Santa Clara Valley Water District PlanetBids #VW0738

On-call cultural, paleontological, and tribal cultural resources consulting

Santa Clara Valley Water District is seeking on-call cultural, paleontological, and tribal cultural resource consulting for Stream Maintenance Program projects. - Government buyer: Santa Clara Valley Water District (Valley Water), Consultant Contracts Services Unit #820. The RFP identifies the Office of REDI (Resiliency, Engagement, Development Initiatives) as an agency-wide initiative; the specific contracting office is not stated. - Requested services: As-needed resource assessment, records and sensitivity reviews, field surveys and evaluations, paleontological support, tribal consultation support, monitoring, inadvertent-discovery response, mitigation and treatment planning, reporting, GIS, training, and closeout. Work is authorized through task orders; no minimum amount of work is guaranteed. - Agreement and value: Anticipated five-year agreement with an estimated $500,000 not-to-exceed amount. No option years are stated. - Notable requirements: Firms must have relevant experience and appropriately qualified staff, including experience identifying cultural and paleontological resources, coordinating with California Native American tribes, and responding to inadvertent discoveries and stop-work situations. Work must comply with applicable requirements, including the National Historic Preservation Act and Section 106, and produce technically defensible deliverables suitable for agency submission when requested. - OEMs and products: No OEMs, manufactured products, product quantities, or product part numbers are specified. RFP No. VW0738 identifies the requested consulting effort. - Firms named in the notice: AECOM Technical Services, Inc.; BKF Engineers; Dudek; ECORP Consulting, Inc.; Environmental Science Associates; Floral Park Consulting LLC; GEI Consultants, Inc.; HELIX Environmental Planning; Kearns & West; Kleinfelder, Inc.; Pacific Legacy, Inc.; S2SERM, A Verdantas Company; and Soar Environmental Consulting, Inc. - Proposal-related attachment requirements: A cost proposal is to provide consultant and subconsultant rates, overhead, profit, burdened labor rates, and estimated other direct costs. The checklist also identifies technical and cost proposal submittals, including personnel and subconsultant information, references, declarations, a preliminary schedule, and a W-9.

Description

Santa Clara Valley Water District seeks proposals from qualified firms to provide on-call cultural resource, paleontological resource, and tribal cultural resource assessment, investigation, compliance, monitoring, and consultation-support services for Stream Maintenance Program projects. Work may include desktop reviews, field investigations, consultation support, monitoring, and reporting, performed as needed through authorized task orders. Valley Water anticipates a five-year agreement with an estimated not-to-exceed total amount of $500,000, with no guaranteed amount of work. Minimum qualifications include at least five years of relevant experience and knowledge of applicable regulations, including the National Historic Preservation Act and Section 106 requirements.

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