Engineering Services

Socorro County, New Mexico is soliciting competitive sealed proposals for professional engineering consulting services through RFP No. 2021-02-401, seeking a qualified firm to provide on-call consulting and engineering services. The one-year contract, with potential automatic renewals up to three additional years, will cover a comprehensive range of planning, design, engineering, and construction support tasks including preliminary and final design, road project modifications, procurement assistance, road system evaluations, environmental studies, cost estimating, surveying, project management, and construction engineering. Proposals are due on July 21, 2021, at 11:00 am, with a contract award anticipated on August 24, 2021. The evaluation process will utilize a 1,000-point scoring system, assessing professional qualifications (200 points), experience (300 points), specialized design competence (150 points), references (100 points), and familiarity with Socorro County (100 points). A pre-proposal conference was scheduled for June 28, 2021, with proposal evaluations planned for July 22-26, 2021, and a protest deadline set for September 8, 2021.

The RFP does not explicitly indicate specific set-aside designations for disadvantaged enterprises, though additional consideration will be given to firms with local office presence and those producing work as a New Mexico business. The compensation structure will be determined on a task order basis, with engineers preparing detailed scope and cost proposals for individual projects using either lump sum or hourly rate payment methods. Each task order will have a maximum compensation limit, and the selected engineer must maintain professional liability insurance of at least $1,000,000 per claim and $2,000,000 in aggregate, along with general liability coverage. While no incumbent vendors are mentioned, the contract allows for flexible, as-needed engineering services across multiple project types. The specific budget range is not explicitly stated in the procurement documents, but the contract's structure suggests a potentially significant annual investment in engineering and consulting services for Socorro County's infrastructure and development needs.