Bid_Cost_Form_5_2025.docx

This is a cost proposal form for Santa Rosa County, Florida's Water and Wastewater Continuing Engineering Services procurement. The bid cost form solicits proposals from multi-disciplined professional engineering firms to provide comprehensive continuing engineering services including stormwater engineering, environmental planning, stream monitoring, asset management, inspections, ecological restoration, water quality monitoring, and construction administration. The county seeks to establish multiple task order contracts with qualified firms. Proposals were due December 22, 2025, at 10:00 am through the Santa Rosa County Procurement Portal, with questions to be submitted by December 8, 2025. The contract will run for a base period with optional renewal terms, with each awarded firm receiving a total contract ceiling of $3,000,000 and individual task orders not exceeding $250,000. Task orders will be assigned based on price, experience, capacity, key personnel, availability, approach, and past performance.

The cost proposal form establishes hourly rates for various professional staff categories including principals/directors, project managers, civil engineers, landscape architects, environmental scientists, arborists, soils scientists, graphic designers, surveyors, geotechnical engineers, project inspectors, GIS technicians, CAD technicians, and administrative personnel, with rates ranging from $10 to $50 per hour. Additional line items cover laboratory analysis services, field supplies, permits, copying and printing services at specified unit prices, and mileage reimbursement at the current GSA privately owned vehicle rate. Items such as geotechnical engineering, soil boring, test pits, and various laboratory analyses are noted as negotiable for each task order. Proposing firms must demonstrate at least ten years of experience in NPDES stormwater permit services and employ registered Professional Engineers licensed in Florida, with a Senior Environmental Scientist possessing minimum seven years of Maryland NPDES municipal stormwater permit experience. The estimated total procurement value is $15,000,000 to be funded through county sources across fiscal years 2026-2031, contingent upon appropriation and encumbrance of fiscal funding, with services commencing only after receipt of written Notice-to-Proceed and Purchase Order.