THE CITY OF SEATTLE
SEATTLE CITY LIGHT DEPARTMENT
REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS
for
On-Call Engineering Professional Services

The City of Seattle, Seattle City Light Department (“SCL”), seeks to engage a consultant to provide consulting services: The City of Seattle, through the Seattle City Light Department (SCL), requests qualifications from qualified engineering firms to provide On-Call Engineering Professional Services for capital project work implemented by the Seattle City Light Strategic Plan. This work will be done as a series of task orders.  It is the intention of SCL to select multiple consultants and develop general contracts for On-Call Engineering with all the consultants. Specific task orders will be developed with individual consultants based on expertise and performance by the consultant.  HUB/WMBE firms are encouraged to respond.

SCL is seeking qualified firms to provide the following:

The term of the contract shall extend from the date of execution by the Superintendent of Seattle City Light, or designee, through June 30, 2019.  City Light has identified a budget for this project but estimates the contract to be $750,000. 

SCL, may at it’s option amend the original contract for scope, time, and funding, subject to the continuing appropriation authority by the Seattle City Council. 

OBTAINING RFQ DOCUMENTS:  Documents are available online at http://www.ebidexchange.com/seattle.  Consultants must complete a free registration prior to viewing, printing and saving to their own equipment at no cost, or ordering full or partial document sets and/or CDs through the Web site.  For help using this site, or to order documents if you are unable to access the Web site, please call eBid Systems at 206-855-8430 or toll-free at 1-888-291-8430. Free internet access to obtain these documents is available at SeattleNeighborhoodServiceCenters and most public libraries. 

Submittal (electronic copies, 15 pages maximum) must be delivered by 12:00pm (PDT) on 04-12-2013, to the email address below:

Seattle City Light
Procurement & Contracting Division
Attention: Ricky Carlos, SMT 3004
Ricardo.carlos@seattle.gov

The City’s proposed schedule is outlined in the RFQ.
The contract that is awarded as a result of this RFQ will be awarded in a manner that will comply with all applicable laws of the United States, State of Washington, the City Charter, and Ordinances of the City of Seattle.

“WOMEN AND MINORITY AFFIRMATIVE EFFORTS REQUIREMENTS: All proposals are required to meet the Affirmative Efforts requirements as specified in the RFQ/RFP.  An Outreach Plan will be required for the top rated consultant(s).”                                                               

“WOMEN AND MINORITY AFFIRMATIVE EFFORTS REQUIREMENTS: All proposals are required to meet the Affirmative Efforts requirements as specified in the RFQ/RFP.  An Outreach Plan will be required for the top rated consultant(s).”