This is an on-call, open-ended contract for as-needed professional services, primarily transportation and traffic consulting services. The scope and fee will be determined separately for each assignment prior to notice to proceed (NTP). At the direction of the City, project scopes may include, but not be limited to, the following core service areas: • Provide surveying services, construction design, and corresponding civil engineers cost estimate, including but not limited to, complete drawings and plans. • Transportation planning, including, but not limited to, sub-area and corridor studies as well as associated modeling, feasibility studies, and long-range plan development • Transportation engineering, operations, and studies • Bicycle and pedestrian planning, bike/pedestrian counts, studies, design, and project development • Comprehensive, small area, and corridor land use planning services • Assistance to the City in the application and completion of funding grants • Attendance and presentations at neighborhood public meetings, public hearings, and planning board, council, and other meetings as required • Engineering, design, planning, permitting, environmental studies, cost estimation, contract administration, inspection, and testing work associated with locally administered transportation infrastructure projects that are locally, Cabarrus Rowan Metropolitan Planning Organization (CRMPO), state, or federally funded • Construction contract inspections • National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) environmental studies • Preparation and acquirement of required permit/environmental letters from agencies/municipalities • Consultation with individual property owners on design, location, and access questions • Coordination with applicable local, state, regional, and federal agencies • Preparation of computerized visualization/3-D modeling of design information suitable for use at public input opportunities as well as for placement on project websites • GIS database, design, set up and maintenance, database administration • Review and respond to citizen feedback related to signal operations through the City work order system. • Evaluating existing operations and implement local controller programming in response to identified issues or citizen/staff feedback concerns • Answering staff questions concerning procedures, troubleshooting, system operations, and communications configurations/settings, • Assisting with documentating procedures for adding, modifying, or removing devices within the signal system software, • Assisting with updates to traffic signal geometric or electrical detail design plans • Assisting in active traffic management during active work zone detours, heavy shopping days, or special events • Assisting with network management of the fiber optic cable splice plans or network configurations for the traffic signal network. • Complete comprehensive documentation and analysis of pavement performance measures and distress types based on the latest American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standard criteria, deduction values and protocols • Overall pavement condition index (PCI) rating generated for the entire street system maintained by the City • Aggregated PCI rating by street segment in reference to cross road intersections, or other such method as seen fit • Robust web-based or desktop software application, configured spreadsheet, or other similar data management program for viewing and on the fly analysis purposes • Afore mentioned application or software must have the following capabilities: allow interactive budgetary restriction input, provide multiple recommendation scenarios, and generate multiyear cost-benefit analysis of maintenance scenarios accounting for deterioration projections. Full use of any application or software for a period of 12 months from the Final Report delivery date shall be included in the initial proposed cost. • The data and software application shall be GIS compatible • Access to all acquired data including, but not limited to; video footage, imagery, distress scores, raw un-aggregated condition ratings, and spatial data in a non-proprietary format capable of being saved on the City’s server and viewed for future reference without the requirement of recurring software subscriptions or service fees. • Applicable software and data services support and backup • Final report showing recommended treatment applications for street segments based on annual budget optimized for 3 years. Road segments should be grouped based on construction methods to minimize potential contractors’ mobilization costs.
