The City is requesting Statements of Qualifications (SOQs) from engineering firms experienced with staff augmentation and capital improvement project engineering for all types of public works projects including roads, trails, utilities, or other general engineering projects with various types of State and Federal funding sources, to support City led efforts. The City will be contracting a variety of engineering firms to provide the services needed for projects, and to provide services when requested for additional projects, as needed. The City will establish a list of consultants pre-qualified for staff augmentation, design, construction management, and inspection services. SOQs received will be kept on file and considered valid for a three-year (3) period following the due date of the Request for Qualifications (RFQ). Projects will be assigned to firms from the appropriate list. There is no guarantee that a particular firm will be called upon to perform services during the life of the contract. The City of Watsonville Public Works & Utilities Department implements a capital improvement program with an average annual value around $20 Million. The department's engineering
division will have several projects which the City will need to engage a variety of engineering consulting firms to perform services including: staff augmentation, design, construction
management, and construction inspections. The City is requesting Statements of Qualifications (SOQs) from engineering firms experienced with staff augmentation and capital improvement project engineering for all types of public works projects including roads, trails, utilities, or other general engineering projects with various types of State and Federal funding sources, to support City led efforts. The City will be contracting with a variety of engineering firms to provide the services needed for projects, and to provide services when requested for additional projects, as needed. The City will establish a list of consultants pre-qualified for staff augmentation, design, construction management and inspection services. SOQs received will be kept on file and considered valid for a three-year (3) period following the due date of this Request for Qualifications (RFQ). Written questions may be submitted using the City's OpenGov Procurement portal until the deadline for questions before 5:00 pm on Friday, June 14, 2024. Projects will be assigned to firms from the appropriate list. There is no guarantee that a particular firm will be called upon to perform services during the life of the contract. Consultants may submit proposals for specific services or projects or in general. The proposals submitted do not need to include all services listed - only those for which the consultants wishesto provide services. Section 3.0 includes mandatory qualified services interest survey form that each respondent must include with their Statement of Qualifications submittal. The two-part survey allows the
responding consultant to select the type of engineering services for which they are qualified and interested in providing to the City both generally and specifically. The responses provided on the form will not be the determining factor of qualifications for a particular project or service, as the City will make the final determination for each project need. However, the survey form is intended to guide City staff in determining which firms to approach for proposals for various scopes of work over the RFQ's three year on-call term The pages attached here contain a list of projects from the City's Public Works and Utilities Department 5-Year Capital Improvement Plan (CIP). The list provides a representative list of
the projects for which consultant engineering services may be requested from the qualified on-call list. It is noted that consultants from the on-call list may be asked to propose on
projects or services not included on this list, and that the City reserves the right to select a consulted to perform some, none, or all of the services on one, several, or none of the
projects over the three-year RFQ term.
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