The Engineering Services Division of the Department of General Services (GS) is soliciting Statements of Qualifications (SOQ) from qualified engineering companies (Company) to provide the following three main components for this solicitation and interested parties may choose to be considered for any or all:
• Embedded Consultant Project Management staff: Primary responsibilities include reviewing project deliverables and the overall project management duties as normally performed by city Project Managers. The consultant must certify designs as a North Carolina Professional Engineer or defer this to the project engineer. QA/QC staff should have experience in designing and preparing construction plans for transportation projects and will oversee the work of Project Engineers and/or consultant designers on assigned projects and be directly responsible for ensuring projects are delivered on-schedule and within the allocated budget.
• Embedded Project Engineer staff: Primarily responsible for completing designs for an average of 4-10 projects per year, depending on size and scope. They will be the engineer of record for designs of varying sizes and will report directly to city or consultant Project Management Staff.
• Miscellaneous Planning and Design Services: The City of Charlotte is seeking assistance from qualified Transportation Consulting firms to provide transportation planning and transportation engineering on “on-call” basis. The on-call contract will provide a flexible and effective way for the city to respond to recurring consultant service needs covering a range of multi-dimensional transportation engineering and planning tasks. The flexible on-call consultant service contracts with qualified transportation firms will help meet the needs of the city. Each firm selected for an on-call contract will be required to enter into a master agreement with the city. This master agreement will fulfill the consultant solicitation and selection process for the work to be performed under the on-call contract.
The purpose of these services is to inspect each facility roof and exterior walls by qualified personnel as scheduled by client. This consists of all elements of roofs and building envelopes. No invasive roof openings are anticipated as part of these services. Additionally, perform water tests as scheduled by the client at Skylights, Windows, Exterior Walls or Through-Wall Flashings utilizing a spray rack or standard garden hoses and portable communication.
The selected firms will use HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS, SWMM, and/or a hydraulic grade line closed system computer model, or an approved alternative method. All methods will be in accordance with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Storm Water Design Manual. The City’s then current AutoCAD standards will be used for production of all plans and profiles.
Work will be issued via written Task Orders, which will specify the requirements of the various projects. Multiple Task Orders may be issued for each project. Multiple task orders may be issued at once. The City of Charlotte reserves the right, upon successful completion of a given Task Order, to issue subsequent Task Orders to the same or a different Company.
The below list provides a general list of the tasks required. This is not intended to be all-inclusive, nor is it guaranteed that all of the below tasks will be utilized. A more defined Scope of Work will be developed during negotiation with the selected company.
Charlotte Water (CLTWater) is soliciting Statements of Qualifications (SOQ) from qualified engineering firms (ENGINEER) for Hydraulic Modeling and Baseline Capacity Analysis Update Services. These services are to be comprised of hydraulic modeling, and determining new baseline capacities for select sewer basins, for use in the Capacity Assurance Program, as needed, for sewer systems located throughout the Charlotte Water service area. These services will also include studies to evaluate the wastewater collection system sub-basin for existing and future capacity needs. Hydrologic and hydraulic analyses will be performed for designated sewer basins using Charlotte Water’s current Infoworks collection system base model.
Charlotte Water is soliciting Statement of Qualifications from a qualified engineering firm to provide future service line inspections (meter box inspections or potholing), as well as service line data entry for predictive modeling.
This selection will consist of two separate types of work. The general scope of work for each generally includes:
Urban Design Services
The urban design services may be used for multiple projects and will be a task order-based agreement. This selected consultant(s) will support the city by providing services that encompass planning, economic development urban design, historic preservation and placemaking. Projects will range in scope and size.
Grant Preparation Services
The city has applied for various state and federal grants (SS4A, RAISE, etc.) and is looking for consultant(s) to provide assistance with grant preparation services for future applications. The selected consultants will be expected to lead the effort in coordination with city staff to provide all services needed to apply for various state and federal grants. It is anticipated that multiple consultants may be selected for this task.
This will be an RFQ for professional engineering services including final design, of grading, drainage, electrical, pavement, construction administration, surveying, materials testing services. The project will expand the exiting main terminal ramp to the south, in order to provide dual taxi lanes and create the space for the ultimate expansion of Concourse C.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Storm Water Services (CMSWS) is soliciting Statements of Qualifications (SOQ) from qualified engineering companies (Company or Proposer) to provide Professional Engineering Services to both review existing portions of, as well as update, the existing Charlotte-Mecklenburg Storm Water Design Manual (Project).
The intent of the manual review and revision is to not duplicate the old manual based on an Engineering Handbook perspective, but the context should be more of a supporting guide for following CMSWS local engineering specific details, practices and implementation of drainage design.
Charlotte Water is soliciting Statement of Qualifications from a qualified engineering firm to conduct a comprehensive environmental impact assessment and prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) in accordance with applicable regulations and guidelines. The scope of work shall include, but is not limited to, identifying scope alternatives that would provide for long term water supply to the Rocky River portion of the CLTW service area. Also, identifying potential environmental impacts, including secondary and cumulative impacts associated with the proposed IBT modification and identified alternatives. The selected Firm shall have relevant experience in developing Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) within the realm of water resources, supply, and use. Preferably the Firm will have experience in development of EIS related specifically to interbasin transfer of water related to the regulatory requirements of North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ).
