CITY OF ALBUQUERQUE
NOTICE OF REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR

 CITYWIDE ON-CALL ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR HYDROLOGY, HYDRAULICS AND
STORM DRAINAGE WORK

PROJECT NO. 5001.07

PROPOSALS DUE:  WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Proposals from professional HYDROLOGY, HYDRAULICS AND STORM DRAINAGE ENGINEERING  firms or persons to provide professional services for the above project will be received until 3:00 p.m. on the date shown above, at the Selection Advisory Committee Office, Capital Implementation Program (CIP) Division Office, One Civic Plaza, 7th Floor, Room 7057, Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Government Center, Albuquerque, NM 87102.  No proposals will be accepted after the time specified.

Request for proposals online at http://www.cabq.gov/municipaldevelopment/architects-engineers-and-developers/cip-selection-advisory-committee

Project Description:   Hydrology, Hydraulics and Storm Drainage firms to provide on-call services for a variety of planning and design projects on a city-wide basis.  Required services include hydrology, hydraulics and storm drainage, DAR’S, studies and analyses, pre-design, design and construction phase services.

NOTE:  THIS WILL BE A THREE (3) YEAR CONTRACT.

No pre-submittal meeting will be held for this project.
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Estimated Compensation		$ 500,000.00

City Project Manager:			Shellie Eaton, PE, Telephone number (505)768-2774			

Department:				Engineering/Municipal Development					

Proposal Format:

Respondents shall provide six (6) copies of their proposal.  Interviews may be held from a “short list” of respondents determined by the Selection Advisory Committee.  Short listed respondents will be required to make a presentation to the Selection Advisory Committee addressing project related items selected by the Committee.  If interviews are not held, the proposal will be the basis for recommending firms or persons to the Mayor to provide professional services for the project.  The format for the proposal plus the point value of each category that will be evaluated by the Selection Advisory Committee shall be as follows:
                                                  			Points
   I.  General Information			 	  5
  II.  Project Team Members		   	 20
 III.  Respondent Experience		   	 35
 IV.  Technical Approach				 30
  V.  Cost Control				   5
 VI.  Quality and Content of Proposal	    	   5	
       (Reserved for Committee Use Only)

Proposals shall be bound and limited to a maximum of fifteen (15) pages (single sided) excluding the introductory letter, any applicable agreement and insurance certificates, the title page, the table of contents, dividers between categories, and the front and back cover/binder pages.  All other 8 ½” x 11” pages shall be numbered.  Any 17” x 11” pages shall be numbered as two pages. Respondents must also provide a disc of their proposal in PDF format. Drawings on 24” x 36” sheets shall be numbered as four pages.  Your proposal should be as clear and concise as you can make it and still provide the Selection Advisory Committee with information addressing the requirements in each of the first five categories stipulated above (you do not respond to Category VI).  Proposals longer than the specified page limitation will be rejected and will not be evaluated. . The individual signing the proposal on behalf of a legal entity shall be a registered New Mexico registered professional Engineer. By submitting a proposal for this project the respondent agrees to abide by all provisions of both the Accountability in Government Ordinance (Section 2-10-1 COA) and the Inspector General Ordinance (Section 2-17-1 COA).

If any significant text detailing any aspect of the current project, prior consultant projects or the consulting firm is found on any page not normally counted as part of the maximum page limitation, that page may be considered to be part of the respondent's proposal and may be counted as part of the maximum page limitation, as determined by the Administrator.

Selection of qualified professional firms and/or persons will be pursuant to the provisions of Section 14-7-2-1 et seq, of the Revised Ordinances of Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1994.  The Selection Advisory Committee meeting to determine recommended selections will be held at least two weeks after receipt of the proposals.  For exact time and place call the Capital Implementation Program Office at 768-3821 after September 12, 2018.

Anyone submitting a proposal in response to this notice must agree to enter into the Standard Agreement that applies to the project and to meet the insurance requirements described in that Agreement.  All proposals submitted will contain a completed Pay Equity Worksheet PE10-249 and shall contain a fully completed and executed “Agreement and Insurance Certification” form.  At least one copy of the respondent’s proposal must contain the required Agreement and Insurance Certification form containing an original notary seal.  Proposals not containing the fully executed “Agreement and Insurance Certification” form shall be non-responsive and shall not be considered for evaluation.  Copies of the Pay Equity Worksheet, the Standard Agreement that shall be used for the project and the “Agreement and Insurance Certification” form may be obtained from the Capital Implementation Program Office at the address given above.

For those projects which are federally funded, the selected firm and/or persons will be required to comply with the applicable federal requirements including those relating to Equal Opportunity in Employment.

Basic Services compensation for those firms and persons who are selected to provide services for the listed project will be negotiated in accordance with Section 14-7-1 et seq, of the Revised Ordinances of Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1994, entitled “Compensation for Services of Consulting Engineers, Architects and Landscape Architects.”

Responses received pursuant to this advertisement may constitute public records of the City of Albuquerque subject to disclosure to any interested party under the Inspection of Public Records Act (Section 14-2-1 through 14-2-3 N.M.S.A. (1978)).  A responding firm and/or person submitting a response believed to contain “trade secrets” within the meaning of Section 30-16-24 N.M.S.A. (1978) should clearly designate the response as such by printing the words “TRADE SECRET” on the top portion of the front cover of their response.  The responding firm and/or person may restrict distribution of their response to only those individuals involved in review and analysis of responses.  The City of Albuquerque will attempt to restrict distribution of a designated response as directed by the submitting party.

Signed:  _____________________________________
  Myrna Marquez,  Administrator
  Selection Advisory Committee
  Department of Municipal Development

To be published in the Albuquerque Journal on August 22 and August 29, 2018.