The North Carolina Department of Public Safety (DPS), Division of Emergency Management (NCEM), Hazard Mitigation section (HM) is seeking qualified private sector engineering, surveying, and design firms in support of the ongoing Hazard Mitigation programs that aim to reduce the impacts of numerous disaster types within the State of North Carolina. Through one of FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation Assistance (HMA) grant opportunities, the primary focus for contract(s) resulting from this RFQ is assisting with the development and implementation of elevation, mitigation reconstruction, and demolition projects including engineering, surveying, and other types of design that are necessary for mitigation grant applications. This includes the creation of engineered designs, architectural plans, surveys, engineering reports, feasibility reports, environmental assessments (EA), construction cost estimates, quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) visits, and many other types of design and assessments that are essential to support hazard mitigation grant applications and the implementation of awarded grants. The State of North Carolina can often be faced with numerous hazards such as torrential rain, flooding, landslides, mudslides, rockfalls, and high winds resulting from severe storms and hurricanes, as well as the threat of wildfires, earthquakes, tornadoes, drought, and other disasters. Using the funding made available by FEMA’s HMA grants, NCEM-HM works to mitigate structures and properties to reduce damages and casualties resulting from disasters across the state. This often can include mitigation of structures located in the floodplain by elevating the structure’s First Floor Elevation (FFE) to or above the Regulatory Flood Protection Elevation (RFQE) or the Design Flood Elevation (DFE), whichever is higher. Another alternative is mitigation reconstruction in which an existing structure is demolished, and a new, more resilient structure is built in its place. A third alternative is acquisition in which an existing structure is demolished, and the land is acquired to be returned to green space indefinitely. NCEM-HM plans to award up to five (5) Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracts to qualified firms to complete engineering, surveying, and design to support applications for elevation, mitigation reconstruction, and acquisition projects as well as to complete QA/QC visits during the construction phase of awarded projects.
