Request for Qualifications - Master Plan & Rerating Analysis for North Cary Water Reclamation Facility (NCWRF)

The Town of Cary, North Carolina is requesting qualifications for one or more engineering firms to develop a master plan and re-rating analysis for the North Cary Water Reclamation Facility, with qualifications due November 18, 2026 at 3:00 p.m. ET and questions due October 28, 2026.

The scope encompasses facility expansion from a current permitted capacity of 12.0 to 15.0 million gallons per day through a minimum 25-year master planning exercise. The eight primary tasks are data collection and review, facility capacity evaluation, hydraulic modeling and analysis, process modeling and performance assessment, re-rating evaluation and alternatives analysis, technical memorandum preparation, stakeholder coordination meetings, and three technical workshops on process evaluation capacity, influent pumping/screening/grit removal, and capital projects review.

The qualifications package is limited to 40 pages and must include a cover letter, corporate background, reference projects from the past ten years (minimum three references), project understanding and approach, and detailed team information with organizational chart. Evaluation criteria are weighted as follows: Corporate Background and Experience (20 points), Project Understanding (20 points), Project Approach (35 points), and Team Firm Experience and Qualifications (25 points). Hourly rates for proposed personnel must be submitted separately as a non-evaluable document and are explicitly excluded as a selection factor under the Mini-Brooks Act (NCGS 143-64.31). Selection will be based on qualifications ranking, after which contract negotiations commence. The Town reserves the right to cancel the RFQ or reject all proposals. All submissions become Town property and are subject to public records requests.