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Attachment 1 3 Instructions to Firms Submitting Qualifications for the Upper Neuse River Basin Association (UNRBA) Nutrient Credit Study and Credit Tool Development Project Thank you for agreeing to submit qualifications for the UNRBA's Nutrient Credit Study and Credit Tool Development Project. The UNRBA plans to supplement the work of the Jordan Lake Nutrient Science Advisory Board regarding credit development in order to provide communities subject to nutrient management strategies an expanded list of Best Management Practices (BMPs), or tools, to achieve their respective reduction goals. At this time, the UNRBA's technical steering committee, the Path Forward Committee, is seeking qualifications from environmental engineering firms to perform this work. The UNRBA's technical steering committee is seeking short qualifications packages from selected firms identified by our member governments. The technical steering committee will recommend to the UNRBA Board the development of a contract to one firm, or team, to perform the desired tasks. Qualifications packages will be ranked based on the experience and expertise of the key staff members and that of the firm or team. At this point in the project development, a specific project scope is unavailable. Therefore, we are unable to provide you with the detailed information to develop a comprehensive project proposal, schedule or definitive project cost. However, the technical steering committee will be developing cost and schedule information in order to establish a definitive project scope and, in consultation with the selected service provider, the contractual conditions necessary to complete this work. Firms are being asked to develop preliminary, screening level cost estimates and schedules indicating a prospective upper and lower bounds of these components to complete the two project tasks. These estimates do not need to be exact and, if you are awarded the contract, you will not be held to these cost estimates when a contract is developed. This Qualifications package should contain the following information: 1. Cover Letter 2. Project Leader and key project staff in an organization chart. This chart should identify the location and firm of each key staff member. 3. Resumes of Key Staff, with relevant experience, highlighting your team's background in review and synthesis of research literature, and development of statistics on that info; BMP design; BMP monitoring and evaluation for nutrient performance; and development of engineering methods, formulas, modeling to describe BMP nutrient performance. Resumes should include the percent of time the proposed staff member is available for this project. Individual resumes should not exceed 1 page. 4. Firm and Team Experience with structural BMP design, management, performance, and installation. Please include the Firm's background relative to nutrient reductions associated with structural and non - structural BMPs, and developing regulatory credits for BMPs. 5. Preliminary Cost Estimates and Schedules for the following hypothetical tasks: a. Credit Development b. Credit Accounting Tool Development Each section of the qualifications package should be numbered similar to the outline. The entire qualifications package, including the preliminary cost estimates and schedules, should not exceed 15 pages. Brief outlines of your approach to developing the preliminary cost estimates and schedules should be included. Specific instructions for the preliminary cost estimates and schedules are provided as an attachment. Submittal instructions: Qualifications are due at noon on Friday, June 7, 2013. Qualifications should be emailed to the UNRBA Executive Director, Mr. Forrest Westall (forrest.westall&unrba.org and forrest.westall&mc ig l�gineers.com), and Ms. Michelle Woolfolk, the UNRBA Path Forward Committee Chairperson ( michelle .woolfolkkdurhamnc.gov). All packages should be in Portable Document Format (PDF). The Executive Director may contact the firm or team with follow -up questions. Page 1 of 3