Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Town desires to partner with a Professional Consulting Engineering Firm (consultant) to plan, design, and construct a new culinary water well, with a desired flow rate of 600 gpm, that will become the primary water source for the Town. The selected consultant will guide the appropriate timing, scope, siting, design, and implementation of this plan. The consultant will review the Town’s water master plan and the two previously completed well siting studies (2017 and 2022), conduct a hydrogeologic, and hydraulic viability, and make a recommendation of the final selected site for the development of the municipal well, well building, and other necessary improvements to provide an operating well. Source development services will include well planning, well siting evaluation and recommendations, water rights confirmation, preliminary evaluation report and source protection plan, preliminary and final permitting, system hydraulic analysis, evaluation of pumping requirements, hydrogeologic analysis, property and topographic surveys, geotechnical engineering, cost estimating and value engineering, Design services will include the development of site plans, pumping station and piping design, project specifications and bidding documents, property needs and acquisition assistance (if needed), recommending and assisting with pre-purchase of long lead materials, permitting, cost estimating, value engineering, and contractor procurement. Construction assistance services will include processing construction documentation, assisting with partial pay requests, attending construction coordination meetings, conducting on-site observation at recommended intervals, and project close-out.
