CITY OF
GRANDVIEW
MUNICIPAL
ENGINEERING SERVICES
REQUEST FOR
QUALIFICATIONS
The City of Grandview is inviting Statements of Qualifications from firms
interested in providing professional municipal engineering services during the
2012-2014 calendar years. The City
will be selecting a consulting engineering firm for various municipal
engineering services for water, sewer, drainage, and street projects,
comprehensive plans, municipal planning, traffic studies, capital facilities
plans, rate studies, technical reports, cost estimates, environmental reviews,
plans, specifications, services during construction and funding applications.
Design, plans, specifications, and services during construction for
street and utility improvements may include those funded by TIB, STP, USDA,
CDBG, CERB, SIED, EDA, DWSRF, PWTF, and federal stimulus grant funds.
The City may submit grant application(s) to the Washington State Department of
Commerce Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program and/or applications to
other agencies/programs for funding to complete a study and/or construction
project(s). Should CDBG grant funds
be secured, cost plus percentage of construction cost consultant agreements will
not be allowed. A number of state
and federal equal opportunity and affirmative action requirements will apply to
the consultant agreement.
Statements of Qualifications shall be limited to 30 pages and should include
relevant experience in similar work, qualifications of key personnel,
familiarity with the City of Grandview and/or experience with municipalities of
similar size, experience with state and federal funding programs including the
CDBG program, previous performance on public projects, and references. Ten (10)
copies of the Statement of Qualifications shall be submitted.
The City’s selection of a consultant for these engineering services will be made
from the Statement of Qualifications received at City Hall by 5:00 p.m. on
Friday, October 14, 2011. Questions
regarding these services and Statement of Qualifications should be directed to
Cus Arteaga, City Administrator/Public Works Director, City of Grandview, 207
West Second Street, Grandview, WA 98930.
Phone: 509-882-9211. The most highly rated firm will be selected for
negotiation of a professional services contract. Interviews may be held at the
City’s discretion.
The City, in accordance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat.
252, 42 U.S.C. 2000d to 2000d-4 and Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations,
Department of Transportation, Subtitle A, Office of the Secretary, Part 21,
Nondiscrimination in Federally-assisted programs of the Department of
Transportation issued pursuant to such Act, hereby notifies all consultants that
it will affirmatively ensure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this
advertisement, disadvantaged business enterprises as defined at 49 CFR Part 23
will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation
and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, national
origin, or sex in consideration for an award.
The City of Grandview is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
Qualified women and minority consultants are encouraged to respond.
Publish:
Grandview Herald, September 14 & 21, 2011
Yakima Herald, September 18 & 25, 2011
Tri City Herald, September 18 & 25, 2011