Specifications include, but are not limited to: The City of Austin (City) anticipates contracting with up to eight (8) engineering firms for approximately five (5) years, to provide flood risk reduction engineering services for the Watershed Protection Department. The mission of the Watershed Protection Department (WPD) is to protect lives, property and the environment of our community by reducing the impact of flooding, erosion, and water pollution. WPD has identified and anticipates a number of engineering projects or Capital Improvement Program (CIP) Projects that will reduce the risk of flooding. The WPD categorizes flooding projects as creek flooding (CF) and localized flooding (LF). Creek flooding describes flooding that occurs along major creeks and their tributaries. Localized flooding is flooding that generally occurs away from creeks and is usually associated with a storm drain system or small drainage ditch. The engineering service needs for the WPD’s Flood Risk Reduction mission are specialized and diverse. The primary focus of the service need is large and complex storm drain improvement projects and creek flood risk reduction projects identified below. The selected firms are expected to have the personnel, technical knowledge and experience to provide planning, preliminary engineering, design and construction phase services as described below. The selected firms are also encouraged to team with subconsultants so that the professional entity has the ability to offer the broad range of water resource engineering and civil engineering expertise which may be required.