Invitation to Submit Professional Infrastructure Planning Qualifications to the Fort Ord Reuse Authority (“FORA”).  Services to be associated with the Central Coast California Veterans Cemetery (“CCCVC”) development.

The United States Department of Defense Office of Economic Adjustment (“OEA”) recently awarded a CCCVC area infrastructure planning grant to FORA.  This infrastructure planning will work from the draft CCCVC Development Master Plan, completed in 2008 by Royston, Hanamoto, Alley, & Abey, and funded by the County of Monterey, the City of Seaside, FORA, and the local jurisdictions.

FORA seeks these services to conduct infrastructure planning, which will result in bringing a State veterans' cemetery to the former Fort Ord.  With this in mind, this Request for Qualifications/Request for Proposals (“RFQ/RFP”) invites your firm to submit relevant team qualifications.  FORA will review qualifications submittals to determine the best suited firms/teams to respond by providing infrastructure planning proposals. 

RFQ submittals will be evaluated on the following factors:

1. Demonstrated prior experience in preparing access and roadway designs in suburban and rural settings;
2. Demonstrated experience in preparing reports for active or closed military communities;
3. Demonstrated experience in preparing cemetery phasing documents; and
4. Demonstrated experience in conducting successful public workshops related to cemetery planning.

The submitting consultant firm’s/team’s Statement of Qualifications (“SOQ”) should be structured to address the skills, experience, and abilities needed to complete this infrastructure planning work (as described in the attached Scope of Work).  In your SOQ, FORA requests that you provide:  1) qualifications, 2) examples of relevant experience providing similar services, 3) three past client references, and 4) a brief description of how the submitting firm/team would complete the tasks within a 13-month completion schedule.

Submitting firms/teams must provide three Statements of Qualifications to FORA as specifically described below by 12:00 noon on Friday, March 12, 2010.  For background information on the draft CCCVC Development Master Plan that FORA and local community previously completed, you may visit the following web-site:
http://www.ci.seaside.ca.us/index.aspx?page=211.  For background information on the Fort Ord Reuse Authority, you may visit the following web-site:  www.fora.org. 

Please limit your Statement of Qualifications to 25 pages or less.  All submittals should be on 8.5”x11” paper and unbound.  Please address a cover letter to the Statement of Qualifications to Mr. Jonathan Garcia, Senior Planner, and submit to the FORA offices at 100 12th Street, Bldg. 2880, Marina, California 93933.  FORA reserves the right to reject any and all Statements of Qualifications.

FORA will appoint a selection panel to review the SOQs, select a number of respondents to prepare proposals for further consideration, conduct interviews if such are needed to amplify on proposals, and make the final selection of the firm/team to recommend to the Executive Officer and the FORA Board. 

Please click here for CCCVC Infrastructure Planning Scope of Work