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Approval of Contract with Hazen and Sawyer for the Winrock Water Resource Recovery Plant
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BACKGROUND:
Winrock shopping center has been undergoing major renovations over the last several years and approached the Water Authority about developing a reuse project that would provide non-potable water for irrigation, landscaping and potential food crops. Winrock solicited and obtained funding of $ 2.1 million from the State Legislature to design and construct a water resource recovery plant that will be located adjacent to Winrock.
SUMMARY:
The Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority issued the Request for Proposals (RFP) P2020000001, Winrock On-Site Water Resource Recovery Plant to solicit proposals from qualified vendors to provide engineering design and consulting services for the project described above.
The RFP was posted on BidSync and advertised in the local newspaper. Eight (8) responses were submitted for evaluation. The Selection Advisory Committee reviewed, evaluated, and scored the responses in accordance with the evaluation criteria published in the RFP.
Based on the recommendations of the Selection Advisory Committee, the Executive Director recommends the award of a contract to Hazen and Sawyer, as they had the highest composite score, are qualified to perform the work, and meets the requirements of the RFP. The highest total composite score possible without preferences applied is 100. All scores listed are the combined average of all Committee members with applicable preferences applied. The respective scores are as follows:
Respondent Score
Hazen & Sawyer 89
NCS Engineers 76
Stantec 83
Tierra West 83
Smith Engineering Company 85
Huitt-Zollars, Inc. 85
Wilson & Co. 88
Carollo Engineers 88
This approval is intended to delegate signature authority to the Executive Director to enter into a contract with Hazen and Sawyer to provide engineer design and consulting services based on the Recommendation of Award of RFP P2020000001.
If approved by the Board, an Agreement will be executed between the Water Authority and Hazen to enable them to provide these services.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The fiscal impact is expected to be $ 300,000.00, excluding taxes, for the current fiscal year from grant funding received from the State Legislature. The Water Authority is administrating and managing the project. Approval of this item shall also serve as delegation of authority for the Executive Director to approve all future amendments to this purchase order, if any.