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 five projects:

1) 2nd Lt. Theodore R. Woo Memorial Bridge (formerly South Charleston-Dunbar Bridge Westbound), State Project No. T620-64-53.27 00, over the Kanawha River. The bridge consists of fourteen continuous welded deck girder spans with an overall length of 2,383 feet in length. The roadway width is 72 feet.

2) Donald Legg Memorial Bridge, State Project No. T640-64-43.78 00, over the Kanawha River. The bridge consists of four spans, three cantilevered through truss spans and one multi-girder span with an overall length of 1,400 feet. The roadway is 30 feet in each direction.

3) Guyandotte River Overpass Bridges, State Project No. T606-64-17.45 00, over the Guyandotte River. The structure consists of dual bridges with fourteen spans each (five continuous steel beam spans, four continuous steel girder spans, four continuous steel beam spans and one simple steel beam span) with an overall length of 1,236 feet. The roadway width is 31 feet in each direction.

4) Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge, State Project No. T635-470-0.01 00, over the Ohio River. The project consists of a single span steel tied arch with an overall length of 780 feet. The roadway width is 41 feet in each direction.

5) SFC Terrance N. Gentry Memorial Bridges (formerly Man Bridges), State Project No. T623-10-8.64 00, over the Guyandotte River. The structure consists of dual bridges with twelve continuous welded deck girder spans with an overall length of 2,215 feet Southbound and 2,210 feet Northbound. The roadway width is 32 feet in each direction.

Additional information may be obtained on each bridge by contacting Brent Belcher, Maintenance Division, Evaluation Section at (304) 558-9655 or by email at Brent.A.Belcher@wv.gov.

The above projects are currently scheduled for work to begin in 2013. 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 un-priced 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 prior to 4:00 p.m., January 4, 2013.

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, 2012 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 un-priced 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.