Climate Action Plan RFP

Summary

PROJECT REQUIREMENTS

The City of Los Altos is soliciting proposals from qualified Consultants to provide professional services for development and approval of the City of Los Altos Climate Action Plan Update. The required services and performance conditions are described in the Scope of Work (or Services).

INSURANCE REQUIREMENTS

The consultant will be required to maintain insurance coverage for Personal Injury and Worker's Compensation, with the City of Los Altos named as "Additional Insured." The City will also require Professional Errors and Omissions insurance acceptable to the City Attorney. Carefully review the insurance requirements listed in Exhibit ‘B’ of the enclosed Professional Services Agreement Sample.

PROPOSALS

Please submit five (5) hard copies of the proposal incorporating all requirements set forth in this RFP along with a statement of qualifications for undertaking the proposed services. Please define the proposed work and the completion schedule respective to your proposal. An electronic submittal shall also be provided upon submittal on a flash drive or provide a Dropbox or OneDrive link. Submittals shall be sent to:

Emiko Ancheta Sustainability Coordinator City of Los Altos
1 North San Antonio Road, Los Altos, CA 94022 
eancheta@losaltosca.gov 
650-947-2646

FEE SCHEDULE

Not to exceed fees should be listed in the Fee Schedule for each task for the project. Payment for work completed will be based on progress to date for each task as described in the Scope of Services. The consultant should include costs for attending meetings, site visits, travel expenses, and all other project related expenses such as delivery services, printing costs, etc. in the fees submitted for each task. The total consultant fees should not exceed $75,000.

IMPORTANT DATES

The proposal will remain open until September 15, 2020. We will begin our evaluation of the proposals shortly thereafter and provide notification shortly thereafter

RFP Issued

August 10, 2020

Pre-Bid Conference* August 24, 2020
Proposal Due September 15, 2020
Interviews (if necessary) TBD
Selection and Intent to Award  September 28, 2020
Finalize Scope of Services and Agreement October 26, 2020
Contact Approval by City Council TBD
Contract Execution November 10 - December 10, 2020
Kick Off Meeting TBD

*Please contact Emiko Ancheta at eancheta@losaltosca.gov  or (650) 947-2646 for instructions on virtual pre-bid conference. 

OTHER INFORMATION

The City will evaluate each of the consultant’s qualifications and may conduct interviews with the consultants that demonstrate the best qualifications for the proposed services. From this evaluation and possible interviews, the City will select a consultant and negotiate a fee for the services delineated in this RFP. The consultant must be ready to execute a standard Agreement for Consultant Services (draft version is attached) within thirty (30) days of award of the project. The proposal submitted in response to this RFP will be included as part of the Agreement with the selected consultant.

If you need assistance or have questions, please call Emiko Ancheta, Sustainability Coordinator, at (650) 947-2646 or email at eancheta@losaltosca.gov

Sincerely,

Emiko Ancheta

City of Los Altos, Sustainability Coordinator

 

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Status

Closed - no longer accepting bids and proposals

Due Date

Tue, Sep 15th, 2020 4:00pm

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Questions for this Bid/RFP

Yes we intend to update to the VMT estimates, but will continue using LOS data a intersections to evaluate a project’s potential for impacts on the local circulation system. We have not purchased this system, but would be relying on the models provided by our consultant that is assisting us with the transition to VMT, which we understand is based on the VTA model and its data.
Please see "Climate Action Plan - Environmental Initial Study and Negative Declaration" under the Public Files section.
We believe it was a mitigated negative declaration – but would need to do some research to verify. The General Plan was completed in 2002.
We have GHG emission data (SVCE) from 2015, 2017, 2018 for (residential and non-residential) electricity, natural gas, transportation, off-road and on-road transportation, data from CalWater and MTWS (solid waste), and 2018 commute survey(employee) information. We will work with the consultant to support data collection where we can.
Consultants are expected to attend meetings and public hearings for the Environmental Commission and the City Council and facilitate public meetings (including webinars) that engage the community and stakeholders.
Please see #4 in the ‘CAP Update RFP Pre-proposal Q&A’s’ PDF document under Public Files.