Title
Water Resources and Development Planning Consulting Services - QVL (Ordinance S-47213)
Description
Request to authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to enter into separate agreements with the 10 vendors listed below, to provide consulting services for the Water Services Department. Further request to authorize execution of amendments to the agreements as necessary within the Council approved expenditure authority as provided below, and for the City Controller to disburse all funds related to this item. The total value of the agreements will not exceed $1 million.
Report
Summary
The purpose of the agreements is to provide qualified firms or individuals that will be placed on a Qualified Vendors List (QVL) to provide various studies and research as needed for specific areas of expertise which include: water and wastewater infrastructure design, construction, rehabilitation, replacement and operational costs; water and wastewater customer profiles, water demand management and characteristics, and economic and financial analysis associated with provision of water and wastewater services; monitoring and modeling of water and wastewater flows at site, subdivision, neighborhood, basin and regional levels; water supply options and associated costs, water shortage and risk analysis, and research associated with climate change impacts and other supply threats and opportunities.
Procurement Information
The selection was made using a Request for Qualifications procurement process in accordance with City of Phoenix Administrative Regulation 3.10.
There were 13 offers received by the Water Services Department's Procurement Division on Oct. 16, 2020. The offers were evaluated by a committee which determined that the following 10 offers listed below met the City's minimum qualifications criteria and recommends that the offers be accepted as responsive and responsible offers that are most advantageous to the City:
Selected Offers
1. Carollo Engineers, Inc.
2. Entellus, Inc.
3. Hazen and Sawyer, PC
4. Keen Independent Research, LLC
5. Kimley Horn & Associates, Inc.
6. LRE Water
7. Raftelis Financial Consultants, Inc.
8. Rider Levett Bucnall, LTD
9. WestWater Research LLC
10. Westwood Professional Services, Inc
Contract Term
The term of each agreement is five years effective Feb. 1, 2021.
Financial Impact
The agreement values of the ten contracts will not exceed a total aggregate value of $1 million.
Funding is available in the Water Services Department's Operating Budget.
Department
Responsible Department
This item is submitted by Deputy City Manager Karen Peters and the Water Services Department.