NOTICE FOR CONSULTING SERVICES
Notice is hereby given by the West Virginia Department of Transportation, Division of Highways, that consulting services will be utilized for six-year inspection projects, per the current National Bridge Inspection Standards and may include design plans for repairs, for the following projects:
1) Six-year inspection project for Arch A. Moore, Jr. Bridge, State Project No. T626-2-0.02 00, over the Ohio River. The bridge consists of fourteen spans, one steel through arch span and thirteen steel beam spans with an overall length of 2,623 feet. The roadway width is 59 feet.
2) Six-year inspection project for Court/Leon Sullivan Way and Brooks Street Bridges, State Project No. T620-77-100.00 00. The project consists of the following bridges:
a) Court Street I-77 Approach Ramp (Ramp D) over U.S.D.A. Farmers’ Market. The bridge consists of three steel box beam spans with an overall length of 289 feet. The roadway width is 24 feet 6 inches.
b) Leon Sullivan Way I-77 Exit Ramp (Ramp E) over Piedmont Road, Northern and Southern Railroad, Smith Street and Leon Sullivan Way. The bridge consists of eleven steel box girder spans with an overall length of 929 feet. The roadway width is 30 feet 6 inches.
c) Leon Sullivan Way I-77 Exit Ramp (Ramp F) over I-77, Ramp G, Piedmont Road, Northern and Southern Railroad, Smith Street. The bridge consists of twelve steel box girder spans with an overall length of 1,350 feet. The roadway width is 20 feet 6 inches.
d) Brooks Street I-77 Approach Ramp (Ramp G) over I-77 and Piedmont Road. The bridge consists of four steel box beam spans with an overall length of 522 feet. The roadway width is 21 feet 6 inches.
e) Brooks Street I-77 Approach Ramp (Ramp H) over Piedmont Road. The bridge consists of four steel box beam spans with an overall length of 478 feet. The roadway width is 21 feet 6 inches.
f) Brooks Street I-77 Approach Ramp (Ramp GH) over Smith Street, Brooks Street and Northern and Southern Railroad. The bridge consists of seven steel box beam spans with an overall length of 825 feet. The roadway width is 20 feet 6 inches.
3) Six-year inspection project for CPL Thomas Bennett Memorial Bridge, State Project No. T631-79-149.41 00, over the Monongahela River, CSX and Monongalia Railroads and county routes. The bridge consists of nine spans, a three-span continuous deck truss, three continuous deck girder spans and three continuous deck stringer spans with an overall length of 1,550 feet. The roadway is 97 feet.
4) Six-year inspection project for Jennings Randolph Bridge, State Project No. T615-30-0.02 00, The project consists of the following bridges:
a) Ramp A North over a back channel of the Ohio River and River Road in Ohio. The structure is a two-span continuous, welded plate girder bridge with an overall length of 460 feet. The roadway width is 26 feet 6 inches.
b) Westbound Ramp over a back channel of the Ohio River and River Road in Ohio. The structure is a four span, welded plate girder bridge with an overall length of 778 feet. The roadway width varies from 29 feet 6 inches to 38 feet 6 inches.
c) Eastbound Ramp and Ramp B over a back channel of the Ohio River and River Road in Ohio. The Eastbound Ramp is a four span, welded plate girder bridge with an overall length of 783 feet. The roadway width varies from 38 feet 6 inches to 29 feet 6 inches. Ramp B is a one span, welded plate girder with a span length of 163 feet. The roadway width is 26 feet 6 inches.
5) Six-year inspection project for Market Street Bridge, State Project No. T605-2-0.01 00, over the Ohio River. The bridge consists of nine spans, the three main spans (Spans Seven through Nine) are cable-suspended with stiffening through Warren truss. The west approach consists of two deck girder spans (Spans One and Two) and a four-span (Spans Three through Six) steel through truss which is a quadrangular Warren with verticals. The overall length of the structure is 1,794’-2” with a roadway width of 21’-8”.
6) Six-year inspection project for Silver Memorial Bridge, State Project No. T627-35-17.97 00, over the Ohio River. The bridge consists of five spans, a three-span steel cantilever through truss and two steel beam spans with an overall length of 1,961 feet. The roadway is 60 feet.
7) Six-year inspection project for Veterans Memorial Bridge, State Project No. T605-22-0.03 00, over the Ohio River. The bridge consists of 6 spans, two continuous cable stayed suspension spans and four continuous welded plate girder spans with an overall length of 1,965 feet. The roadway width is 81 feet.
8) Six-year inspection project for Wheeling Suspension Bridge State Project No. T635-251-0.07 00, is a 1,307'-6" long, single span steel suspension bridge carrying WV Route 251 over the Ohio River. The structure has a 20'-0" wide roadway, with a 4'-2" wide sidewalk on each side of the structure.
9) Six-year inspection project for Wilbur Lee Clayton Memorial Bridge State Project No. T616-48-123.64 00, over Clifford Hollow Run. The bridge consists of 6 continuous span steel plate girder spans with an overall length of 1,535 feet. The roadway width is 70 feet.
10) Six-year inspection project for Williamstown Marietta (WV31) Bridge State Project No. T654-31-19.04 00, over the Ohio River and city streets. The bridge consists of two span steel thru truss and ten continuous steel deck girder spans with an overall length of 2,497 feet. The roadway width is 30 feet.
Additional information may be obtained on each bridge by contacting Chad Robinson, Maintenance Division, Evaluation Section at (304) 558-9544 or via e‑mail at Chad.E.Robinson@wv.gov.
The above projects are currently scheduled for work to begin in 2018. Single or multiple assignments may be made for this work.
Several of these structures are located on routes in urban and extremely high ADTT areas that will mandate traffic disruption. Progressive and innovative methods of inspection access will be considered in the selection process.
Firms interested in being considered for this project must submit a letter of interest and unpriced prospectus to Mr. Kyle Stollings, Director, Maintenance Division, West Virginia Division of Highways, Building Five, Room A-350, 1900 Kanawha Boulevard, East, Charleston, West Virginia 25305-0430 or via e-mail to DOHMaintenanceLOQ@wv.gov prior to 4:00 p.m., May 26, 2017.
As a minimum, the prospectus will include the following items for evaluation:
1) A completed copy of the Division’s Consultant Confidential Qualification Questionnaire, if not already on file, dated January 1, 2017 or later.
2) Overall capabilities to perform the work, including workforce available to assign to the project, personnel qualifications, and present workload.
3) Location of office in which the work will be performed.
4) Type of work anticipated to be sub-contracted or performed by a sub-consultant.
5) Indication of whether a cost accounting system has been maintained and is in effect such that it is capable of segregating and identifying accumulating costs for each job that is performed under cost type projects.
6) A completed copy of the Division’s Short List Selection Criteria Technical Evaluation form limited to a single page of data. Cross-referencing on this form to other parts of the prospectus is not acceptable.
7) Indication of the project(s) for which the firm is submitting information for consideration. If the submission is for all projects, a statement to that effect shall be made and a detailed listing shall not be required.
Prior to entering into contract negotiations, the selected firm and any sub-consultants shall submit a current audited overhead rate computation performed by a state or federal government agency or independent CPA firm. The submitted overhead audit shall contain a detailed exhibit of the computations with all applicable eliminations and references.
The audit shall be done in accordance with Government Auditing Standards issued by the Comptroller General of the United States and all eliminations required by the Federal Acquisitions Regulations will be made. This requirement will be waived for the selected firm or any sub-consultant when its portion of the fee for the project is less than One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00). In such instances, a company computed overhead rate may be utilized.
A single letter of interest and unpriced prospectus is required regardless of the number of projects requested by the firm for consideration.
It is the policy of the West Virginia Department of Transportation, Division of Highways that disadvantaged and women-owned business enterprises shall have the maximum opportunity to participate in the performance of contracts financed in whole or in part with federal funds.