Summary of Specifications:
The City is soliciting responses from qualified environmental consulting firms to provide professional environmental services. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) awarded the City $200,000 for hazardous substances and $200,000 for petroleum substances, which has been combined into a single $400,000 grant project for implementation purposes. Approximately $350,000 remains available. The anticipated start date is March, 2013. The City anticipates completing expenditure of the funds in 2014. The term of this award is one year, with the option to renew for an additional one-year period, or as needed to complete the term of the agreement with USEPA. The primary focus of the consultant services is the preparation of environmental assessments for individual properties in areas of the city targeted for reinvestment. It is estimated that the number of assessments and related activities will be: 30 – Phase I assessments 9 – Phase II assessments and related cleanup plans 3 – Community Meetings 40 – One-on-one meetings with property owners The consultant(s) will attend the community meetings with the City and project partner, Wheat Ridge 2020 (WR2020, a nonprofit community and economic development corporation), to explain the concept of environmental assessments as related to real estate transitions and public health issues. The consultant’s role in these public meetings will be to explain the specifics of Phase I and II assessments and to answer questions from the audience regarding the assessment process and how the findings of an assessment are used. Lastly, the consultant(s) will attend approximately 40, one-on-one, meetings with the City, WR2020, and individual property owners interested in participating in the assessment process for their property(ies).
