SLED Opportunity · WASHINGTON · CITY OF SEATTLE
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City of Seattle seeks qualifications for on-call land surveying services. Qualifications due by April 7, 2026. Questions due by March 20, 2026 via e-procurement portal.
The City of Seattle is seeking qualifications for On-Call Land Surveying Services. Qualifications are due no later than 1:00 pm on Tuesday, April 7, 2026. All questions are to be submitted through the e-procurement portal at https://procurement.opengov.com/portal/seattle no later than 1:00 pm on Friday, March 20, 2026.
Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) is requesting Statements of Qualifications from qualified Consultant Teams to provide On-Call Land Surveying Services. The Consultant is expected to deliver of a wide variety of infrastructure improvements, along with supporting Seattle Department of Transportation’s (SDOT) aggressive goals to construct pedestrian, bicycle, transit, roadway structure, traffic operations, and roadway improvements over the next ten years.
SPU intends to award up to four (4) consultant teams, or more if deemed in SPU’s interest, to provide as-needed land surveying services. No specific projects have been identified at this time. Rather, individual scopes of work will be determined based on planning, priority and budget and will be negotiated with the consultant as funding becomes available. Those individual scopes of work are issued in a Work Assignment with varying scopes, dates for milestones and deliverables. Under no circumstances shall this contract or subsequent work assignments go beyond five (5) years (SMC 20.50.040 G).
SPU does not guarantee any minimum quantity of work under this contract.
See attached Pre-Submittal Meeting Presentation and Attendee List for your use.
See attached for all questions (with answers) SPU received to date.
See attached for all questions (with answers) SPU received by the deadline on 03/20/2026.
Describe who the proposed team members (prime and subconsultants) are and why they are qualified to perform the work described in the scope of work. In your response,
Provide proposed team members’ availability over the duration of the contract.
A detailed consultant team organizational chart (including prime and sub consultants)
Describe your team’s experience with Land Survey Projects:
In your project description, include the following:
Evaluation of WMBE Inclusion Plan:
Points are awarded for responses that evidence:
One (1) page may be included as a cover sheet and/or cover letter or introduction. This will not be scored.
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 (Consultant Questionaire): Hi there, would you please provide a word document of the consultant questionnaire for ease of filling it out? Thank you
A: Hi. If you go to Section 12 in the Project Documents tab, you'll see the Consultant Questionnaire in .DOC format. Let me know if you don't see it.
Q (11X17 Org Chart): For evaluation criteria item 3 - Org chart, would you accept an 11X17 page size as the 1 page?
A: We cannot accept an 11x17 inch page for the org. chart. Per Section 8.6A Qualifications Submittal in the RFQ, all pages are to be 8.5x11 inches.
Q (WMBE Inclusion Plan): For evaluation criteria item 5 - WMBE Inclusion Plan, is this to be included solely on the Consultant Inclusion Plan Attachment 5? Or a section within the submittal IN ADDITION to the attachment 5 form?
A: This should be included solely in the WMBE Inclusion Plan Attachment 5. We are informing bidders that your plan will be evaluated and points will be awarded based on the bulleted items.
Q (No subject): On the Team Qualifications section, you state you'd like us to provide team members' resumes. Would SPU accept us providing 1-page resumes for key staff rather than all the staff provided in the organization chart in Section 3.
A: As stated in the RFQ, team member resumes are not included in the page count. That being said, yes, SPU would accept 1-page resumes for key staff.
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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