Summary:
Through this Request for Pre-Qualification (“RFQUAL”), the Village of Daajing Giids (the “Village”) invites submissions from organizations that are able to provide multi-discipline professional consulting and engineering services for municipalities in British Columbia, to provide non-binding Submissions for the provision of such services on an ‘as and when’ needed basis over the next 3 years; in support of various municipal planning, development, and infrastructure capital projects that the Village has as part of its strategic and capital plans.

The following categories of professional consulting, engineering, and related services will be within the scope of this Request for Pre-Qualification:

• Municipal Planning & Development
• Water & Wastewater Engineering & Consulting
• Transportation & Linear Infrastructure Engineering & Consulting
• Environmental Consulting
• Geotechnical Engineering
• Communications, Engagement & Governmental Relations

Further detail on these Categories is provided herein.  Due to the interdependent nature of many of the potential assignments the Village has planned under these Categories; Respondents to this RFQUAL must propose to provide professional consulting services for all Categories listed above.  Submissions will not be accepted to provide services for only some Categories. 

Key summary details of the Pre-Qualification process are as follows:

• As an outcome from this RFQUAL, the Village will shortlist up to 2 Respondents that will then become ‘Pre-Qualified Organizations’.
• The Pre-Qualified Organizations will be ranked in order of 1^st and 2^nd (with the 1^st-Ranked Organization being the highest-ranked, and the 2^nd-Ranked Organization being the lowest-ranked) according to their total weighted scores from the RFQUAL Evaluation.
• For all future engineering and professional consulting service assignments required by the Village under these Categories, including any projects or assignments which may not be specifically identified in this RFQUAL (collectively referred to herein as the “Assignments”), the Village may at its sole option either:
  1. Provide a right of first refusal to the Pre-Qualified Organizations, in order from 1^st-Ranked to 2^nd Ranked*, for the Direct Award of a contract of any value for the Assignment; or
  2. Invite the Pre-Qualified Organizations to participate in a ‘by-invitation’ only 2^nd-stage RFP process for the specific Assignment; or
  3. Conduct a public-Request for Proposals process open to both Pre-Qualified Organizations and non-Pre-Qualified organizations, where the specifics of the Assignment warrant a further public process at the sole discretion of the Village.

*Right of first refusal will first be offered to the 1^st-Ranked Organization.  If the 1^st-Ranked Organization does not have capacity to take-on the Assignment or the parties cannot come to a mutual agreement regarding the Assignment, then the Village may at its sole option offer a right of refusal to the 2^nd-Ranked Organization.

• The Pre-Qualification of organizations from this RFQUAL will be valid for a period of 3 years commencing from the Closing Date of this RFQUAL, in accordance with the requirements of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).   No further notices to solicit Submissions for inclusion in the Pre-Qualified Organization list will be issued during this three-year period. 

Further details on the potential service requirements, and the Request for Pre-Qualification process are contained in the attached RFQUAL documents.