Water & soil solutions, LLC

The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) is conducting a single-source procurement for Water & Soil Solutions, LLC to operate, optimize, and maintain four existing floating aquatic vegetative tilling systems located in the eastern Caloosahatchee Basin, Fisheating Creek Basin, L28i Basin, and the North Feeder Canal basin. The vendor will be required to monitor phosphorus load reductions and provide GIS data layers of the deployed technology. The contract term is from July 1, 2023, through September 30, 2024, with an estimated value of approximately $5,100,000. Water & Soil Solutions, LLC was selected as the sole source because the firm specializes in designing and implementing innovative and sustainable environmental treatment technologies, has expertise in evaluating wastewater and surface water treatment technologies, and owns the patents to the floating aquatic vegetative tilling technology. The vendor has already secured the necessary landowner approvals to operate the existing projects.

This is a single-source procurement, and there are no set-aside designations or restrictions on the types of organizations that can respond. The current contractor, Water & Soil Solutions, LLC, is the incumbent vendor and owns the relevant patents and technology for the project. The attached documentation provides details on the products and services to be procured, as well as the justification for the single-source selection.