Engineering Services for the Union Pacific Railroad (UPRR) Cadiz St. Underpass (CSJ 0918-47-469) (Step One of Two-Step RFQ/RFP)

The City of Dallas Department of Transportation and Public Works is requesting statements of qualifications from civil engineering firms for engineering services on the Union Pacific Railroad Cadiz Street Underpass project (CSJ 0918-47-469), Step One of a two-step RFQ/RFP process, with SOQs due September 11, 2026. This is a federally-funded major project subject to federal procurement requirements and compliance with TxDOT standards, UPRR requirements, and DART requirements. DBE certification activities are currently halted pending federal interim final rule updates.

The scope encompasses preliminary planning document refinement, environmental services complying with NEPA requirements, and detailed plans, specifications, and estimates for UPRR bridge reconstruction and Cadiz Street widening from 3-lane to 4-lane divided roadway with bicycle and pedestrian improvements between West of Hotel Street and Botham Jean Boulevard. Services include roadway and retaining wall design, bridge design, hydrologic and hydraulic analysis, traffic engineering, signal design, right-of-way mapping, water and wastewater design, utility coordination, subsurface utility engineering, survey, geotechnical services, traffic control planning, railroad coordination, and if requested, value engineering study and construction phase support.

Minimum qualifications require a Texas-licensed Professional Engineer as Project Manager with 15 years' bridge and roadway design experience and 10 years' project management experience, plus completion of at least two Class I railroad bridge replacement projects. Task Leaders must be Texas-licensed Professional Engineers with 10 years' railroad bridge design or coordination experience. A CVS-certified Value Engineering Task Lead with three years' lead facilitator experience and a Public Outreach Task Lead with 10 years' federally-funded project experience are required.

The SOQ is limited to 20 pages (8.5" × 11", font 11, 0.75-inch margins), exclusive of cover page and organizational chart. Respondents must provide three references each for schematic development, bridge and retaining wall design, roadway design, and railroad coordination. Evaluation is based on 100 points: consultant approach to project (35 points), pertinent experience (25 points), capabilities and resources (15 points), project manager qualifications (15 points), and current contracts (10 points). Shortlisted firms will advance to Step Two (RFP) with cost proposals and contract negotiations following firm rankings. Questions are due August 31, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. CST. A pre-solicitation meeting was held August 18, 2026 at 9:30 a.m. CST via Microsoft Teams.