NOI 23-135 - Soil Sampling

The Corporation of the District of Saanich Notice of Intent to Direct AwardIssue Date: October 10, 2023 Overview:Notice is hereby given by The Corporation of the District of Saanich (the “District”) of its intent to direct award to Thurber Engineering for soil sampling, testing, characterizing, and reporting services to support various capital construction projects.Thurber Engineering was contracted directly as a pre-qualified Supplier in accordance with the District’s Qualified Supplier Roster RFSQ 02/21 to provide soil sampling, testing, characterizing, and reporting services to support various capital construction projects.The Supplier has the specific expertise and experience required to complete the work, which was initially estimated within the ability of Saanich to select any supplier as outlined within the Professional Consulting Services Qualified Supplier Roster program. The criticality of the work, and an unexpected complexity has been identified. The introduction of new

resources at this stage would cause work interruption, project disruption and result in substantial duplication of costs for the District. The District intends to continue to contract with Thurber to completion of the Deliverables.Consulting costs to complete the projects will exceed $75,000.00.Contact:The Notice of Intent to Direct Award is posted at BC Bid at www.bcbid.ca. If clarification is required or there are any issues with this Notice of Intent, email questions or concerns to the Manager of Purchasing Services to purchase@saanich.ca no later than 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time on October 19, 2023. Telephone queries and voice mail messages regarding questions will not be accepted and will not receive a response. Please indicate in the subject of your email: Notice of Intent # 23-135 Question Submission – Contaminated Soil Sampling Contract duration Refer to the description above for full details. Trade agreements Please refer to tender description or tender documents Contracting organization Organization Corporation of the District of Saanich Contracting authority Karen Tardif Email karen.tardif@saanich.ca