North Carolina Orange County Civic Plus #367-OC5490

Orange County on-call solid-waste engineering and environmental consulting

Orange County, North Carolina, is seeking on-call engineering and environmental consulting support for its Solid Waste Management Department. - Government buyer: Orange County, North Carolina; Solid Waste Management Department; Finance and Administrative Services Department, Purchasing Division. - Scope: As-needed general engineering and environmental services for work beyond department capacity. Work is expected to focus primarily on general engineering, with task-specific strategic planning possible. - Potential services: Prepare designs, drawings, calculations, estimates, assessments, and bidding documents; support public meetings, procurement scopes, and proposal or bid reviews; and provide facility planning, design, and permitting for recycling, solid-waste, composting, debris-processing, and treatment facilities. - Landfill and environmental work: Landfill design and permitting; transfer-station and material-recovery-facility assessments and, when assigned, design and permitting; landfill gas and groundwater management; geotechnical engineering; PFAS monitoring and remediation; water-quality field sampling; and laboratory access for regulatory sampling. Methane monitoring is excluded. - Other capabilities: Regulatory compliance, waste-stream analysis and diversion, materials recovery, composting and organics, remediation, rate studies, risk assessment, cost estimating, emerging-technology assessments, and waste and recyclables collection. Firms need not provide every specialty but may need access to additional expertise through County-approved arrangements. - Named companies: Garrett and Moore is identified as the provider of current general engineering services; existing task orders are expected to continue to completion. Kessler Consulting is named in connection with a waste-characterization study. Neither is identified as an OEM for products being procured. - Notable planning information: A Solid Waste Master Plan update may occur during the contract, and the County anticipates updates to its Path to Zero Waste Plan. The County has no identified transfer-station site and does not currently plan to develop one. The annual change-order budget is approximately $250,000 and varies with capital-improvement projects; this is not stated as the total contract value. - Contract term: Five years, with two optional three-year extensions. No products, part numbers, or purchase quantities are specified.

Description

Orange County, North Carolina seeks multi-disciplined general engineering, solid waste, and environmental consulting services to support recurring needs beyond the capacity of its Solid Waste Management Department. Work may include preparing design and bidding documents, drawings, calculations, estimates and assessments, attending meetings, supporting procurement, and services related to recycling facilities, landfill permitting and design, transfer station assessments, PFAS monitoring and remediation, and other listed areas. Services will be assigned as needed, and firms need not cover every specialty but may access additional expertise through approved subcontracting or other arrangements. Electronic responses are due November 3, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. EST.

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