{"content":[{"text":"REQUEST FOR STATEMENTS OF QUALIFICATIONS \n FOR DESIGN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES","bbox":{"left":0.25768,"top":0.070758,"width":0.48430299999999993,"height":0.038313}},{"text":"The Central Utah Water Conservancy District (“District”) is requesting general Statements of \n Qualifications (SOQ) from Architectural and Engineering Firms to provide analysis, evaluation, \n consulting and/or design services for miscellaneous future District projects where the design professional \n fees are estimated to be less than $250,000. The result of this request will be to create an approved vendor \n list called the Prequalified Design Professional List from which the District may procure design \n professional services through a simplified evaluation, selection and fee negotiation process.","bbox":{"left":0.082353,"top":0.123162,"width":0.835653,"height":0.10733300000000001}},{"text":"BACKGROUND","bbox":{"left":0.082353,"top":0.245025,"width":0.14352899999999996,"height":0.020863999999999994}},{"text":"The Central Utah Water Conservancy District has been in existence for over 50 years and constructs, \n operates and maintains many facilities located throughout the eight counties it serves. Many of its \n projects are large, requiring extensive design professional services. As a political subdivision of the State \n of Utah, the District follows the guidelines for securing design professional services found in the District \n Purchasing Policy and the Utah Procurement Code, which require public notice, a request for proposals, a \n formal evaluation committee and a negotiated contract based on demonstrated competence. However, for \n smaller projects, the District Purchasing Policy also permits a direct award to design professional firms \n that are identified on an approved vendor list (a.k.a., Prequalified Design Professional List), provided \n other requirements are met as described in this document.","bbox":{"left":0.082353,"top":0.278465,"width":0.835595,"height":0.15964299999999998}},{"text":"Due to the length of time that the District has operated, some of its facilities are aging and are in need of \n improvement, repair or replacement. Because many of these projects are smaller, they often require \n design professional services which are within the threshold of the $250,000 per project. In order to \n simplify acquiring these services, the District can utilize a procurement process outlined under its Small \n Purchases Vendor Prequalification clause for obtaining such services by creating a Prequalified Design \n Professional List. While aimed at smaller improvement, repair or replacement projects, the Prequalified \n Design Professional List may also be used for new projects, provided that the cost of the design \n professional services falls within the guidelines defined.","bbox":{"left":0.082353,"top":0.451381,"width":0.835517,"height":0.14220700000000003}},{"text":"DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES","bbox":{"left":0.082353,"top":0.606604,"width":0.311745,"height":0.020863999999999994}},{"text":"Prequalified Design Professional List: As outlined in the District Purchasing Policy, the procurement \n process for design professional services whose cost is within the threshold of $250,000 per project, may \n include the direct negotiation and award of a contract to a design professional that has qualified for \n inclusion on a Prequalified Design Professional List.","bbox":{"left":0.082353,"top":0.640043,"width":0.835634,"height":0.07248500000000002}},{"text":"Furthermore, the District may, by following its purchasing policy based on the procedure described in \n Sections 63G-6a-410 and 63G-6a-507 of the Utah Procurement Code, prequalify potential firms and \n develop a Prequalified Design Professional List and then limit participation in a design professional \n procurement process to firms chosen from that list.","bbox":{"left":0.082353,"top":0.727164,"width":0.835506,"height":0.072523}},{"text":"A Prequalified Design Professional List is created through following a defined process which includes: \n advertising for and requesting a statement of qualifications from interested firms; indicating the type of \n services to be procured and the type of firm that is sought; outlining the minimum mandatory \n requirements and the evaluation criteria to be used to select firms to be included on the list; and indicating \n the type of list (“open-ended” or “closed-ended”) being created.","bbox":{"left":0.082353,"top":0.814323,"width":0.8354280000000001,"height":0.08990399999999998}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}