This is a service / maintenance or supply contract in Salt Lake City, Utah. Contact the soliciting agency for additional information.

Natural resources management including research and testing and germination and treatments and lab services for horticultural and agricultural and forestry and carpology and wildlife tracking including hardware. Environmental management including natural resources management and conservation strategy planning services and environmental testing and lab services including air quality. Professional engineering svcs incl civil engineering, landscape consulting, programming/master planning, architectural & engineering design/consulting, inspection certification svcs, testing/geotechnical, hazardous materials service, commissioning svcs. Health care provider specialist services including lab, medical imaging radiology, pharmacy, chiropractic, medical diagnostics testing, audiology and speech language pathology, physical therapy, occupational therapy, optometry. Health programs and services including research, disease prevention or control, sanitation, drug and alcohol testing, and substance abuse, child abuse, suicide, and domestic violence prevention. This Request for Proposals ("RFP"), having been determined to be the appropriate procurement method to provide the best value to the Conducting Procurement Unit, is designed to provide interested Offerors with sufficient basic information to submit proposals. This Request for Proposals ("RFP") is issued in accordance with the Utah Procurement Code and applicable administrative rules of the Utah Administrative Code. If any provision of this RFP conflicts with the Utah Procurement Code or Utah Administrative Code, then the Utah Procurement Code or Utah Administrative Code will take precedence. It is not intended to limit a proposal's content or exclude any relevant or essential data. Offerors are at liberty and are encouraged to expand upon the specifications to evidence service capability. The purpose of this RFP is to enter into a contract to provide: environmental chemistry analytical services for analyses of surface waters, ground water, municipal and industrial wastewater and effluent, drinking water, sediment and sludge samples, collected by the DEQ staff and Others. Analytical results will support a variety of environmental and analysis purposes including assessment, compliance, enforcement and monitoring. Analyses will be required for both short-term and long-term projects. Please see Attachment B for additional information. Analyses may include, but are not limited to the parameters and frequencies listed in Attachment C, and are subject to change at times. It is anticipated that this RFP will result in a single contract award to the responsive and responsible offeror with the highest score justified by the procurement code. Historically, the Division used the Utah Public Health Laboratory (UPHL) for the majority of this work. Beginning in FY22, the general fund appropriation for lab services was moved from UPHL to DEQ. DEQ must provide information to the legislature to help determine the best value. The two alternatives are continuing (in whole or in part) with the UPHL or private lab services. It is expected that DEQ provide cost comparison information at the interim committee meeting in October 2022. The State of Utah Division of Purchasing is the issuing procurement unit and the State of Utah Division of Water Quality is the conducting procurement unit for this RFP (referred to as "the State"). The reference number for this RFP is Solicitation #AS22-143. This solicitation number must be referred to on all proposals, correspondence, and documentation submitted to the State relating to this RFP. Pursuant to Utah Administrative Rule R33-12-502 the awarded contract(s) may be modified to incorporate new technology or technological upgrades associated with the procurement item being solicited, including new or upgraded: (i) systems; (ii) apparatuses; (iii) modules; (iv) components; and (v) other supplementary items. Further, a maintenance or service agreement associated with the procurement item under the resulting contract(s) may be modified to include any new technology or technological upgrades. Any contract modification incorporating new technology or technological upgrades will be specific to the procurement item being solicited and substantially within the scope of the original procurement or contract.