Month: November 2021

The City of Shamokin is seeking a qualified environmental consultant with the capacity to conduct and prepare Phase I and Phase II Assessments, Remedial Action Plans, Quality Assurance Project Plans, and Sampling and Analysis Plans to provide environmental professional services to implement the City of Shamokin U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) Community-Wide Brownfields Assessment Grants Project. In 2021, the U.S. EPA awarded the city a $300,000 Community-Wide Brownfield Assessment Grant for hazardous substances.

Download the SEDA-COG RFP for Shamokin QEP with Attachment for more details.

Question and Answers

1. 1. Under #4 would a list of current U.S. EPA contracts be acceptable to fulfill this item? For a team, to list all contracts could be an exceptional large list, much of which would not be relevant to this type of work. Also, the RFP asks for contacts for every contract and separately requests references under #7. Would it be acceptable to only list the client name under #4 and provide specific references with full contact information under #7? The only difference is in #4 we are asking for references of clients that you are currently working with, and #7 would be previous professional engagements. I certainly don’t need your entire list, of course. If you provide a few for each, and then state that a full list would be available upon request, that is adequate.
   
2. 2. Under #5 Example Remediation Documents – Can you please provide more clarification of what you require? Remedial documents are typically hundreds, if not thousands of pages per report. Could we provide example documents via a single USB drive to eliminate a lot of printing and shipping expenses? If you provide executive summaries and merely state that full reports available upon request, that would certainly be acceptable for me!
   
3. 3. Upon our review of the RFQ, I was wondering if you could please provide us with some guidance on what types of remediation documents that the City of Shamokin is interested at reviewing as part of our response to the RFQ? I know that the city is going to face remediation needs such a lead paint, asbestos, waste management – amongst others. If you could just provide a few executive summaries of remediation plans with the wording that full reports are available upon request, that would be sufficient for our needs.
   
4. I was trying to locate a copy of the June 26, 2020 Shamokin Brownfields inventory grant final end of project report prepared by AECOM – is this available? Please see this document attached.

Dates of Publication: November 15th and 18th, 2021
Contact: Angie Kemberling, (570) 524-4491

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

Snyder County is requesting proposals for the purchase of Professional Engineering Services.
These services include all necessary design and specifications for the bidding of and contracting
for the Snyder County Courthouse HVAC Retrofitting Project. Complete proposal details, including
the required proposal format, may be obtained by contacting:

Angie Kemberling, Program Assistant
SEDA-COG
201 Furnace Road
Lewisburg, PA 17837

Proposals will be accepted until 2:00 pm prevailing time, December 13, 2021, at which time they will be publicly opened at SEDA-Council of Governments, 201 Furnace Road Lewisburg, PA 17837.  Proposals shall be on the forms required, sealed, and clearly marked on the outside, “HVAC Retrofitting Engineering Services Proposal“, and submitted to:

Angie Kemberling, Program Assistant
SEDA-COG
201 Furnace Road
Lewisburg, PA 17837

Due to the nature of this project, Snyder County will hold a pre-bid meeting at 11:00 am on November 16th, 2021, for engineering firms interested in submitting a project proposal to the Commissioners. Any questions that arise after the pre-bid meeting can be addressed to Angie Kemberling; akemberling@seda-cog.org. Engineers will have this time to tour the project site and get a better understanding of the project. This meeting is not mandatory.

Proposals that are faxed or e-mailed to SEDA-COG cannot be accepted.

REQUEST FOR QUOTATIONS

The City of Shamokin is seeking quotations for the services of a consultant (or team of consultants) to undertake a Comprehensive Plan and to update the current Zoning Ordinance to ensure compliance. Additionally, the firm must then overhaul and develop a complete and sound Zoning Ordinance in conjunction with the Comprehensive Plan. The Comprehensive Plan must meet the requirements of Article III of the PA MPC and utilize the Department of Community and Economic Development’s implementable plan approach. The plan will be strategic and will outline workable action plans, means of financing, and capacity to implement.

This project is being financed in part by the Economic Development and Community Development Initiatives grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Department of Community Economic Development. Required proposal format details may be obtained by contacting:

Betsy Kramer, Revitalization Coordinator
SEDA-COG
201 Furnace Road
Lewisburg, PA 17837

Proposals will be accepted until 11 a.m. prevailing time, November 30, 2021, at which time they will be publicly opened at SEDA-Council of Governments, 201 Furnace Road, Lewisburg, PA.

Proposals shall be on the forms required, sealed and clearly marked on the outside, “Zoning Update, Comprehensive Plan & Zoning Rewrite,” and submitted to:

Betsy Kramer, Revitalization Coordinator
SEDA-COG
201 Furnace Road
Lewisburg, PA 17837

Proposals that are faxed or e-mailed to SEDA-COG cannot be accepted.

RFQ Zoning Update Comp Plan and Zoning Rewirite_11.02.21