Legal Notices

NOTICE FOR CONSULTING SERVICES Notice is hereby given by the West Virginia Department of Transportation, Division of Highways, that consulting services will be utilized for six-year inspection projects, per the current National Bridge Inspection Standards and may include design plans for repairs and a load rating analysis, for the following projects: 1) Six-year inspection project for Admiral T. J. Lopez Bridge, over the Kanawha River. The bridge consists of eight continuous plate girder spans, a simple plate girder span, three continuous thru truss spans, and two continuous plate girder spans respectively. The roadway width is 56 feet. 2) Six-year inspection project for Bridge of Honor Bridge, over the Ohio River. The bridge consists of ten spans, three continuous cable stayed suspension spans and seven prestressed concrete spread box beam spans with an overall length of 1,852 feet. The roadway width is 56 feet with a six-foot sidewalk. 3) Six-year inspection project for Dunbar-South Charleston EB Bridge, over the Kanawha River. The bridge consists of eight continuous concrete box girder spans with an overall length of 2,795 feet. The roadway width is 64 feet. 4) Six-year inspection project for Dunbar Toll Bridge, over the Kanawha River. The bridge consists of three continuous wide flange beam spans, three cantilevered through truss spans, and three simple deck girder spans with an overall length of 1,385 feet. The roadway is 28 feet with a 4′-8″ sidewalk. 5) Six-year inspection project for Guyandotte River Overpass Bridges, over the Guyandotte River. The structure consists of dual bridges with fourteen spans each (five continuous steel beam spans, four continuous steel girder spans, four continuous steel beam spans and one simple steel beam span) with an overall length of 1,236 feet. The roadway width is 31 feet in each direction. 6) Six-year inspection project for Nick Joe Rahall II Bridge, over the Ohio River. The bridge consists of four steel beam spans, three steel through truss spans, and four steel deck girder spans with an overall length of 2,249 feet. The roadway is 28 feet. 7) Six-year inspection project for Robert C. Byrd Bridge, over the Ohio River. The bridge consists of two continuous steel beam spans, a three span Warren thru truss, and a simple steel beam span respectively. The roadway width is 32 feet. 8) Six-year inspection project for Wheeling Tunnel, under Wheeling Hill. The tunnel consists of twin tunnels 1,517 feet in length. The roadway width is 24 feet in each tunnel. 9) Six-year inspection project for William S. Ritchie Bridge, over the Ohio River. The bridge consists of ten spans, a three-span steel through truss and seven steel beam spans with an overall length of 2,716 feet. The roadway width is 31 feet. 10) Six-year biennial inspection project for Wellsburg Bridge, over the Ohio River. The bridge consists of five simple steel girder spans, and a tied arch main span with an overall length of 1,854 feet. The roadway width is 48 feet with an 8′ shared use path. Additional information may be obtained on each bridge by contacting Kimberly Hoover Trent, Operations Division, via e-mail at [email protected]. The above projects are currently scheduled for work to begin in 2025. Single or multiple assignments may be made for this work. Several of these structures are located on routes in urban and extremely high ADTT areas that will mandate traffic disruption. Progressive and innovative methods of inspection access will be considered in the selection process. Firms interested in being considered for this project must submit a letter of interest and unpriced prospectus to Mr. William R. Murray, Assistant Director, Operations Division, West Virginia Division of Highways, Building Five, Room A-350, 1900 Kanawha Boulevard, East, Charleston, West Virginia 25305-0430 AND via e-mail to: [email protected] prior to 4:00 p.m., July 12, 2024. As a minimum, the prospectus will include the following items for evaluation: 1) A completed copy of the Division’s Consultant Confidential Qualification Questionnaire, if not already on file, dated January 1, 2024 or later. 2) Overall capabilities to perform the work, including workforce available to assign to the project, personnel qualifications, and present workload. 3) Location of office in which the work will be performed. 4) Type of work anticipated to be sub-contracted or performed by a sub-consultant. 5) Indication of whether a cost accounting system has been maintained and is in effect such that it is capable of segregating and identifying accumulating costs for each job that is performed under cost type projects. 6) A completed copy of the Division’s Short List Selection Criteria Technical Evaluation form limited to a single page of data. Cross-referencing on this form to other parts of the prospectus is not acceptable. 7) Indication of the project(s) for which the firm is submitting information for consideration. If the submission is for all projects, a statement to that effect shall be made and a detailed listing shall not be required. Prior to entering into contract negotiations, the selected firm and any sub-consultants shall submit a current audited overhead rate computation performed by a state or federal government agency or independent CPA firm. The submitted overhead audit shall contain a detailed exhibit of the computations with all applicable eliminations and references. The audit shall be done in accordance with Government Auditing Standards issued by the Comptroller General of the United States and all eliminations required by the Federal Acquisitions Regulations will be made. This requirement will be waived for the selected firm or any sub-consultant when its portion of the fee for the project is less than One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00). In such instances, a company computed overhead rate may be utilized. A single letter of interest and unpriced prospectus is required regardless of the number of projects requested by the firm for consideration. It is the policy of the West Virginia Department of Transportation, Division of Highways that disadvantaged and women-owned business enterprises shall have the maximum opportunity to participate in the performance of contracts financed in whole or in part with federal funds. LC-175597 06-18,25;2024