A477 Resilient Port Solutions

The vendor is required to provide multidiscipline consulting firms or teams, with proven experience to provide professional services including planning and design-related services, on an on-call, as needed basis.
1. Programming and review of existing conditions: 
• The authority seeks to plan, review options, design and permit permanent flood protection measures at ports. 
• The existing conditions must be reviewed from a long-term resiliency perspective and a clear scope of work must be developed to move forward into preliminary design. 
• A decision on the schematic options will be made during this first phase. 
2. Preliminary design: 
• Preliminary design is anticipated to include preparation of concept designs and concept cost estimates, which will be formalized into a concept design report. 
• The consulting team will prepare preliminary designs in BIM, to a suitable design level for permit applications. 
• The team will also prepare a phased design schedule and an anticipated construction schedule, and a preliminary cost estimate for the work. 
• Attention and priority should be given to agency initiative and sustainable design strategies as outlined in the agency sustainability design guidelines. 
• The team will meet with agency to present its findings. 
3. Permitting: 
• The consultant shall work with the agency senior resiliency manager to coordinate the environmental permitting process. 
• This task is anticipated to include preparation of a draft plan, and a project permitting narrative to begin engaging with permitting agencies. 
4. Waterfront engineering/utilities: 
• As previously noted, the properties border harbor. 
• Structural revetments, stormwater management and drainage will need to be carefully considered. 
• It will be expected that the consultant(s) are responsible for addressing this issue in the study. 
5. Sustainable design, resiliency, net-zero elements, nature-based solutions: 
• The authority places high value in sustainable design, resilience, nature-based solutions and actively strives to achieve net-zero emissions. 
• The prospective consultant(s) will be expected to consider a creative approach to the development of the design options for this project to improve innovative elimination of carbon emissions and air quality improvements and management, permitting, infrastructure resiliency and sustainability.
6. Accessibility and code compliance: 
• Any flood protection system must be fully accessible. 
• A detailed review of the existing conditions from a code perspective and the development of a detailed plan for code compliance will be fundamental for the successful completion of this study.
7. Traffic engineering: 
• There is a lot of activity in the ports with cranes, vehicles, parking and container storage. 
• The prospective design team will need to understand these traffic modes and movements to address these issues.
8. Grant submission support: 
• The consultant must be able to advise on applicable grant opportunities and able to prepare grant submission(s) upon the request of the authority.
9. On-call technical support: 
• There may be other locations that require interventions. 
• The consultant will be requested to provide on-call technical assistance.
- Contract Period/Term: 3 years
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: June 23, 2025