Title/Name/Summary
John Humphrey Drive at 143rd Street Intersection, Phase II - Final Design Engineering Services, Consultant Recommendation
History
A Request for Qualifications (RFQ) was issued by the Village to consulting engineering firms for Phase II - Final Design Engineering Services for the John Humphrey Drive at 143rd Street Intersection. The RFQ was released on August 3, 2021, and responses were due on August 24, 2021. The project includes significant intersection improvements, including travel lane additions at the John Humphrey Drive at 143rd Street intersection and removal and replacement of the existing eastbound bridge. This bridge has been settling over the last several years.
The Phase I - Preliminary Design Engineering Services were completed by Patrick Engineering of Lisle, Illinois and approved by the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) in the second quarter of 2021. Since Federal funds will be used for Phase II - Final Design Engineering Services, the Quality Based Selection (QBS) process, as previously approved by IDOT and the Village Board of Trustees, was used to complete the RFQ process. The QBS process requires that the consultants be selected based on qualifications only. The QBS process prohibits the Village from collecting professional engineering fees until all of the firms who responded to the RFQ are ranked. The professional fees and scope of services can be negotiated only with the top-ranked firm. If the negotiations are not successful with the top-ranked firm, the negotiations can be initiated with the second-ranked firm, and so on until negotiations are successfully completed.
The following ten (10) firms responded to RFQ:
1. AECOM Technical Services, Inc.
2. BLA, Inc.
3. Bowman Consulting Group, Ltd.
4. Ciorba Group, Inc.
5. Civiltech Engineering, Inc.
6. Patrick Engineering, Inc.
7. Robinson Engineering, Ltd.
8. Strand Associates, Inc.
9. Transystems Corporation
10. V3 Companies, Ltd.
Staff ranked the RFQ respo...
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