REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS FOR

PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING REPORT

NORTHERN REGIONAL PUMP STATION AND FORCE MAIN

FOR THE CAPE FEAR PUBLIC UTILITY AUTHORITY

WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA

GENERAL

The Cape Fear Public Utility Authority (CFPUA) is seeking an engineering firm experienced

with sewer planning, modeling, design and estimating of sewer system expansions into unserved

areas. The project is to serve the northern New Hanover County by significantly increasing

sewer conveyance capacity. The project consists of a major regional pump station in the general

vicinity of Kerr Avenue and College Road with a large diameter sewer force main that

discharges at the Northside Wastewater Treatment Plant. This infrastructure is identified as the

Kerr RPS and 21,565 LF of 24-inch sewer force main on the attached sketch entitled “Northern

NHC Sewer Planning to Increase Availability.”

Sewer design experience shall include design and modeling of manifolded connection pressure

force mains. Experience with design of systems that accommodate uncertain growth rates by

phased construction is preferred.

The deliverable will be a Preliminary Engineering Report and the selected firm may not

ultimately design any of the infrastructure indicated in the report. Design and construction

services will be solicited under a new Request for Qualifications. The resulting design and

construction project may be federally funded with time and conditional constraints defined by

American Rescue Plan Act or other legislation.

The preliminary engineering report (PER) will:

1. Evaluate and size the proposed pump station and force main within the context of

current and projected growth rates due to infrastructure investment in Northern

New Hanover County.

2. Provide a recommended location and wet well depth for the pump station to

received gravity flow from nearby unsewered land and total pumping capacity

from existing and future force mains discharging to the pump station.

3. Consideration and recommendations for manifolding existing and future force

mains into a new large diameter force main planned in this project.

4. Consideration and recommendations that promote system resiliency.

5. Wastewater modeling and master planning as necessary.

6. Recommend a preferred alternative to include the force main route and

consideration of incremental build-out construction phasing scenarios.

7. Provide detailed cost estimates for phased and total build-out construction

scenarios.

8. Provide design, permitting and construction durations for each identified phase in

the preferred alternative. Include considerations for design-build delivery

methods.

9. Support due diligence land and easement acquisition activities.

SUBMISSION OF QUALIFICATIONS STATEMENT

Consulting engineering firms are invited to submit a Statement of Qualification to the CFPUA to

be received no later than 2:00 PM on December 8, 2021. Submittals received after this deadline

will not be considered.

CFPUA will address questions regarding the RFQ until 2:00 PM on December 1, 2021.

Questions submitted after this time will not addressed. Questions concerning this advertisement

should be directed to Julia Faircloth, Procurement Manager, Cape Fear Public Utility Authority,

at bids@cfpua.org.

SOQ’s shall be limited to 25-pages or less, excluding cover page, table of contents, tabs, resumes

and appendices.

Firms shall submit their statement of qualifications for consideration in .pdf format to

bids@cfpua.org. Maximum file size for .pdf submission is 25MB. A reply will be sent to the

email address submitting the statement of qualifications to confirm receipt. It is the submitting

firms’ responsibility to confirm that CFPUA has received statement of qualifications via email. If

email reply is not received from bids@cfpua.org, please call 910-332-6472 or 910-332-6589

before deadline for submission.

Submitted information shall comply with N.C.G.S. 143-64.31 through 64.34 (aka Mini Brooks

Act).

Firms submitting Qualifications are encouraged to carefully check them for conformance to the

requirements stated herein. Qualifications that do not meet ALL of the below listed requirements

will be disqualified. No exception will be granted.

EVALUATION

Firms submitting Qualifications to perform the Preliminary Engineering Report for the Northern

Regional Pump Station and Force Main will be evaluated based upon the firm’s experience,

proposed personnel experience, personnel knowledge and familiarity with projects in the typical

scope of work. This scope is defined in the General section of this Request for Qualifications, by

demonstration with previous project experience and references.

SCHEDULE

Final Preliminary Engineering Report deliverable is due on June 1, 2022, with draft version

deliverable dates to be negotiated during scoping.

REQUIREMENTS

Qualifying Statements shall include:

1. Firm name, address, telephone number, fax number, email address, and contact

person(s).

2. Year in which the firm was established and any former names under which the

firm operated.

3. Qualifications and experience of personnel who would be providing planning,

modeling and design services for the project(s) by providing:

a. A list of planning, modeling and design projects demonstrating

experience/understanding of the experience described in the General

section above. Project information shall include:

i. a summary of the scope of work and deliverables,

ii. the owner of the project, and

iii. the name, number and email of a reference for the project.

The following criteria will be deemed necessary for selection:

• The firm must meet the following insurance requirements. Workers

Compensation may be waived if firm has no employees.

• General Liability $1,000,000 per occurrence/$2,000,000 aggregate.

Authority must be additional insured and endorsement required.

• Workers Compensation $500,000/$500,000/$500,000. Waiver of

Subrogation against the Authority and endorsement required.

• Auto Liability Insurance $1,000,000 per occurrence combined single

limits applicable to claims due to bodily injury and/or property damage.

Authority must be additional insured and endorsement required.

• Professional Liability not less than $2,000,000 per loss.

Any firm wishing to be considered must be properly registered with the Office of the Secretary

of State.

NOTIFICATION

The selected firms will be notified by telephone and/or email.

The CFPUA reserves the right to reject any and all submissions.

Any questions concerning this advertisement should be directed to Julia Faircloth, Procurement

Manager, Cape Fear Public Utility Authority, at bids@cfpua.org by December 1, 2021 at

2:00pm.

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