The Parish of Jefferson authorized by Resolution No. 140877, is hereby soliciting Statements of Qualifications (Jefferson Parish Technical Evaluation Committee (TEC) Professional Services Questionnaire) for additional persons or firms interested in being placed on a Supplemental List to provide routine engineering services for Water Projects in Jefferson Parish. Routine engineering services are for contracts where the total engineering fee, exclusive of resident inspection services, will not exceed $500,000.00 per assignment. Firms deemed qualified for this work shall be eligible for award of routine water contracts for the remainder of the two-year period, which began on June 29, 2022, and who are not one of the persons or firms approved by Resolution No. 139982, dated June 29, 2022. The following criteria will be used to evaluate the statement of the firms submitting: 1) Professional training and experience in relation to the type of work required for the routine engineering services - 35 points 2) Capacity for timely completion of newly assigned work, considering the factors of type of routine engineering task, current unfinished workload, and person or firm's available professional and support personnel - 20 points 3) Location of the principal office - 15 points (Preference shall be given to persons or firms as follows: (A) Jefferson Parish, including municipalities located within Jefferson Parish (15 Points); (B) Neighboring Parishes of the Greater New Orleans Metropolitan Region, which includes Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles and St. Tammany Parishes (12 Points); (C) Parishes other than the foregoing (10 Points); (D) Outside the State of Louisiana (6 Points). 4) Adversarial legal proceedings between the Parish and the person or firm performing professional services, in which the Parish prevailed or any ongoing adversarial legal proceedings between the Parish and the person or firm performing professional services excluding those instances or cases where the person or firm was added as an indispensable party, or where the person or firm participated in or assisted the public entity in prosecution of its claim - 15 points (In the event that the person or firm fails to provide accurate and detailed information regarding legal proceedings with the Parish, including the absence of legal proceedings, the person or firm shall be deemed unresponsive with regard to this category, and zero (0) points shall be awarded.) 5) Prior successful completion of projects of the type and nature of routine engineering services, as defined, for which firm has provided verifiable references - 15 points 6) Size of firm, considering the number of professional and support personnel required to perform the type of routine engineering tasks, including project evaluation, project design, drafting of technical plans, development of technical specifications and construction administration - 10 points 7) Past Performance by person or firm on Parish contracts - 10 points (Assertions of fault by a person or firm, which shall include time delays, cost over-runs, and or design inadequacies in prior work completed for the Parish shall be evidenced by substantiating documentation provided by the Director of Public Works for the requesting department or the Director of Engineering and received by the Chairman of the Evaluation Committee a minimum of two (2) weeks prior to the scheduled date of the Technical Evaluation Committee Meeting.). The firms submitting a Statement of Qualifications (Jefferson Parish TEC Professional Services Questionnaire) must identify all sub-consultant firms which they expect to use to provide professional services, and submit a Statement of Qualifications (Jefferson Parish TEC Professional Services Questionnaire) for each sub-consultant firm. (Refer to Jefferson Parish Code of Ordinances, Section 2-928) Please obtain the latest questionnaire form by calling the Purchasing Department by telephone at (504) 364-2678 or via the Jefferson Parish website electronically No Submittals will be accepted after the deadline. Affidavits are not required to be submitted with the Statement ofQualifications, but shall be submitted prior to contract approval. The method of contractor selection has not been determined at this time.
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