Cultural Resources Assessment Services

The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) is conducting a procurement for Cultural Resources Assessment Services across Walton County and Clewiston City, with a comprehensive Request for Proposal (RFP) identified as DOT-RFP-25-3002-CS. The contract seeks qualified firms to provide extensive cultural resources assessment services, including archaeological surveys, historical structure evaluations, National Register of Historic Places eligibility determinations, and consultation with relevant stakeholders. Proposers must demonstrate technical capabilities through a detailed work plan estimating staff hours by skill classification, with evaluation criteria spanning executive summary, administrative/management plan, key personnel identification, technical approach, facility capabilities, prior relevant experience, and work plan. The procurement timeline is structured with several critical dates: proposals are due September 19, 2024, at 10:00 AM, with a technical proposal public opening at 10:30 AM, oral presentations scheduled for October 22, 2024, at 9:30 AM, and price proposal public opening on October 29, 2024, at 2:00 PM. Technical proposals will be scored on a 100-point scale, with firms needing to achieve at least 80 points to advance to oral presentations, and an additional 10 points available for pricing.

While no specific set-aside designations were explicitly detailed in the documents, the RFP indicates flexibility in team composition, allowing prime contractors to also participate as subcontractors and permitting subconsultants to appear in multiple proposals. The project includes a liquidated damages clause of $100 per calendar day for late delivery, which cannot be waived. The procurement documents do not definitively state an incumbent vendor, though the Intent to Award Tabulation indicates Ardurra Group, Inc. received the highest total score of 104.41 points and is the apparent awarded vendor, with a proposed pricing of $46,300. The contract appears to have a budgetary ceiling around $3,000,000, with pricing to be submitted as fully loaded hourly billing rates that include all anticipated expenses. Travel expenses will not be separately reimbursed, and proposers must account for all potential costs within their hourly rates. The contract term is initially unspecified, but previous documents suggested a potential three-year base term with additional renewal options.