SLED Opportunity · CALIFORNIA · COUNTY OF SACRAMENTO
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County of Sacramento seeks Statements of Qualifications from specialty consulting firms for on-call architectural and engineering services for various county facilities. The pre-qualified list supports projects under $250,000 in consultant fees. Evaluation includes experience, location, references, and compliance certifications.
The County of Sacramento ("County") Department of General Services ("DGS") is soliciting Statements of Qualifications ("SOQ") from local specialty consulting firms (as listed under Section 3. Scope of Work), for the purpose of establishing a pre-qualified list for future projects. These projects encompass a wide variety of County owned and operated facilities including jails, youth detention facilities, courthouses, administration buildings, libraries, medical facilities, and parks and recreation facilities.
Qualified consultants may be hired to assist County engineers and architects in completing projects identified in the DGS Capital Improvements Plan.
Every three (3) years the Architectural Services Division ("ASD") advertises for architectural, engineering and specialty consultant firms interested in doing work for the County. The result of the solicitation establishes pre-qualified firms to work on on-call discipline specific Board approved projects.
The new pre-qualified list will be used primarily for architectural and engineering design projects where the specific disciplines may be required and consultant fees are estimated at less than $250,000. See Section 3. Scope of Work for a list of disciplines solicited under this Request for Qualifications ("RFQual"). Consultants are not guaranteed work either implied or presumed related to this RFQual.
As County staff develops preliminary project scopes and estimates of the approved work, the County's project manager will initiate consultant agreements as-needed by requesting a proposal that defines the scope of work, maximum cost, schedule, terms of payments, deliverables, work site, personnel or subconsultant(s) to be utilized (where applicable), and other pertinent details. Upon approval of the consultant's proposal, an authorization will be issued to the selected consultant.
Addendum No.1 - 2026-PURB RFQual-0025 - Request for Qualifications: On-Call Specific Consultant Disciplines
Does the Responder’s team meet the required mileage requirement for Prime and subconsultants?
Did the Responder or select subconsultants meet the Requirement for hourly response but not necessarily mileage response?
How many years has the Responder been practicing the discipline submitted?
Did Responder demonstrate applicable experience of management and key staff?
Did Responder submit details for projects that demonstrate experience with Sacramento County and/or other public agencies?
Do the sample projects and overall experience match the discipline(s) of this RFQual?
Rate the Responder’s references and overall impression
Valid for three-year term if agreement is awarded.
By selecting the confirm box below, this organization attests to reviewing all of the Questions and Answers posted on the OpenGov platform prior to submitting an SOQ.
Did you read through and confirm that you met all of the RFQ requirements?
"I hereby certify that the Contractor/Consultant firm employs five or more full-time employees. “Full-time”, as defined by the Internal Revenue Service, means persons employed for 20 or more hours per week, and excludes temporary employees whose term of employment will be less than one (1) month. This certification satisfies the Internal Revenue Service criteria for treatment of the above-named consultant as an independent contractor, not an employee for tax withholding purposes."
WHEREAS it is in the best interest of Sacramento County that those entities with whom the County does business demonstrate financial responsibility, integrity and lawfulness, it is inequitable for those entities with whom the County does business to receive County funds while failing to pay court-ordered child, family and spousal support which shifts the support of their dependents onto the public treasury.
Therefore, in order to assist the Sacramento County Department of Child Support Services in its efforts to collect unpaid court-ordered child, family and spousal support orders, the following certification must be provided by all entities with whom the County does business:
Contractor/Consultant hereby certifies that either:
New Contract/Consultant shall certify that each of the following statements is true:
a. Contractor/Consultant has fully complied with all applicable state and federal reporting requirements relating to employment reporting for its employees; and
b. Contractor/Consultant has fully complied with all lawfully served wage and earnings assignment orders and notices of assignment and will continue to maintain compliance.
NOTE: Failure to comply with state and federal reporting requirements regarding a Contractor's employees or failure to implement lawfully served wage and earnings assignment orders or notices of assignment constitutes a default under the contract; and failure to cure the default within 90 days of notice by the County shall be grounds for termination of the contract. Principal Owners can contact the Sacramento Department of Child Support Services at 1-866-901-3212, by writing to P.O. Box 269112, Sacramento, 95826-9112, or via the Customer Connect website at www.childsup.ca.gov .
(California Public Contract Code, sections 2202-2208)
When responding to a bid or proposal or executing a contract or renewal for a County of Sacramento contract for goods or services of $1,000,000 or more, a vendor must either:
To comply with this requirement, please select one of the options below. Please note: California law establishes penalties for providing false certifications, including civil penalties equal to the greater of $250,000 or twice the amount of the contract for which the false certification was made; contract termination; and three-year ineligibility to bid on contracts. (Public Contract Code section 2205.)
OPTION #1 - CERTIFICATION
I certify I am duly authorized to execute this certification on behalf of the vendor/financial institution, and the vendor/financial institution is not on the current list of persons engaged in investment activities in Iran created by DGS and is not a financial institution extending twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) or more in credit to another person/vendor, for 45 days or more, if that other person/vendor will use the credit to provide goods or services in the energy sector in Iran and is identified on the current list of persons engaged in investment activities in Iran created by DGS.
OPTION #2 – EXEMPTION
Pursuant to Public Contract Code sections 2203(c) and (d), a public entity may permit a vendor/financial institution engaged in investment activities in Iran, on a case-by-case basis, to be eligible for, or to bid on, submit a proposal for, or enters into or renews, a contract for goods and services. If you have obtained an exemption from the certification requirement under the Iran Contracting Act, please select "EXEMPTION" below, and attach documentation demonstrating the exemption approval with your electronic submission.
Provide your SAM.gov Unique Entity ID (UEI). If your firm does not have a UEI, go to: https://sam.gov/content/entity-registration to obtain one.
I, attest, that we are uploading a complete SOQ for at least one discipline below. ***Do not include your rate sheet in this section.***
Upload your complete SOQ here. Do not include your Rate Sheet in this section.
Upload your complete SOQ here. Do not include your Rate Sheet in this section.
Upload your complete SOQ here. Do not include your Rate Sheet in this section.
Upload your complete SOQ here. Do not include your Rate Sheet in this section.
Upload your rate sheet here. Confirm that your rate sheet is not attached with your SOQ and is attached separately here.
The County will treat all information submitted in an SOQ as available for public inspection once the County has awarded a contract. If you believe that you have a legally justifiable basis under the California Public Records Act (Government Code section 6250 et. seq.) for protecting the confidentiality of any information contained within your SOQ, you must identify any such information, together with the legal basis of your claim in your SOQ, and present such information in this section as part of your SOQ response package. The final determination of whether the County will assert a Responder's claim of confidentiality shall be at the sole discretion of the County. Click "file upload" below to upload any SOQ documents you consider to be confidential documents.
If proposing any exceptions to the County's Sample Agreement (Attachment A), upload a redlined revision of the Sample Agreement attached to this solicitation here. Any submissions are for negotiation purposes only.
*If no exceptions are proposed, please skip this question.
Signatory: name, title, email
Contract manager/admin: name, phone, email
Please provide the name and e-mail for a finance point-of-contact for your firm that will receive an invitation to complete the vendor registration process on the County's PaymentWorks portal.
To clarify, if you are set-up with other agencies using PaymentWorks, that information is not available to the County, so you must complete this process for the County.
Do you want to show evaluation criteria scores/weights in the solicitation? This question refers to the points or weights given to each criterion, not the actual scores that the evaluation panel assigns during evaluation.
Are Proposers responding to an electronic pricing table?
Select "yes" if you are providing a pricing template as part of your solicitation.
Select "no" if you are asking Proposers to submit their own hourly rate sheet.
If "yes" Proposers will be required to complete the Iran Contracting Act Certification.
Q (No subject): We respectfully ask the County to clarify whether retainage will be withheld under this contract. If so, at what percentage and when will it be released.
A: See Sample Agreement Exhibit D 17.B. No retainage will be held by the County.
Q (Questions): Will the selected consultant be expected to manage profiling, transportation, and/or disposal of CERCLA/RCRA hazardous waste associated with projects issued under this on-call? Will the selected contractor be expected to take responsibility for any wastes associated with this on-call? Is the cover letter part of the 12-page requirement.
A: The consultant will be expected to assist with managing, recommending, testing waste for possible disposal into a Class 1 Hazardous Facility. Disposal will depend on consultant’s waste characterization analysis that includes identifying, quantifying, and suggestions where the County can dispose waste if testing hazardous. In most cases, the contractor and owner will take responsibility for all hazardous RCRA waste during consultants on-call. In very rare cases, i.e., waste rinse water used to service an on-call or soil sampling ends, consultant will be responsible for disposal of rinse water or soil waste using County’s EPA ID and priced into the proposal. Yes, cover letter is part of the 12 page requirement.
Q (Page Count Exclusions): Could you please confirm that the 12-page SOQ limit excludes the cover letter, tabs/dividers, cover pages, and table of contents?
A: The 12 page SOQ limit includes table of contents and cover letter. Excludes tabs/dividers.
Q (SOQ Submission Structure): Can you please confirm whether respondents may submit a single SOQ covering multiple service categories, or if separate SOQs are required for each service category?
A: Separate SOQs are required for each category.
Q (2 Questions): 1) Does the cover letter count toward the 12-page limit for the SOQ? 2) Curious about the statement, “The County reserves the right to check other references not provided by the Responder.” in section 5, 5.2, number 5. Where will the county get these references if not provided by the firm?
A: 1. Yes, the cover letter counts toward the 12-page limit. 2. The County may contact additional references beyond those listed in the SOQ to ensure a complete assessment of a firm’s past performance. These references may include other public agencies or entities for which the firm has performed similar work, based on the County’s prior experience, project records, or publicly available information.
Q (Scope of Work): Can we propose just for Special Inspection and Geotechnical Engineering? Or, is the County looking for one firm to perform the entire Scope of work?
A: Yes, you may propose just for Special Inspection and Geotechnical Engineering.
Q (Due Date extension): Due to the requirement to provide a separate SOQ for each area of service, would the County consider extending the due date?
A: Please see Addendum 1 issued 04/06/2026.
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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