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I-70 Lift Station Electrical Improvements. SOQ-26-6151A

STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS: SOQ-26-5161A

TITLE: I-70 Lift Station Electrical Improvements

CLASS/ITEM: 91244, 91339, 91340, 91345,

91356, 91360, 91377, 91378, 91381, 95939

DATE: July 22, 2026

PRE-INVITATION NOTICE/STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS

SOLICITATION FOR A PRE-INVITATION TO BID, AND SUBMISSION OF A STATEMENT OF

QUALIFICATION.

I-70 LIFT STATION ELECTRICAL IMPROVEMENTS

Statements of Qualifications (SOQs) shall be submitted electronically through the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System (aka BidNet) no later than 4:00 p.m., local time, August 11, 2026. File size limit is 200GB. Please be advised that SOQs MUST be submitted through BidNet to be considered responsive. The SOQs shall be retained by the City and cannot be returned. If you need assistance with the registration or proposal upload process, you may call BidNet’s vendor support at 1-800-835-4603 or e-mail support@bidnet.com. No Late SOQ’s will be accepted.

THE CITY DOES NOT INTEND TO AWARD A CONTRACT ON THE BASIS OF THIS

SOLICITATION, OR TO OTHERWISE PAY FOR THE INFORMATION SOLICITED HEREIN.

THIS SOLICITATION IS ISSUED FOR THE PURPOSE OF: Selecting qualified prime contractors to bid on the I-70 LIFT STATION ELECTRICAL IMPROVEMENTS. These projects will be solicited as separate bids.

Note: Contractors intending on serving as subcontractors (unless noted otherwise herein), or material suppliers should not submit a Statement of Qualifications for this Pre-invitation/ Statement of Qualification process. This process is designed to pre-qualify Prime Contractors only. When the bids for these construction projects are solicited, only those pre-qualified Prime Contractors selected from this process will be solicited or allowed to participate.

However, any potential subcontractors and material suppliers shall be given full opportunity at that time to review, and/or purchase the project manuals as they deem appropriate.

The City of Aurora reserves the right to amend, by addendum or addenda to this SOQ, at any time and/or a multiple number of times prior to the date set for receipt of the submission of proposals. Addenda or addendums will only be posted and updated on the Rocky Mountain E- Purchasing System located at www.bidnetdirect.com/colorado. It shall be the responsibility of Prime Contractor to obtain all addenda from the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System. Parties obtaining bid information from other sources do so understanding that their information may be incomplete, inaccurate, or out of date and therefore wholly unreliable from a commercial perspective. Those registered for the paid bidding notification service shall be notified either by fax or email depending on the service that they have subscribed to. It shall be the responsibility of those registered for the no-charge service or the no notification service on the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System to monitor the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System for any addenda or addendums. Failure to do so may lead to reliance on incomplete, inaccurate, or mailto:support@bidnet.com http://www.bidnetdirect.com/colorado out-of-date information when submitting a SOQ subjecting such SOQ to automatic disqualification from consideration. If revisions are of such a magnitude to warrant, in the City of Aurora’s opinion, the postponement of the date for receipt of SOQ’s, an addendum will be issued announcing the new date.

The opinion of the probable cost for the Work is estimated to be between $2,400,000.00 and $2,700,000.00.

Questions Written questions regarding this SOQ solicitation shall be emailed to Heidi Ellis, Senior Procurement Agent at heellis@auroragov.org no later than July 29, 2026, by 2:00 pm (MT). It is preferred that all inquiries be sent with SOQ 26-6151A on the subject line. Inquiries received after the questions due date and time may not be addressed. Responses to written inquiries (if required) will be published in the form of an Addenda/Addendum and posted on BidNet.

Contacts During the Solicitation Process Any questions, comments or other communications shall be directed to the Senior Procurement Agent identified above in the Questions section.

No other contact shall be made regarding this SOQ solicitation with any other City of Aurora staff, City Council Members, Agents, Consultant, etc., during the SOQ solicitation process.

Failure to comply with this requirement may result in the offending Prime Contractor being removed from consideration.

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

Questions Due 2:00 p.m. July 29, 2026

SOQ Pre-Qualifications Submittal 4:00 p.m. August 11, 2026

Notice Provided to Selected Pre-Qualified Contractors Week of August 24, 2026

Issue Invitation to Bid for Approved Contractors September 2026

Bid Opening October2026

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:

Prime Contractors interested in qualifying for the referenced SOQ must submit their Technical Qualification electronically as defined in Section II Project Specific Requirement Submittals and Qualifications.

APPROVAL PROCESS AND SOQ NOTIFICATION:

A City Selection Committee comprised of personnel with the appropriate technical expertise shall review the above Statements of Qualifications. The Committee, at its discretion, may contact any or all of the Prime Contractors, references and conduct interviews and/or discussions to obtain sufficient information to render their determinations. When the Committee has completed its review and selected those Prime Contractors that will be approved to bid on future referenced projects, they will submit the list of Prime Contractors to Purchasing Services.

Purchasing Services will then notify all pre-qualified Prime Contractors who have been pre-qualified to bid future reference projects.

When the design for the project is complete and ready for solicitation, only those approved Prime Contractors will be solicited and allowed to bid. Further, any Prime Contractors, regardless of their qualifications, which have not been pre-approved in this solicitation, will be mailto:heellis@auroragov.org precluded from bidding on the referenced project. A Prime Contractor inclusion on the list of pre-qualified Prime Contractors does not guarantee a Prime Contractor of the award of any work with the City of Aurora. This pre-qualification is only for the projects listed with this SOQ.

Finally, this process does not preclude the City from rejecting a pre-approved Prime Contractor as non-responsive after bid opening and prior to award if the basis is information subsequently discovered that would have originally disqualified a Prime Contractor.

CONFIDENTIALITY

SOQs submitted to the City for consideration shall be subject to the Colorado Open Records Law, Section 24-72-201, et seq., C.R.S. Any confidential information in the Prime Contractor’s SOQ shall be identified as such. If any information is considered to be confidential, the Prime Contractors shall agree to indemnify the City for any and all attorney fees that the City may incur in defending the withholding of such information by signing and returning the letter found at Attachment B to this Statement of Qualifications. Should the City receive a request for the release of any information in the Prime Contractor’s SOQ in accordance with the open records law, the City will release only that information which has not been identified as confidential so long as Attachment B has been signed and returned by the Prime Contractors along with the SOQ. Should the Prime Contractors choose not to sign and return Attachment B, all information in the Prime Contractor’s SOQ shall be considered releasable by the City. The Prime Contractors will not be notified of any open records requests prior to the release of such information. If, in the opinion of City’s legal counsel, the City is nonetheless compelled to disclose any portion of such information to anyone or else stand liable for contempt or suffer censure or penalty, the City may disclose such information without liability.

MISCELLANEOUS

Pursuant to Colorado Revised Statute 8-17-101, 102, & 103, a minimum of eighty percent (80%) Colorado labor is mandated for all public works construction. "Colorado labor" is defined as any person who is a resident of the state of Colorado at the time of employment without discrimination as to race, color, creed, sex, age, or religion except when sex or age is a bona fide occupational qualification.

PROJECT INFORMATION AND INQUIRIES:

Since this solicitation is not an Invitation to Bids and is designed only to identify and pre-qualify those Prime Contractors type bidders who will be approved to bid, further details about the project will not be provided.

CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO

Heidi

Heidi Ellis, NIGP-CPP, CPPB, C-P.H.M.

Senior Procurement Agent heellis@auroragov.org mailto:heellis@auroragov.org

SCOPE OF WORK

STATEMENT:

The City of Aurora (“City”) is seeking to pre-qualify Prime Contractors to provide on-call services for the I-70 Lift Station Electrical Improvements project.

PROJECT SYNOPSIS:

The City is planning improvements to the I-70 Stormwater Lift Station (I-70 LS) to enhance the reliability, functionality, and maintainability of the facility. The project includes relocating all electrical equipment from the front of the site to the side, replacing one pump, installing three (3) new variable frequency drives (VFDs), and adding two (2) new electrical cabinets for high- and low-voltage equipment.

Additional improvements include constructing a canopy to protect equipment and personnel during maintenance activities, installing a new slide gate at the wet well inlet, constructing a baffle wall, replacing gate valves, and incorporating infrastructure to support future Starlink connectivity upgrades.

The opinion of probable cost for the Work is estimated to be between $2,400,000 and $2,700,000.

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SECTION I

Project Specific Requirement Submittals and Qualifications

I. PROJECT SPECIFIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. Reference Projects:

a. At a minimum the Prime Contractor shall provide information for three (3) similar projects that have been completed within the last (5) years. At least one of the projects shall have been completed with the City, ideally.

b. Installation and integration of electrical, power, and control systems should be a large portion of each of the reference projects including VFDs, PLCs, pumps and instrumentation.

c. Additional projects that are considered similar may also be submitted in addition to the minimum requirements but do not include dissimilar projects.

d. The projects must be at least $1,000,000 dollars in total contract amount.

e. The reference projects should demonstrate that the Prime Contractor has the ability to procure and install components similar to that of requirements and characteristics described under the project synopsis of this SOQ.

f. Please complete the information requested in Attachment A following these pages.

2. List construction experience of the Project Manager and Superintendent that would be assigned to this project. Their resumes shall demonstrate the following minimum qualifications:

a. Project Manager shall have at least (5) five years of lift station and/or pump station experience. The project manager shall have successfully completed a minimum of three (3) projects of at least $500,000 per project as a Project Manager in the last five (5) years.

b. Superintendent shall have completed a minimum of two (2) similar in scope and nature to the project being submitted on, in the last five (5) years.

a. Similar projects: Water or wastewater pumping projects with VFDs, pumps, electrical, PLC, valves, and concrete structures.

3. Provide resumes for all Key Personnel. Resumes must be limited to two pages per individual and include:

a. Academic and professional qualifications

b. Professional registration(s) (as applicable)

c. Tenure with organization and industry

d. Experience as it relates to the Project and to the individual’s specified role on the Project.

II: CONTRACTOR QUALIFICATIONS

1. How many years has your organization been in business as a general Contractor?

2. How long has your organization been in business under its present business name?

3. Under what other or former names has your organization operated?

4. If a corporation, please answer the following:

• Date of incorporation

• State of incorporation

• President’s Name

• Vice-President’s Name

• Secretary’s Name

• Treasurer’s Name

5. If an Individual or partnership please answer the following:

• Date of organization

• Name and Address of all partners (state if general or limited partnership)

6. Have you ever failed to complete any work awarded to you?

• If so, note when, where and why.

7. Is your firm currently a debtor in a bankruptcy case?

8. Was your firm in bankruptcy at any time during the last five years?

9. Has your firm or any of its owners, officers, partners or members ever been found liable in a civil suit or found guilty in a criminal action for making any false claim or material misrepresentation to any public agency or entity? If yes, provide on a separate sheet the following information: the individual involved, the name of the public agency, the date of the investigation and the grounds for the finding.

10. Has your firm or any of its owners, officers, partners or members ever been convicted of a crime involving any federal, state, or local law related to construction? If yes, provide on a separate sheet the following information: the individual involved, the name of the public agency, the date of the investigation and the grounds for the conviction.

11. At any time during the past five years has your firm been assessed and paid liquidated damages under a construction contract with either a public or private owner? If yes, provide on a separate sheet the following information: the project, the project owner, owner’s address, the date of completion of project, amount of liquidated damages assessed, and all other information necessary to fully explain the assessment of liquidated damages.

12. In the past five years has your firm been denied an award of a public works contract based on a finding by a public agency that your firm was not a responsible bidder? If yes, provide on a separate sheet the following information: the year of the occurrence, the owner, the project and the basis for the finding by the public agency.

13. Provide name of bonding Company and name and address and phone number of agent.

14. Provide your insurance comp rating.

III. Past Performance and Professional Conduct – Pass/Fail

The City will evaluate the character, integrity, reputation, judgment, experience, and efficiency of the bidder based on their performance on past agreements with the City, as well as with other entities when such performance can be reasonably verified by the City.

Consideration may include the Prime Contractor’s ability to meet contractual obligations, maintain professional conduct, communicate effectively, demonstrate sound judgment, and complete work in an efficient and satisfactory manner.

Pass: The Prime Contractor demonstrates a satisfactory record of performance on previous agreements, with no significant documented concerns regarding character, integrity, reputation, judgment, experience, or efficiency. Past work indicates the Prime Contractor has met contractual obligations and maintained professional and ethical standards.

Fail: The Prime Contractor has a documented history of unsatisfactory performance, including but not limited to failure to meet contractual obligations, poor professional conduct, lack of integrity, unresolved disputes, or other significant concerns related to character, judgment, reputation, experience, or efficiency that the City can reasonably verify. If Prime Contractor is marked with a Fail for this category, they may be excluded from pre-qualification.

SECTION II

Evaluation Criteria

To be eligible for qualifications, the Prime Contractor must submit all requested information.

Failure to provide any required information may result in the Prime Contractor/Teams being rejected from further consideration.

The following criteria shall be used to determine which Prime Contractor shall be pre-qualified to bid on the referenced project.

Item Criteria Points

1 Technical Competence of Project Superintendent. 35

2 Technical Competence of Project Manager. 30

3 Experience of the Prime Contractor Company. 25

4 Meetings Project Schedule. 05

5 Organization and completeness of the Teams Statement 05 of Qualification (SOQ).

Total 100

SOQ ACKNOWLEDGEMENT FORM

In submitting this Statement of Qualifications (SOQ), it is understood that the right is reserved by the City of Aurora to reject any and all SOQ’s as deemed to be in the City’s best interest.

The undersigned further states that under penalty of perjury their submitted SOQ to the best of their knowledge is true and contains current accurate information as of the date identified below.

OFFICIAL ADDRESS:

(COMPANY NAME)

(TYPE/PRINT PRINCIPAL'S NAME)

(SIGNATURE OF PRINCIPAL)

(TITLE)

PHONE:

(DATE)

(TELEPHONE NUMBER)

(EMAIL ADDRESS)

ATTACHMENT A

Project Name

Architect/ Engineer

Architect/ Engineer Contact Name

Current Telephone Number

Prime Contractor Name

Project Manager

Construction Manager

Superintendent

Foreman

Description of project, scope of work performed, equipment requirements, number of change orders and amounts, and contract duration (refer to Section I for specific details to include):

Total value of construction (including change orders):

Original scheduled completion date:

Time extensions granted (number of days):

Actual date of completion:

ATTACHMENT B

Re: Request under the Colorado Open Records Act SOQ-26-6151A I-70 Lift Station Electrical Improvements

Statement of Qualifications (SOQ) submitted by Prime Contractor in response to the City of Aurora’s (“City”) Request for Statement of Qualifications SOQ-26-6151A is subject to the Colorado Open Records Act. The City agrees not to release any information that is clearly marked as confidential and/or proprietary in your SOQ pursuant to C.R.S. 24-72-201.

By having an authorized officer of the company sign below, Prime Contractor agrees to indemnify the City for any and all attorney fees that the City may incur in defending the withholding of such information.

Prime Contractor

By:

Signature

Name (Type or Print)

Title

Date

Finance Department

Purchasing Division 15151 E Alameda Parkway Aurora, Colorado 80012