SOQ-25-6086A 2025 Water System Improvement Summer Valley.pdf

2025 Water System Improvements – Summer Valley Project SOQ-25-6086A

STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS: SOQ-25-6086A

TITLE: 2023 Water System Improvement Project

CLASS/ITEM: 91244, 91339, 91340, 91345, 91356, 91360, 91377,

91378, 91381, 91392, 91438, 91450, 92849, 92943, 95939 DATE ADVERTISED: September 15, 2025

PRE-INVITATION NOTICE/STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS

SOLICITATION FOR A PRE-INVITATION TO BID,

AND SUBMISSION OF A STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATION

2025 Water System Improvement Summer Valley

Please note this is a Federally funded project and the awarded Prime Contractor and their subs are subject to the Suspension and Debarment review. (You must have an active registration in SAMS.gov with a “Unique Entity Identifier” that is in good standing throughout the term of the Contract.) Davis Bacon Act wages must be adhered to. Buy America Build America and American Iron and Steel requirements must be adhered to as well.

There will be a Special Outreach Meeting that is Open to Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBEs) for both Potential Prime Contractors and interested DBE Subcontractors on October 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM at the Aurora Water’s South East Area Maintenance Facility located at 26791 E Quincy Ave, Aurora, CO 80016. This meeting will be held in the Wild Horse Conference Room and is MANDATORY for all prospective prime contractors interested in this project. All interested parties shall check in at the front desk. (See Map A attached at the end of the documents).

Statements of Qualifications (SOQs) shall be submitted electronically through the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System (aka BidNet) no later than 2:00 p.m., local time, October 8, 2025. 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 1-800-8354603 or e-mail support@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:

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Selecting qualified Contractors to bid on the 2025 Water System Improvement - Summer Valley Project.

Note: Contractors intending on serving as subcontractors (unless noted otherwise herein), or material suppliers should not submit Statements of Qualifications for this Pre-invitation/Statement of Qualification process. This process is designed to pre-qualify PRIME contractors only. When the bid for the construction project is solicited, only those 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 manual as they deem appropriate.

Note: There will be Federal Funding on this Project, so Davis Bacon Act & Build America Buy America Act (BABA) requirements apply. There will also be a review of the U.S. General Services Administration’s (GSA) Suspension & Debarment list for all Prime Contractors as well as Subcontractors. The Prime & all Subcontractors will need to register for a Unique Entity ID prior to the Award if you are the successful Bidder.

In order to not delay the award to the successful Bidder it is advisable to register at sam.gov for your Unique Entity ID. Supporting authority "OMB Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (Title 2 CFR 200) (“Uniform Guidance”), specifically §200.331, requires passthrough entities to evaluate each subrecipient's risk of noncompliance in order to determine the appropriate monitoring level, monitor the activities of subrecipient organizations to ensure that the subaward is in compliance with applicable Federal statutes and regulations and terms of the subaward, and verify that subrecipients are audited as required by Subpart F of the Uniform Guidance."

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 consultants 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. Consultants 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 consultants 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: 2025 Water System Improvement – Summer Valley Project The Work to be performed under the 2025 Water System Improvement – Summer Valley Project consists of furnishing all labor, materials equipment, tools, supplies including replacement and rehabilitation of water distribution pipelines and appurtenances for the Summer Valley Subdivision of approximately more than 4,000 linear feet of 12’’ , 8’’ and 6’’ waterline with PVC waterline via open-cut installation. All pipelines exist within paved ROW and require mill and overlay as conveyed in these Contract Documents. See the project location exhibit below.

The following exhibits show the geographic location of each of the Water System Improvement Locations.

Figure 1- Site Map

This Summer Valley area contains 12’’, 8’’ and 6’’ Ductile Iron Pipes (DIPs) installed between 1978-1982 just west of the Quincy reservoir. They lack cathodic protection, improper installation, thinner than average wall thickness, and corrosive soil are the main culprits for failure. Waterlines replacements locations are E. WAGONTRAIL PKWY & S.

PITKIN ST) and S. QUINTERO ST & E. STANFORD AVE

2025 Water System Improvements- Summer Valley Project

Figure 2- Project Map

The opinion of the probable cost for the Work is estimated to be between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000.

All questions shall be submitted in writing to Safa Obaid, Project Manager, via email at Sobaid@auroragov.org AND Nathan Jones, Contract Administrator, via email at njones@auroragov.org. Telephone inquiries will be accepted only for procedural questions by calling Nathan Jones at 303-739-7343. Questions are due by 2:00 p.m., local time, September 22, 2025. Responses will be posted via addendum posted to BidNet.

APPROXIMATE SCHEDULE

Pre-Qualification Advertise September 15, 2025 Questions Due 2:00 p.m. September 22, 2025 DBE Mandatory Meeting 10:00 a.m. October 2, 2025 Pre-Qualification Submittal 2:00 p.m. October 8, 2025 Issue Invitation to Bid for Approved Contractors

October 22, 2025

Bid Opening November 21, 2025

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:

• Water line replacement project in an existing urban residential or commercial environment where existing homes and businesses must be kept in service while the new system is installed. (New Development Projects should not be submitted.)

• Installed 6, 8 & 12 inch diameter Water Line • Installed pipe length of greater than 2,000 lf.

• Water service & fire line reconnections • Construction value of at least $1,000,000.

• Construction in an urban and high traffic environment

• Local projects (Aurora or Denver Metro Area)

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:

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a. Project manager shall have at least five years of similar work experience and shall have successfully completed a minimum of three projects of at least $1,000,000 per project.

b. Superintendent shall have completed a minimum of three open-cut installations of 8-in diameter and greater and 3000-ft in length, in the last five years. Note experience with service line re-connects within an urban environment where existing homes & businesses must be kept in service.

3. 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 and its consultant reserve the right to contact any or all parties given as references to verify the information provided.

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 40 Technical Competence of recommended Project Manager

Technical Competence of recommended Project Superintendent

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 the referenced project, 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 the design for the project is complete and ready for solicitation, 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 projects listed with this SOQ.

Finally, this process does not preclude the City from rejecting a pre-approved Contractor as nonresponsive 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

Architect/ Engineer

Architect/ Engineer 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-25-6086A

Statement of Qualifications (SOQ) submitted by contractors in response to the City of Aurora’s Request for Statement of Qualifications SOQ-25-6086A 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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(Map A) Aurora Water’s South East Area Maintenance Facility (SEAM)