The Salt Lake City Department of Public Utilities is seeking consulting services through a Request for Proposals for design and engineering work related to the Lee Drain Culvert Replacements project (Project No. 534701259) in Salt Lake County, Utah. The project entails replacing four City-owned culverts at the crossings of Gladiola Street, 5500 West, 5070 West, and 4800 West, based on recommendations from the Northwest Canal and Creek Study published by Salt Lake County Flood Commissions in April 2022. The consulting team must provide preliminary design, final design through a 60/90 percent review process, bidding services, and construction-related services to address undersized culverts that cannot adequately convey 100-year storm event flows. The technical proposal submission deadline is 2:00 PM on Friday, February 20, 2026, through the Utah Public Procurement Place (U3P) website, with the technical proposal limited to ten pages excluding resumes. Selection will be announced by February 27, 2026, followed by possible interviews the week of March 2, 2026, negotiation the week of March 9, 2026, and contract approval by March 19, 2026. The evaluation criteria are weighted as follows: consultant qualifications and experience with similar projects (25 percent), key personnel experience and qualifications (25 percent), responsiveness and availability to Salt Lake City Department of Public Utilities staff (25 percent), understanding of project scope (15 percent), and overall quality of RFP response (10 percent). The project timeline includes pre-design completion targeted for June 2026, design completion for October 2026, bidding for November 2026, and first culvert construction completion for April 2027, with remaining culverts constructed over a three-year period contingent on capital funding availability.
The RFP documentation does not identify specific set-asides or restrictions on organizational eligibility based on disadvantaged enterprise designations. Respondents must provide professional liability insurance of $2,000,000 per occurrence and commercial general liability insurance of $1,000,000 per occurrence, with Salt Lake City named as an additional insured. The cost proposal must itemize all services in U.S. dollars and include hourly wage rates for consultants, submitted separately from the technical proposal in PDF format. The consultant must comply with the attached Service Provider/Professional Services Agreement, with an initial term expiring October 2, 2026. No specific budget range or award value is disclosed in the RFP; however, the scope encompasses comprehensive design and engineering services across multiple phases over an extended timeline. All responses become the property of Salt Lake City and are subject to disclosure under Utah's Government Records Access and Management Act (GRAMA), though claims of business confidentiality may be submitted with written justification.
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