br />sensory crawling areas, spinning blocks, light-up memory games, magnetic words, <br />STREAM activity table, an imaginative play boat, dimensional wall murals, and a Rube <br />Goldberg inspired ball run interactive. <br />To ensure the exhibits are designed, fabricated, and installed to meet the City and <br />community’s needs, Request for Proposals (RFP) No. 24-107 was issued on August 22, <br />2024 on the City’s online bid management and publications system.