The City of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio ("Owner") is seeking qualifications statements in accordance with Ohio Revised Code Sections 153.65 through 153.73 from design professional firms to provide professional engineering services for improvements at the City's Water Treatment Plant located in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Cuyahoga Falls requests proposals to prepare preliminary and final design construction documents and all document preparation associated therewith, including application for the plan approval from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. The City owns and operates a municipal Water Treatment Plant (WTP) rated for a peak design flow of approximately 9 million gallons per day (mgd), a current average daily production of approximately 4.9 mgd and a current peak daily production of approximately 7.1 MGD. The WTP serves approximately 19,000 customers in the City of Cuyahoga Falls while providing bulk water sales to the neighboring communities of Munroe Falls and the Silver Lake. An ion exchange (IX) softening process is used at the WTP that softens water from eighteen (18) supply wells located in Waterworks Park adjacent to the Cuyahoga River. The plant uses pre-chlorination and sand filtration to oxidize and remove iron and manganese to below their secondary maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) prior to ion exchange (IX) softening to reduce hardness to desired levels. Water discharges from the IX process to a 2.2 MG capacity clearwell followed by high service pumping. The project includes the following improvements at the WTP:
o Demolition of the existing softening building and replacement with a new building and IX softening system.
o Replacement of the existing brine treatment (iron removal) system and additional brine storage.
o Upgrades and replacement of high service pumps and controls.
o Other related plant process pumping and piping improvements. Services required include: Preparation of a General Plan and Preliminary Engineering Report for submittal to Ohio EPA; surveying; geotechnical engineering; water treatment hydraulic and process design; architecture; structural engineering; mechanical, electrical & plumbing (MEP) design; contract document preparation; funding assistance; bidding services; and construction management and RPR services. These improvements will be in accordance with recommendations presented in the attached Preliminary Engineering Report The Project is to construct improvements to the Water Treatment Plant located at 2054 Munroe Falls Boulevard, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio 44221. The ion exchange (IX) process building and process infrastructure have exceeded their useful life and the City desires to replace them with a new softening building and IX process. The high service pumping system is also in need of repair and rehabilitation. The City has identified improvements to the WTP to upgrade the facilities. Please contact the Service Director at 330-971-8240 with any questions. The City retains the option of rejecting or accepting any Statement of Qualifications. Should a firm be selected and the City cannot negotiate a contract with the selected firm ranked best qualified, the City shall inform the firm in writing of the termination of negotiations and enter into negotiations with the firm ranked next best qualified. If negotiations again fail, the same procedure shall be followed with each next best-qualified firm selected until a contract is negotiated. However, the City retains the right to reject all SOQ's and initiate the process of obtaining SOQ's from qualified engineering firms at a later date. The method of Contractor Selection has not been determined at this time.
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