Water System Improvement Projects Request for Qualifications Engineering Services

1.1 General Information:

City of Mineral Wells, Texas (City) requests the submission of Statements of Qualifications (SOQ) with respect to possible loan and/or grant funding through the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) to provide for planning, acquisition, design, and construction management phase services associated with the design and construction of various water system improvement projects. This Request for Qualifications (RFQ) solicits information that will enable the City to determine the highest qualified Engineering Firm that may provide professional engineering services for the planning, acquisition, design and construction management of a project, or projects that may be funded through the TWDB.

1.2 Intent

The intent of the City is to hire an Engineering Firm to provide planning, acquisition, design, and construction management phase engineering services via a two-step procurement process with formal advertising. The City will evaluate all Respondent’s Statement of Qualifications in step one and may conduct interviews with short-listed Respondent’s, in step two. At the conclusion of either step one or step two of this process, the City will rank candidates by order of highest qualifications and first attempt to negotiate a fair and reasonable fixed price contract with the highest qualified Engineering Firm. If unable to negotiate a mutually acceptable contract, the City will terminate negotiations with the highest qualified Engineering Firm and begin negotiating with the next highest qualified candidate. If necessary, the City will repeat these steps until an acceptable contract is obtained. Complete procedures for procuring the Engineering Services are presented in Section 2.0 of this RFQ.

The City reserves the right to reject any or all qualification statements received in response to this public notice. The City reserves the right to short list respondents and base final selection rankings on personal interviews. The City reserves the right to conduct new project planning, acquisition, design, and construction management phase engineering services selection procedures for this or future projects.

To view and download the full RFQ see the link in Related Documents below.