Browns field Consultant Services

The vendor is required to provide browns field consultant services for to receive grant funds to inventory and assess hazardous substance and petroleum brownfield sites community-wide.
1. Competitive agreement oversight
•    A project manager will ensure compliance with grant requirements. 
•    Tasks include oversight and performance reporting. 
•    Three people will attend agency national brownfields training conference to learn best practices and identify ways to leverage federal resources. 
•    Key residential and business leaders will be asked to participate on a project steering committee. 
•    Two project teams – a community engagement team and a technical team – will be established to implement the project.
2. Procuring contractors 
•    Establish a selection committee that includes key players in environmental advocacy, economic development and members of the targeted area. 
•    Create and advertise RFP.  
•    The committee will review and rank proposals, select contractors to interview and select final contractors based on committee rankings and interview outcomes.
3. Community engagement: 
•    City staff will lead the community engagement team. 
•    Citizens will be involved in determining secondary sites, if needed, and reuse options. 
•    City will connect with the community through quarterly meetings, newsletters, web sites, social media, and other outreach tools. 
•    The city will also partner with franklin county health department to assess the impact of brownfields on public health. 
•    City will use the agency for toxic substances and disease registry (ATSDR) brownfields and land revitalization action model to foster community dialogue. 
•    City staff and their contractors will manage the engagement process. 
4. Site city, assessment, cleanup and reuse planning: 
•    City will initiate and assessments the city plans to conduct assessments, in the targeted areas. 
•    These activities will be conducted by qualified environmental professionals and preceded with approved quality assurance project plans (QAPP). 
•    Lead – procured environmental contractors will ensure that all activities meet ATSM standards and comply with the all-appropriate inquiries final rule.  
•    Cleanup and reuse planning: cleanup and reuse plans will be developed by qualified experts, with significant input from the community. 
•    Proposed activities include: development of an analysis of brownfields cleanup alternatives (ABCA) for sites to be remediated; an infrastructure needs assessment to identify upgrades required to support growth; an area-wide land use plan that considers cleanup strategies for high priority brownfield sites, adaptive reuse of historic buildings, green infrastructure, energy efficiency, and complete streets; and an implementation strategy with business recruitment approaches, identification of public and private revitalization resources
5. Health monitoring: 
•    Department on board as part of a steering committee to conduct health screenings throughout the targeted areas and monitor public health throughout the life of the grant and after grant closure.

- Contract Period/Term: 3 years