The City of Albany is located adjacent to the San Francisco Bay, bounded by the communities of El Cerrito to the north, Berkeley to the south and east, and Kensington to the northeast. The City can be divided into five watersheds extending into the Berkeley Hills and draining into the San Francisco Bay. Most of the City's storm drain system was built in the 1920's and 1930's in conjunction with the development of the residential neighborhoods. The drainage system consists of approximately 12 miles of storm drain pipeline and 2.5 miles of culverts. During the development of Albany through the 1950's, the city's creeks were placed in culverts, buried, and built over, resulting in the separation of the waterways from wildlife and the restriction of access to the drainage infrastructure. The purpose of this RFP is to solicit proposals from qualified professionals with experience in municipal water resources planning and stormwater engineering to assist the City in developing an updated Watershed Management Plan. The Plan will serve as the primary planning and management tool for the City's creeks, waterways, and stormwater assets. The goals of the development of the Watershed Management Plan include the following: Provide an updated inventory of the City's stormwater system assets in GIS format, including information on location, size, materials, and depths. Provide a point-in-time condition assessment of the components of the stormwater system, including identification of assets in need of repair. Utilizing engineering and cost analysis best practices, develop an updated Storm Drain Master Plan identifying storm drain improvement projects required to meet the City's drainage needs and prioritizing improvement projects for the City to implement on a five-year timeline and beyond, as well as proposing several budget scenarios for implementing the proposed drainage improvements. Identify project opportunities for watershed restoration, waterway quality improvement, urban runoff reduction, green infrastructure implementation, and reuse of urban stormwater as a resource. The specific tasks and deliverables are described below. Tasks and corresponding deliverables outlined in this RFP may be modified based upon professional recommendations from the qualified proposer's previous experience with similar projects. Deliverables and Schedule: Spring/Summer 2024 Notice to Proceed April 22, 2024 Should discrepancies or omissions be found in this solicitation or should there be a need to clarify this solicitation, questions regarding this RFP must be put in writing and received by the City contact person no later than Monday, February 26, 2024 at 5:00 PM. All questions should be directed to David Lam at DLam@albanyca.org with a copy to Allison Carrillo at ACarrillo@albanyca.org. Do not contact any other staff members or elected officials of the City of Albany. The City reserves the right to reject any and all proposals for any reason. The City may waive informalities or irregularities in the proposal received where such is merely a matter of form and not substance, and the correction or waiver thereof is deemed by the City not prejudicial to other proposals. Any alteration, omission, addition, variance, or limitation of, from or to a proposal may be sufficient grounds for non-acceptance of the proposal, at the sole discretion of the City. The method of Contractor Selection has not been Determined at this time
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