Division Street / SR 536 Bridge Planning Study

For this study, the City seeks to engage the services of a qualified consultant team to undertake all elements of leading, developing, and delivering a planning and feasibility study that will provide preliminary planning, goals, guidance, and focus for a future bridge project.  The future bridge project will entail either providing full Active Transportation mobility and accessibly for all transportation modes at the location of the existing Division Street / State Route 536 Bridge over the Skagit River or provide alternative means to facilitate full Active Transportation mobility and accessibly for all transportation modes at a suitable, nearby location.  The key goal for this study is to support planning for the long-term community transportation needs and the financial preparations required to deliver on one or more future capital improvement projects for the bridge’s long-term future.  Ideally, this study will be used to either accelerate long-range planning and programming of a bridge project by WSDOT or provide the City the planning tools needed to consider a future City-led bridge project

As part of this process, the study will include identification of reasonable alternatives for the existing conditions and the anticipated future land uses and transportation needs for the bridge.  The consultant team will develop and lead an alternatives analysis to identify and characterize important planning and decision factors; and to provide momentum for eventual funding, permitting, and design processes.

The consultant team will also develop, organize, and lead public involvement and key stakeholder engagement efforts to facilitate the input and use of public input into this planning and feasibility study.  Engagement is anticipated to require multiple methods in order to effectively implement, particularly as multiple public and private agency and organization partners of the City are significantly affected by both current bridge conditions and future options, as well as the general public both within and outside of the City.  Public outreach and engagement methods will need to incorporate measures for providing language accessibility meeting current State of Washington standards for Limited English Proficiency (LEP) members of the public.

See Attachment A - Division Street Bridge Planning Study RFQ_FINAL for more information on project scope and basis for consultant selection.

Project Details

• Reference ID: 2025-RFQ-015
• Department: Public Works - Engineering
• Department Head: Chris Phillips (Director)

Important Dates

• Questions Due: 2026-04-21T23:00:00.000Z

Evaluation Criteria

• Qualifications and Experience of the Consultant (25 pts) —

  Includes qualifications of proposed project manager, qualifications/expertise of the overall consultant firm and proposed key personnel, qualifications/expertise of key subconsultants; as demonstrated through resumes submitted with the statement of qualifications and past project performance references for projects of a similar nature.

• Proposed Project Delivery Strategy (25 pts) —

  Includes demonstrations of an understanding of project and City goals and objectives, an approach to project requirements for successful delivery, identification and sequencing of key milestones for successful delivery, maintaining delivery schedules, and management approach.

• Demonstration of Team Readiness (25 pts) —

  Includes availability of key staff and subconsultants, readiness to meet the City’s schedule needs for the project, responsiveness to project scope changes, proposed staff and team coordination methods, and quality control strategies appropriate for this type of project; demonstrations are encouraged to address applicable, anticipated demands and challenges, as well as requirements.

• Demonstration of Familiarity with City and Subarea Planning, Public Engagement Needs, and Applicable Regulatory Requirements and Needs (25 pts) —

  Includes demonstrated familiarity through documentation of recent, applicable, and successful projects similar to this planning and feasibility study; familiarity with public outreach and engagement for transportation planning studies incorporating language accessibility for limited English proficiency (LEP) members of the public; also demonstrated, successful, previous experience with applicable regulatory requirements and their particular and unique impacts on alternatives analysis, risk analysis, and similar feasibility practices.

Submission Requirements

• Upload Statement of Qualifications Here (required) —

  All SOQ submissions and all inquiries related to this SOQ are to be submitted through the City’s e-Procurement Portal.  Please attach your project-specific SOQ using the link here.

  Each SOQ document must adhere to the following format:

  1. A cover letter.
  2. Statements of the Consultant’s qualifications clearly illustrating ability and skills in all scope elements identified in in this RFQ.
  3. Approach to completing the project successfully
  4. Ability to meet the anticipated project schedule
  5. Any additional information that positively reflect and support the Consultant’s ability to provide the services described in this RFQ and facilitate consideration of the Consultant.
  6. Signature line, with name and title of signatory, firm, address, telephone and email address.

  Faxed, emailed, or paper submittals will not be accepted. The responsibility for submitting the SOQ document by the due date and time rests with the Consultant.

• No Deviations From This Solicitation (required) —

  In submitting a response to this solicitation, Respondent is certifying that it takes no exceptions to this solicitation including, but not limited to, the Agreement. If any exceptions are taken, such exceptions must be clearly noted here, and may be reason for rejection of the response. As such, Respondent is directed to carefully review the proposed Agreement and, in particular, the insurance and indemnification provisions therein (or type "N/A").

• I hereby certify under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Washington that all of the information submitted in connection with this solicitation and all of the representations made herein are true and correct. By confirming below, I certify that I am an authorized representative to sign and submit this response on behalf of my company. (required)