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The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (District) requests proposals from any prospective Proposer for the above captioned subject . The objective of the Request for Proposal (RFP) is to provide professional engineering services to complete preliminary engineering for a new biosolids management strategy for processing biosolids from the Stickney Water Reclamation Plant. The proposer will provide an evaluation of biosolids processing options, perform preliminary engineering for a processing facility, and prepare a design build-operate-maintain (DBOM) contract for the facility. The proposer shall also provide pre-award services for the DBOM contract, and supplemental services on an as-needed basis. The RFP is divided, for the purposes of bidding, into four tasks: Preliminary Design (Task 1), Contract Development (Task 2), Pre-Award Services (Task 3), and Supplemental Services (Task 4). A Proposal must include all four Tasks of the RFP or it will be considered non-responsive and rejected. The Proposer awarded this RFP shall be precluded from participating in the DBOM contract outside the bounds outlined herein. The estimated cost for this proposal is $1,500,000.00. A bid deposit is not required to submit a Proposal. The anticipated service period for Tasks 1 and 2 will begin upon the award of the purchase order and must be completed by March 31, 2026. The anticipated service period for Task 3 will begin upon the bid opening of the corresponding DBOM contract and shall continue through award of the DBOM contract. Task 4 services will take place on an as-needed basis and may take place during Task 1, Task 2, and/or Task 3 service periods. Funding of all RFP items is subject to the Board of Commissioners approval of the budget over the service periods. Professional Engineering Services for the Stickney Water Reclamation Plant Biosolids Management Strategy Bid Deposit: None There is no Bid Depository safe for this purpose. Further, the District assumes no liability or responsibility for the failure or inability of any Proposer to successfully download any and all contract documents, including but not limited to specifications, proposal forms and/or plans, as a result of any type of technological computer and/or software system failure or breakdown that restricts, prohibits or prevents successful downloading of any and all District contract documents by the Proposer, whether caused by the District or other parties, directly or indirectly. It is the policy of the District that Minority, Women, and Veteran-owned Business Enterprises shall have maximum practicable opportunity to participate in the performance of an agreement. The categories of services for this RFP that are used as basis for determining these goals are Engineering Consulting and Professional Engineering Services. The Affirmative Action Goals for this RFP are 20% Minority-owned Business Enterprises (MBE), 10% Women-owned Business Enterprises (WBE), and 3% Veteran-owned Business Enterprises (VBE). The Proposer agrees to use the District's online compliance monitoring system administered by the Diversity Section for payment and reporting purposes in order to fulfill the Affirmative Action requirements. The Proposer shall refer to Appendix A for the provisions of the District's Minority and Women's Business Requirements. The Proposer shall refer to Appendix V for the provisions of the Districts Veteran-owned Business Requirements. All Proposers shall conform to all the terms and conditions of the RFP as stated in this document. Failure to conform to the terms and conditions of the RFP will render the proposal non-responsive and ineligible for further consideration. A successful Proposer will be required to comply with all applicable Federal and State of Illinois Regulations. Proposers are to include with their proposal signed copies of any addenda, or acknowledge receipt of any addenda, if the District issued any addenda to this RFP. Failure to do so may be cause for the rejection of any proposal. RFP documents are available online, and any addenda issued for this RFP will be available online Addenda will also be emailed/faxed to each person receiving a set of such RFP documents and to such other prospective Proposers as shall have requested that they be furnished with a copy of the addenda. If any potential Proposer contemplating to submit a proposal is in doubt as to the true meaning of any part of the specifications or other RFP documents, such inquiry should be submitted online The District will provide an online response to such inquiries, as the District deems appropriate. Strings of appropriate questions and answers regarding the RFP documents will be available online on the District until the due date of the RFP submission. No questions will be accepted by telephone, fax, email, mail, or any other such form of delivery. The District will only respond to questions received online up to ONE WEEK prior to the date set to receive proposals. The District will not respond to questions received after this date. The District does not guarantee the timeliness of responses provided online, nor does the District guarantee that such responses will be provided in adequate time to affect the submission of proposals. The District shall provide responses online ONLY if the responses do not interpret or otherwise change the RFP documents. The Districts responses online are NOT official responses and, therefore, are not binding to the RFP documents. Any official interpretation or change to the RFP documents will be made only by addenda duly issued to all plan holders on record by the Director of Procurement and Materials Management. Failure on the part of a prospective Bidder to receive written interpretation prior to the time of the opening of bids will not be grounds for withdrawal of their proposal. Attendees are advised to bring a hard hat and appropriate footwear for an industrial type of facility and a current business card. Bidders are encouraged to give themselves enough time to clear security. Bidders are reminded that no questions will be taken during any site inspections. There will be a questions and answers session at the end of the meeting. Additionally, all Proposers must give their contact information to register prior to entering the Zoom Pre-Bid meeting. The contact person for the request for proposal is Edward Jankun, Senior Civil Engineer. Mr. Jankun will provide online responses to online inquiries through the District. The District reserves the right to accept any RFP or any part thereof or to reject any and all RFPs. The method of Contractor Selection has not been Determined at this time.