RFQ - Water Reclamation Facility On-call Engineering Services

Request for Qualifications (RFQ)
WATER RECLAMATION FACILITY ON-CALL ENGINEERING SERVICES


NOTICE IS HEREBY given that the City of Bozeman (Owner) is seeking qualifications from firms to provide professional engineering services necessary to support the operation and maintenance of the City’s Water Reclamation Facility.  Engineering services will be requested on an on-call or task order basis and could include a wide variety of items including, but not limited to: design, equipment selection, bidding, construction administration, water quality monitoring and analysis, process troubleshooting and optimization, industrial automation and controls, and discharge permit compliance.  Engineering firms responding to this RFQ must demonstrate a familiarity and depth of knowledge with advanced wastewater treatment and biological nutrient removal processes, and exhibit a breadth of experience across relevant engineering disciplines.  The selected engineering firm will be

expected to mobilize quickly to provide engineering services in a timely fashion. 
Copies of the Request for Qualifications are available on the City’s website at
https://weblink.bozeman.net/WebLink/DocView.aspx?id=239976&dbid=0&repo=BOZEMAN
All proposals must be provided as a single, searchable PDF document file and be submitted digitally as an email attachment to the RFQ Recipient email address below. Respondents are advised that Recipient’s email attachment size limit is 25MB and that only one PDF file will be allowed per response. The subject line of the transmittal email shall clearly identify the RFQ title, company name and due date/time. File sizes greater than 25MB in size may be uploaded to bzncloud.bozeman.net upon special arrangement of the Recipient; however, it is the respondent’s sole responsibility to ensure the file upload is completed, and that the Recipient is separately notified via email of same, prior to the given deadline.
Deliver RFQ responses via email to the City Clerk by
 September 15, 2021 at 3:00PM MST. It is the sole responsibility of the proposing party to ensure that proposals are received prior to the closing time as late submittals will not be accepted and will be returned unopened.
 
The email address for submission is: agenda@bozeman.net
 
NON-DISCRIMINATION AND EQUAL PAY
The City of Bozeman is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Discrimination in the performance of any agreement awarded under this RFQ on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, age, marital status, national origin, or actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity or disability is prohibited. This prohibition shall apply to the hiring and treatment of the awarded entity’s employees and to all subcontracts.
As such, each entity submitting under this notice shall include a provision wherein the submitting entity, or entities, affirms in writing it will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, age, marital status, national origin, or because of actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity or disability and which also recognizes the eventual contract will contain a provision prohibiting discrimination as described above and that this prohibition on discrimination shall apply to the hiring and treatment of the submitting entity’s employees and to all subcontracts.
In addition, pursuant to
City Commission Resolution 5169, the entity awarded a contract under this RFQ and any subcontractors must abide by the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and Section 39-3-104, MCA (the Montana Equal Pay Act), and affirm it will abide by the above and that it has visited the State of Montana Equal Pay for Equal Work “best practices” website,
https://wayback.archive-it.org/499/20210701223409/https:/equalpay.mt.gov/, or equivalent “best practices publication and has read the material.
 
Failure to comply with the above may be cause for the City to deem the submittal non-responsive.
 
Any administrative questions regarding submittal procedures should be directed to: Mike Maas, City Clerk (406) 582-2321,
agenda@bozeman.net.
 
Questions relating to the RFQ should be directed to: Griffin Nielsen, Engineer II, (406) 582-2279,
gnielsen@bozeman.net.
 
DATED at Bozeman, Montana, this August 22, 2021. 
 
Mike Maas
City Clerk
City of Bozeman
 
For publication on:
Sunday, August 22, 2021
Sunday, September 5, 2021