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The City seeks professional engineering services from a qualified and experienced consulting firm to serve as program manager (on an as-needed basis) for the City's Electric Vehicle, Energy Storage, and Solar Infrastructure Capital and/or Maintenance Improvement projects (CI or MI projects). Such services shall include but not be limited to: aiding the City's in-house team to design and prepare project construction contract documents including electrical and civil engineering; coordination with City engineering and sustainability staff; research/review existing conditions; development of scope of work; preparation of Requests for Proposals (RFPs) and construction bid packages; management of City retained professional consulting firms and contractors in regards to deliverables; setting and monitoring schedule and budget milestones; review of invoicing/progress pay estimates; design approach; work progress; and overall quality assurance and engineering for the City's electric vehicle, energy storage and solar projects. The consultant shall also prepare preliminary cost estimates, staff reports, task orders, contracts, agreements, and perform other tasks as needed to manage individual capital and/or maintenance projects and provide on-going engineering support to the City's operations and engineering staff. Reducing energy use and utilizing clean, renewable power are top priorities for the City of Thousand Oaks ("City"). Transportation and Buildings are the City's primary contributors to climate-warming greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in California. In June 2018, the City Council adopted a Sustainability Plan for Municipal Operations (SPMO), which established the foundation for efficient, environmentally friendly, fiscally responsible, and sustainably-minded City operations. The City's first-ever Climate and Environmental Action Plan (CEAP) was subsequently adopted in May 2024. The City is planning to design and construct several electric vehicle infrastructure projects, energy storage infrastructure projects, and solar power infrastructure projects to meet the goals of the SPMO and CEAP. The Public Works Department is seeking professional engineering services from a qualified and experienced engineering consulting firm to serve as a project and program manager (on an as-needed basis) to advance the City's electric vehicle, energy storage and solar power Capital Improvement projects. The City intends to award a 3-year program management contract, with a total not-to-exceed amount of $750,000 payable at the Consultant's hourly rates. The contract may be amended for one additional 2-year term. To avoid any possible conflicts of interest, the Consultant that is awarded this contract shall be precluded from participating in future RFPQs for the listed projects to be managed under this contract for the duration of this agreement. Background The City of Thousand Oaks ("City") is located in eastern Ventura County and consists of 56 square miles. The City population is approximately 127,000. The City is a general law city operating under the Council/Manager form of government. The City Council is comprised of five elected members, with one member serving as Mayor on an annual basis. On July 18, 2023, the City Council adopted an ordinance which will move the City to district-based elections starting in November 2024. Question Submission Deadline: December 9, 2024, 4:00pm. Questions and comments regarding this solicitation must be submitted in writing via the City's eProcurement Portal at online. Begin work March 2025. Unless otherwise specified herein, the Proposal is firm for a period of Ninety (90) days. The City of Thousand Oaks reserves the right to postpone the Submittal Deadline and opening of Proposal any time before the date and time announced in the Request for Proposal/Qualifications (RFP/Q) or subsequent addenda. City also reserves the right to waive non-substantial irregularities in any Proposal, to reject any or all Proposals, to reject or delete one part of a Proposal and accept the other, except to the extent that Proposals are qualified by specific limitations. The City reserves the right to reject the Proposal of any Proposer who previously failed to perform adequately for the City or any other governmental agency. The City expressly reserves the right to reject the Proposal of any Proposer who is in default on the payment of taxes, licenses or other monies due the City of Thousand Oaks.