# Charleston County School District Opengov #CP2702

CCSD seeks project managers for its approximately $1.2 billion school capital program

**Posted:** October 28, 2026
**Respond By:** December 02, 2026
**Identifier:** CP2702
**NAICS:** 541611, 236220

Charleston County School District is seeking qualified project management firms for a large, multi-year school facilities and infrastructure program.
- **Government buyer:** Charleston County School District (CCSD), Contracts and Procurement Services and the Capital Programs Department; the initial notice also identifies Procurement and Construction Procurement Services.
- **Procurement:** Project management for the Phase VI Capital Building and Maintenance Program and long-term debt projects. The selected firm or firms will oversee an approximately **$1.2 billion** portfolio; this is the value of the capital program, not a stated project-management contract value.
- **Scope:** Management from planning and design through construction, commissioning, occupancy, and closeout. Work includes new and replacement schools, renovations and recapitalization, classroom and early-education additions, multipurpose rooms, athletic and fine-arts facilities, site and infrastructure improvements, land acquisition, capital maintenance, furniture, fixtures and equipment (FF&E), and IT infrastructure and security projects.
- **Named project locations:** Lucy Beckham High School; Johns Island Elementary; Baptist Hill Middle and High Schools; Meeting Street School at Brentwood; Edith L. Frierson Montessori; East Cooper Montessori; Camp Road Middle; Midland Park Primary; Drayton Hall Elementary; Hunley Park Elementary; Belle Hall Elementary; A.C. Corcoran Elementary; James Island Elementary; the West Ashley Long Savannah area; Laurel Hill Primary; Pepperhill Elementary; Burke High School; Orange Grove Middle School and Pattison’s Academy for Comprehensive Education; Deer Park Middle; and Mary Ford Early Learning and Family Center. Other named district locations in the notice include Ladson Primary, Northwoods Middle, Montessori Community School, and Simmons-Pinckney Middle School.
- **Notable project examples:** A classroom wing at Johns Island Elementary; additions and stadium, weight-room, and parking work at Lucy Beckham High; replacement facilities at Meeting Street School at Brentwood, Midland Park Primary, and Mary Ford Early Learning and Family Center; a Career Technology Education wing at Burke High; and district-wide land purchases for campus expansion, new schools, or bus lots. The project list also includes a new elementary school and early-education classrooms in West Ashley Long Savannah, plus school and athletics improvements across the district.
- **Program scale and funding:** Attachment summaries identify a listed project total of about **$1.119 billion**, including about **$384 million** in unfunded projects. One attachment lists three project-wave totals of approximately $280.3 million, $234.5 million, and $220.2 million. Program funding is contingent on passage of a one-percent education capital improvements sales and use tax referendum.
- **Management requirements:** Project controls and schedule and cost management; construction oversight; risk and quality management; review of change orders and pay applications; commissioning and school-opening readiness; reporting; and coordination with CCSD and its separate program management firm. Firms must hold current South Carolina construction manager and Charleston County business licenses and demonstrate relevant K–12 experience.
- **OEMs and vendors:** No product manufacturers, OEMs, or project-management vendors are named in the provided materials. No product part numbers or purchase quantities are specified.

### Description

Charleston County School District is soliciting qualifications for project management services for its Phase VI 2029–2035 Capital Building and Maintenance Program and Long-Term Debt Projects. The selected firm will manage approximately $1.2 billion in capital construction and maintenance projects over six years, as well as IT infrastructure and security projects. Qualifications and proposal materials must be submitted electronically through OpenGov Procurement by December 2, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. Eastern. The proposal excluding the fee proposal and the separate fee proposal are requested as separate submissions.

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