Active SLED Opportunity · CALIFORNIA · MAINTENANCE
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RTD in California seeks qualified vendors for biannual stormwater maintenance and inspection services. The contract includes preventative maintenance, cleaning, inspection, and reporting to ensure regulatory compliance and operational functionality of stormwater infrastructure. Submission requires technical proposals, references, and compliance with federal and local regulations.
Stormwater Maintenance and Inspection Services
Project Location: California
RTD is soliciting qualified vendors to provide biannual stormwater maintenance and inspection services for existing stormwater treatment infrastructure located in California. The selected contractor shall furnish all labor, equipment, materials, transportation, disposal, documentation, and supervision necessary to perform preventative maintenance, inspection, cleaning, and reporting services in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local environmental regulations.
The procurement is intended to establish a qualified service agreement that ensures continued regulatory compliance, operational functionality, and preventative maintenance of RTD’s stormwater infrastructure assets.
RTD maintains stormwater treatment infrastructure to support regulatory compliance, protect water quality, and ensure the long-term functionality of its facilities and surrounding drainage systems. This project is intended to establish a proactive, reliable maintenance program that minimizes sediment buildup, prevents system failures, and reduces the risk of pollutant discharge into municipal storm drain systems and receiving waters. RTD is seeking a qualified vendor with demonstrated experience in stormwater infrastructure maintenance, environmental compliance, and detailed reporting practices.
Quotes will be reviewed to determine the vendor that provides the best value to the agency, considering price, qualifications, delivery timeline, and compliance approach.
Upload your Technical Proposal to include your "Letter of Transmittal".
Please provide the following:
Please confirm that your Cost/Price Proposal Form will be valid for 120 calendar days from the date the proposal is due.
In accordance with the Conflict of Interest section of this RFP, a list of Proposer’s current contracts that involve work with RTD, including its relationship to RTD and a brief description of its job under the contract (if applicable). Proposers must identify any potential conflicts that may compromise its delivery of unbiased work product.
If none, please reply NOT APPLICABLE
Provide a minimum of three and a maximum of five references for projects completed by the Proposer in the last five years that consisted of work that is the same or similar to the Services required in this RFP. Include public agency clients and transportation agencies, if any. Do not list RTD as a reference.
Please upload your quote for review.
California Government Code Section 84308 (commonly referred to as the “Levine Act”) prohibits any RTD Board Member from participating in any action related to a contract, if he or she receives any political contributions totaling more than $500 from the person or company awarded the contract within the previous twelve months, and for twelve (12) months following the date a final decision concerning the contract has been made. The Levine Act also requires a member of the RTD Board who has received such a contribution to disclose the contribution on the record of the proceeding.
RTD’s current Board members are: Gary S. Giovanetti, Les J. Fong, Aaron Edwards, Dereck Graves Jr. and Geneva Moorad.
Answering yes does not preclude RTD from awarding a contract to your firm or taking any subsequent action related to the contract. It does, however, preclude the identified Board Member(s) from participating in any actions related to this RFP and resulting contract(s).
California Government Code Section 84308 (commonly referred to as the “Levine Act”) prohibits any RTD Board Member from participating in any action related to a contract, if he or she receives any political contributions totaling more than $500 from the person or company awarded the contract within the previous twelve months, and for twelve (12) months following the date a final decision concerning the contract has been made. The Levine Act also requires a member of the RTD Board who has received such a contribution to disclose the contribution on the record of the proceeding.
RTD’s current Board members are: Gary S. Giovanetti, Les J. Fong, Aaron Edwards, Dereck Graves Jr. and Geneva Moorad.
Answering yes does not preclude RTD from awarding a contract to your firm or taking any subsequent action related to the contract. It does, however, preclude the identified Board Member(s) from participating in any actions related to this RFP and resulting contract(s).
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[DESCRIPTION OF SCOPE OF SERVICES – ONE
OR TWO PARAGRAPHS]
Please type the following sentence with the appropriate aticipated compensation range:
EXAMPLE:
The anticipated compensation for provision of the Services is between: $35,000 and $50,000.
Please enter the initial length of contract:
[number of years] (X)
Example:
three years (3)
Please enter the number of optional renewal years:
[number of years] (X)
EXAMPLE:
two years (2)
Please enter specific type of references that may be required. Your answer will populate the bold text in the paragraph below:
A minimum of three (3) and a maximum of five (5) references of client for whom, within the past five years, the Proposer has provided the same or similar services as those called for in this RFP and/or [list specific types of references required]. Include public agency clients and transportation agencies, if any.
Do federal requirements apply to this project?
Select all that apply per the following instructions:
☐ VETERANS PREFERENCE. [Applicable if capital project consisting of construction work]
☐ GOVERNMENT-WIDE DEBARMENT AND SUSPENSION. [Applicable if contract is expected to equal or exceed $25k or if contract is for federally required audit services]
☐ LOBBYING. [Applicable if contract is expected to exceed $100k; INCLUDE APPROPRIATE CERTIFICATE]
☐ CLEAN WATER AND AIR REQUIREMENTS. [Applicable if contract is expected to exceed $150k]
☐ BUY AMERICA REQUIREMENTS. [Applicable if contract is for over $150k of iron, steel, manufactured goods, or rolling stock; INCLUDE APPROPRIATE CERTIFICATE]
☐ PRE-AWARD AND POST-DELIVERY AUDIT REQUIREMENTS. [Applicable if rolling stock procurement]
☐ ACCESSIBILITY. [Applicable if contract is related to rolling stock (including services, equipment, or new procurements) or public transportation facilities – consult with legal counsel for customization]
☐ BUS TESTING. [Applicable if contract is to lease or purchase any new bus model or any bus model with a major change in configuration or components to be acquired or leased with fta funds]
☐ DAVIS-BACON ACT REQUIREMENTS. [Applicable if construction, alteration, or repair (including painting) contract in excess of $2,000]
☐ CONTRACT WORK HOURS AND SAFETY STANDARDS ACT. [Applicable if contract is expected to equal or exceed $100k and involves employment of laborers and mechanics. this provision does not apply to the purchase of supplies or materials or articles ordinarily available on the open market, or to contracts for transportation or transmission of intelligence.]
☐ SEISMIC SAFETY. [Applicable if contract for the construction of new buildings or additions to existing buildings]
☐ CHARTER SERVICE OPERATIONS. [Applicable if contract for operation of public transportation service]
☐ PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION EMPLOYEE PROTECTIVE ARRANGEMENTS. [Applicable if contract for transit operations performed by employees of a contractor recognized by the fta as a transit operator]
☐ SCHOOL BUS OPERATIONS. [Applicable if contract for operating public transportation services]
☐ SUBSTANCE ABUSE REQUIREMENTS. [Consult with legal counsel – applicable if work involves the performance of safety-sensitive functions, as defined in 49 cfr § 655.4]
☐ DOMESTIC PREFERENCES FOR PROCUREMENTS. [Applicable if contract is for the purchase, acquisition, or use of goods, products, or other materials and is under the Buy America threshold; do not use for service contracts or if Buy America is applicable]
☐ NOTIFICATION REGARDING FALSE CLAIMS, FRAUD, WASTE, ABUSE, AND OTHER LEGAL MATTERS. [Applicable if contract is valued at $25,000 or more.]
Is Conflict of Interest language required for this project?
Please provide the names, if any of any firms that are currently assisting in areas related to the Services that are subject of this RFP.
EXAMPLE: Olson and Associates, AECOM, and Webb Associates.
Your answer will populate the text in bold letters below:
RTD currently has long-term contracts with consulting firms that are assisting in areas related to the Services that are the subject of this RFP. These Consultants are [insert names]. These firms, as well as subcontractors supporting the firms on RTD projects, are not eligible to submit proposals in response to this RFP or provide Services as a subconsultant to any Proposer.]
Please provide Required Vendor Qualifications
Description of Proposer’s qualifications to perform the Services, specifically including the following: [Insert customized list of specific required qualifications, skills, systems, etc.
For example:possess appropriate professional licenses required to perform the Services; knowledge and understanding of applicable regulations, codes and local conditions relating to the Services; accounting systems in place to adequately manage federally-sponsored cost-type contracts; quality assurance system to check analyses, calculations, drawings, specifications, cost estimates, reports and other supporting documentation required to perform the Services
PLEASE LIST ANY OTHER CATEGORIES OF DATA THAT CAN BE LINKED TO SPECIFIC INDIVIDUALS THAT THE CONTRACTOR WILL BE HANDLING].
YOUR ANSWER WILL POPULATE THE HIGHLIGHTED SECTION BELOW:
Contractor may have access to Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in connection with the performance of the Contract. PII is any information that identifies or describes a person or can be directly linked to a specific individual, including ridership and usage data. Examples of PII include, but are not limited to, name, address, phone or fax number, signature, date of birth, e-mail address, method of payment, payment card information, ridership and travel pattern data [LIST ANY OTHER CATEGORIES OF DATA THAT CAN BE LINKED TO SPECIFIC INDIVIDUALS THAT THE CONTRACTOR WILL BE HANDLING]. RTD Personally Identifiable Information, or RTD PII, means any PII relating to RTD's customers, employees, or agents.
Please select one or both options as applicable.
SLED stands for State, Local, and Education. These are solicitations issued by state governments, counties, cities, school districts, utilities, and higher education institutions — as opposed to federal agencies.
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