Seattle Park District Opengov #FAS 2026-037

Seattle seeks two on-call structural and seismic/disaster engineering firms

The City of Seattle is seeking two firms for on-call structural and seismic/disaster engineering support for City facilities and capital projects. - Government buyer: City of Seattle, Finance and Administrative Services (FAS), Capital Development (FAS/CD). - Requested services: Structural studies and assessments, monitoring, confidence testing, calculations, seismic evaluations, and fall-protection design and review. Services also include options analysis, recommendations, reports, feasibility work, and rough-order-of-magnitude cost estimates. - As needed, consultants may prepare construction documents stamped by a licensed engineer, provide plan review and permitting, and perform construction administration and structural inspections for new and existing City facilities. - Expert witness capability is identified as part of the scope. - Quantity and products: The City intends to select two firms. No products, product quantities, or part numbers are specified. - Requirements: Firms must be licensed to practice in Washington State and Seattle and demonstrate relevant experience assessing facilities and applying current codes. Responses should include three relevant project examples and three references. - CAD deliverables: Drafting must comply with the City's FAS CAD standards, be compatible with AutoCAD, follow AIA/National CAD Standard layer conventions, and be submitted in DWG and PDF formats. Drawing accuracy, file organization, title blocks, and record drawings are addressed in the standards. - OEMs and vendors: No engineering firms, resellers, or product manufacturers are named. AutoCAD is specified as a compatibility requirement; the documents do not name its manufacturer. - Contract structure: Work is on-call and authorized by individual assignments; the City does not guarantee any assignments. Multiple or partial selections may be made.

Description

The City of Seattle seeks qualifications from firms to provide on-call structural and seismic/disaster engineering services for Finance and Administrative Services Capital Development projects. Work is performed as needed across planning, design, procurement, and construction, and may include structural assessments, analysis and design, seismic evaluations, fall-protection design and review, cost estimates, construction documents, permitting, construction administration, and inspections. The solicitation aims to establish a pool of two structural engineering firms; work assignments will be negotiated individually and authorized by a Letter of Authorization, with no guaranteed workload. Each contract has an initial one-year term and may be renewed for up to four additional one-year terms.

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