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The City of Charleston (City) is seeking an engineering Firm to provide plan review support services as part of the City's Stormwater Management Program to meet the Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) discharge permit requirements. The City of Charleston reviews construction activity applications (CAA) for compliance with the City's Stormwater Design Standards Manual (SWDSM) and the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SDHEC) National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Construction General Permit (CGP). The selected engineering Firm will provide engineering plan review support for the requirements of the SWDSM and CGP. The Consultant should have the ability to meet Minority & Women-Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) criteria established by the City of Charleston. Please contact the City Stormwater Director, Matthew Fountain, at fountainm@charleston-sc.gov with questions regarding the project. Please contact Ruth Jordan at 843-724-7434 or jordanr@charleston-sc.gov with questions regarding Minority & Women-Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) requirements. Statements of Qualifications will be received at the City of Charleston Stormwater Management, via e-mail to fountainm@charleston-sc.gov for the professional services for MS4 Plan Review Support Services. Through this Request for Qualifications (RFQ), the CITY will select the most qualified Consultant to provide engineering services per the Project Description above. A summary of the Consultant scope of services and proposed schedule are as follows. Each Consultant who wishes to be considered for selection to perform this scope of services shall submit to the CITY a concise description of: o Project Approach. The Consultant shall include a description of their management approach and technical approach for the proposed scope of services. A minimum of three (3) project examples involving stormwater plan design and/or stormwater plan review of similar size/complexity. Each project reference should include a short description of the scope of work, the type of work, the engineering approach, type(s) of hydrologic and hydraulic modeling used, and any exceptional successes or challenges encountered during the duration of the project. The Project is to provide stormwater management plan review of CAA submittals for compliance with the CITY's SWDSM and SCDHEC NPDES CGP. The selected firm will be provided pdf copies of permit submittals through an FTP site or similar service hosted by the selected firm. The CITY will participate in a brief virtual kickoff meeting for each review to provide context on the review and verify applicable regulations. The selected firm will then provide a minimum of 20 hours per week of engineering stormwater management plan review including digital review comments regarding compliance with all applicable sections of the SWDSM and CGP. At the completion of each project review, the selected firm will provide a Quality Assurance review of their work by a different employee than that producing the review comments. The review document will then be electronically returned to the CITY and the firm's reviewer will attend the City Technical Review Committee meeting to provide an overview of comments to the applicant and respond to questions from the applicant. A review typically takes between 4 and 30 hours to review depending on complexity and quality of the submittal and selected firms will generally have 2 weeks to complete an assigned review. Owner Rights: The CITY reserves the right to obtain financial data or other supplemental information concerning the submitting entities, if relevant. Consultants should prepare their Statement of Qualifications simply and economically, providing a straightforward and concise description of their abilities to provide the services described at the expected quality level. The CITY reserves the right to select the Statement of Qualifications deemed most advantageous and in the best interest of the CITY. March 7, 2024 All questions must be submitted to fountainm@charleston-sc.gov by close of business. The method of Contractor Selection has not been Determined at this time.