SOQ-25-6072A - Potable Water Pipeline Cleaning.pdf

Potable Water Pipeline Cleaning Contractors SOQ-25-6072A

STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS: SOQ-25-6072A

TITLE: Potable Pipeline Cleaning

CLASS/ITEM: 91244, 91339, 91340, 91345, 91356,

91360, 91377, 91378, 91381 DATE ADVERTISED: July 17, 2025

PRE-INVITATION NOTICE/STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS

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

QUALIFICATION.

Potable Water Pipeline Cleaning

The City of Aurora will accept Statements of Qualifications (SOQs) for this solicitation until 2:00 P.M., Local Time, on August 5, 2025. Statements of Qualifications (SOQs) shall be submitted electronically through the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System (aka BidNet). File size limit is 25 MB. 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 e-procurementsupport@bidnet.com.

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

SOLICITATION, OR TO OTHERWISE PAY FOR INFORMATION SOLICITED HEREIN.

THIS SOLICITATION IS ISSUED FOR THE PURPOSE OF:

Selecting qualified Contractors to provide Potable Water Pipeline Cleaning.

Note: When a bid for providing Potable Water Pipeline Cleaning is solicited, only those qualified contractors selected from this process will be solicited or allowed to participate.

The City of Aurora reserves the right to amend, by an 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 amendments 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 contractors 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bid information from other sources do so understanding that their information may be incomplete, inaccurate, or out of date and therefore wholly unreliable from a commercial perspective. Contractors 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 prospective contractors registered for the no charge, no notification service on the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System to monitor the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System for any addenda. Failure to do so may lead to reliance on incomplete, inaccurate, or out of date information when submitting proposals subjecting such proposals 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 proposals, an addendum will be issued announcing the new date.

PROJECT SYNOPSIS:

The City of Aurora has the need to employ a contractor to provide Potable Water Pipeline Cleaning for water mains up to 30” in diameter. This project consists of furnishing all labor, materials equipment, tools, and supplies to provide certified potable water pipeline cleaning services and equipment.

Note: All questions shall be submitted in writing to Dean Bedford, Principal Engineer, via email at dbedford@auroragov.org AND Nathan Jones, Contract Administrator, via email at njones@aurora.gov.org. Questions are due by 2:00 p.m., local time, July 24, 2025. Responses will be posted via addendum posted to BidNet.

APPROXIMATE SCHEDULE

Pre-Qualification Advertise July 17, 2025 Questions Due 2:00 p.m., July 24, 2025 Pre-Qualification Submittal 2:00 p.m., August 5, 2025 Issue Invitation to Bid for Approved Contractors As Needed

SECTION I: PROJECT SPECIFIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. List at least three similar construction projects your organization has completed in the last five years. For each of the projects listed, please complete the information requested in Attachment A (you may reproduce the form as necessary). Similar projects shall be construed to have the following minimum characteristics:

• Work that included cleaning potable water mains up to 30” in diameter in Colorado.

2. Submit the company’s standard procedures for precleaning water mains for disinfection.

3. Submit the company’s standard procedures employed to certify the cleaning equipment is suitable for potable water pipeline use.

4. 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 five years of water main cleaning experience.

The project manager shall have successfully completed a minimum of three projects of at least $25,000 per project as a project manager in the last five years.

b. Superintendent shall have completed a minimum of three projects of water main cleaning of at least 8” in diameter and 1,000-ft in length, in the last five years

5. List major construction projects your organization currently has in progress. List name of project, owner, contract amount, percent complete, estimated completion date, and provide a brief description.

The City of Aurora reserves the right to contact any or all parties given as references to verify the information provided.

mailto:dbedford@auroragov.org mailto:njones@aurora.gov.org

SECTION 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.

EVALUATION CRITERIA:

In order to be eligible for qualification, a Contractor must submit all information as requested herein. Omission of any of the required information may be grounds to reject the Contractor from further consideration.

The following criteria shall be used to determine which Contractor shall be approved to bid on the referenced project.

Experience of the Firm 30 Certification Methodology 10 Technical Competence of Project Manager 20 Technical Competence of Superintendent 30 Organization and Completeness of SOQ 10 TOTAL 100 pts

APPROVAL PROCESS AND BIDDER NOTIFICATION:

A City Selection Committee comprised of personnel with the appropriate technical expertise shall review the above Statements of Qualification. The Committee, at its discretion, may contact any or all of the 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 Contractors that will be approved to bid on providing these services, they will submit the list of Contractors to Purchasing Services. Purchasing Services will then notify all Contractors of the Contractors who have been selected and approved to bid.

When potable water main cleaning is required, only those approved Contractors will be solicited and allowed to bid. Further, any Contractors, regardless of their qualifications, which have not been pre-approved in this solicitation, will be precluded from bidding on the referenced project. A Contractor’s inclusion on the list of pre-qualified Contractors does not guarantee a Contractor of the award of any work with the City of Aurora. This pre-qualification is only for the services listed with this SOQ.

Finally, this process does not preclude the City from rejecting a pre-approved Contractor as non-responsive after bid opening and prior to award if the basis is information subsequently discovered that would have originally disqualified a 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 contractor’s SOQ shall be identified as such. If any information is considered to be confidential, the contractor shall agree to indemnify the City of Aurora 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 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 contractor along with the SOQ. Should the contractor choose not to sign and return Attachment B, all information in the contractor’s SOQ shall be considered releasable by the City. 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 & INQUIRIES:

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

City of Aurora Purchasing Services

15151 E. Alameda Parkway Aurora, CO 80012-1553

CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO

Nathan Jones Procurement Supervisor

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.

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Attachment A

Project Name Architect/ Engineer/Owner Architect/ Engineer/Owner Contact Name Current Telephone Number

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

City of Aurora Purchasing Services, Suite 5700 15151 E. Alameda Parkway Aurora, Colorado 80012 Phone: 303-739-7100 Fax: 303-739-7509 www.auroragov.org

Re: Request under the Colorado Open Records Act

Request for Statement of Qualifications SOQ-25-6072A

Statement of Qualifications (SOQ) submitted by contractors in response to the City of Aurora’s Request for Statement of Qualifications SOQ-25-6072A 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, contractor agrees to indemnify the City of Aurora for any and all attorney fees that the City may incur in defending the withholding of such information.

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