SLED Opportunity · WASHINGTON · CITY OF SEATTLE
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City of Seattle requests qualifications for on-call environmental science services. Qualifications due by April 3, 2026. Questions due by March 20, 2026 via e-procurement portal.
The City of Seattle is seeking qualifications for On-Call Environmental Science Services. Qualifications are due no later than 1:00 pm on Friday, April 3, 2026. All questions are to be submitted through the e-procurement portal at https://procurement.opengov.com/portal/seattle no later than 5:00 pm on Friday, March 20, 2026.
Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) is seeking qualified firms to provide on‑call professional environmental science services, including environmental field investigations, technical analyses, and recommendations that support preliminary engineering, design development, and construction phase compliance. The work enables SPU to identify, characterize, and manage subsurface contamination through coordinated environmental investigations, analytical evaluations, and construction phase oversight. It supports SPU in maintaining safe, compliant, and on-schedule delivery of infrastructure projects. SPU anticipates awarding one (1) on‑call contract with an estimated value of $750,000 - $1,000,000.
The Pre-Submittal presentation and attendee list for SPU RFQ 26-031-S On-Call Environmental Science Services are attached.
Provide a detailed description of your team’s approach to managing, executing, and delivering the work successfully. Your approach must demonstrate or include the following:
Proposed staff members shall have a minimum of ten (10) years of experience providing professional environmental science service. Consultant team must include at least one currently licensed Professional Engineer or Licensed Geologist, or certified as a Certified Environmental Scientist in the state of Washington and have a minimum of twenty (20) years of professional experience.
Describe at least three (3) recent projects, completed within the last 10 years for which your firm has performed Environmental Science Services for a public or private agency of similar size to Seattle. Describe key team member qualifications integral to the success of those projects, any problems encountered, and the solutions developed and implemented to resolve them. Do not include projects completed by members of a firm that are not assigned to the proposed team.
Respondent shall complete the WMBE Inclusion Plan. Points are awarded for responses that evidence:
Expected contract core services include:
This response is mandatory. The determination you have achieved all minimum qualifications is made from this section alone, and therefore, the Evaluation Committee is not obligated to check references or search other materials in your proposal to make this decision.
For each Minimum Qualification listed below, please describe how you meet the minimum qualification.
Minimum Qualification #1
Provide Minimum Qualification
Minimum Qualification #2
Provide Minimum Qualification
Minimum Qualification #3
Provide Minimum Qualification
Please download the below documents, complete, and upload.
Please download the below document, complete, and upload.
Provide information to the extent this information is available. If your response is incomplete or requires further description, the City may request additional information within a specified deadline, or may determine the missing information is immaterial.
Make requested changes to the Contract language using track changes and upload here.
Are there qualifications the Consultants must have to even be considered? Minimum qualifications should ONLY be those that the Consultant must meet to have their proposal considered, meaning you will toss the proposal out in full if the Consultant cannot meet the minimum qualifications.
Minimum qualifications can sometimes be important, such as a professional license. If you require a Minimum Qualification, ensure it is fair, appropriate and reasonable. Consultants can protest these if they seem exclusionary and unnecessary. In addition, some federal requirements may restrict or prohibit the use of such qualifications. Review the terms of the grant to ensure compliance with all such requirements. Minimum Qualifications are only for factual yes/no items which can be easily proven as a matter of fact and on the face of the RFQ response. These are NOT subjective such as “Company needs to be experienced” or “needs to have good references.” These are instead hard and fast criteria we check off “yes or no,” and we will toss them out without further consideration if they say no.
Note to department – All non-federally funded contracts above $395,000 require an Inclusion Plan. If potential work, including all phases, is above $395,000, retain the Inclusion Plan as a required submittal. The Mayor’s 2010 policy requires you to score the WMBE response, for no less than 10% of total points.
Departments are encouraged to list the core Scope of Work items that the department has determined to be available for subcontracting.
Contracts with FEDERAL FUNDING may require different or additional social equity requirements, such as federal Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) requirements, which are required for US DOT funded projects, such as FTA projects.
Exceptions: Exceptions to the Inclusion Plan requirement are rare. Departments must notify their WMBE IDT representative and PC for a review and written approval of an exception. An exception does not relieve the Consultant of its responsibilities to seek WMBE inclusion if changes to the contract provides opportunities for WMBE inclusion.
For assistance, contact Miguel Beltran at Miguel.Beltran@Seattle.gov or 206-684-4525.
State law requires the City to select the firm deemed to be the most highly qualified to provide A&E services. The City cannot ask for pricing before selecting the most highly qualified vendor.
Per RCW 18.08.320, Architecture includes: the rendering of any service or related work requiring architectural education, training, and experience, in connection with the art and science of building design for construction of any structure or grouping of structures and the use of space within and surrounding the structures or the design for construction of alterations or additions to the structures, including but not specifically limited to predesign services, schematic design, design development, preparation of construction contract documents, and administration of the construction contract.
Per RCW 18.43.020, Engineering is any professional service or creative work requiring engineering education, training, and experience and the application of special knowledge of the mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences to such professional services or creative work as consultation, investigation, evaluation, planning, design, and supervision of construction for the purpose of assuring compliance with specifications and design, in connection with any public or private utilities, structures, buildings, machines, equipment, processes, works, or projects.
Per RCW 18.96, Landscape Architecture is the rendering of professional services in connection with consultations, investigations, reconnaissance, research, planning, design, construction document preparation, construction administration, or teaching supervision in connection with the development of land areas where, and to the extent that, the dominant purpose of such services is the preservation, enhancement, or determination of proper land uses, natural land features, ground cover and planting, naturalistic and aesthetic values, the settings and approaches to structures or other improvements, or natural drainage and erosion control. This practice includes the location, design, and arrangement of such tangible objects as pools, walls, steps, trellises, canopies, and such features as are incidental and necessary to the purposes in this chapter. Landscape architecture involves the design and arrangement of land forms and the development of outdoor space including, but not limited to, the design of public parks, trails, playgrounds, cemeteries, home and school grounds, and the development of industrial and recreational sites.
Q (No subject): Can SPU provide the name of the incumbent firm/current contract holder?
A: Herrera Environmental Consultants currently holds the contract providing environmental engineering support services for SPU’s Geotechnical Engineering group. Recently, this contract has served as a temporary solution to bridge gaps created by the lack of other contracts that integrate both consultant and purchase related services. It has already been amended by a substantial amount and can no longer be modified to add additional funding, which is why SPU is now soliciting a new contract.
Q (No subject): Can the City clarify whether staff with slightly less than ten (10) years of experience may be included on the proposed team or organizational chart if they are not identified as key personnel, or if their role is clearly secondary to staff meeting the 10‑year minimum?
A: Yes, staff with slightly less than ten (10) years of experience may be included on the proposed team or organizational chart if they are not identified as key personnel.
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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