Unofficial Notice of Invitation to Bid (NIB)

General Bid Items

• Quantity: -  Unit: -  Work Item: Provide conceptual landscape restoration plans and specifications (CSI 16-division format) for restoration projects, including cost estimates.
• Quantity: -  Unit: -  Work Item: Prepare and review design-related reports, including Basis of Design, Final Design, and other memos/reports documenting design and operation details.
• Quantity: -  Unit: -  Work Item: Prepare reports and memoranda documenting investigations, studies, reviews, and decisions related to restoration design.
• Quantity: -  Unit: -  Work Item: Provide peer review of engineering documents (drawings, specifications, and calculations) for constructability and safety.
• Quantity: -  Unit: -  Work Item: Review and respond to contractor submittals and Requests for Information (RFIs); conduct site visits for work in progress review; perform design analysis for emergent construction issues.
• Quantity: -  Unit: -  Work Item: Provide environmental support for preparation of environmental documentation (CEQA), State/federal permitting, project descriptions, delineation of project limits, staging requirements, and nature of work relating to site and surroundings.
• Quantity: -  Unit: -  Work Item: Conduct environmental surveys (pre-construction, construction monitoring) and prepare logs/memoranda in compliance with environmental documents; surveys include biological (birds, mammals, invertebrates, general wildlife), California gnatcatcher, least Bell's vireo, stormwater, wetlands, cultural, paleontological, botanical, and air quality, restoration ecology, construction progress, plant health, soil amendments, plant establishment, seeding installation, and invasive species.
• Quantity: -  Unit: -  Work Item: Prepare reports required by environmental documents and permits (e.g., California Environmental Quality Act, California Fish and Wildlife Service Streambed Alteration Agreement).
• Quantity: -  Unit: -  Work Item: Monitor and oversee establishment of target vegetative communities, including construction progress review, invasive species control (e.g., herbicide applications and irrigation), and vegetation establishment/maintenance review.
• Quantity: -  Unit: -  Work Item: Monitor and oversee establishment of target habitat communities, including construction progress review, habitat feature establishment (e.g., woody material, rock piles), and small mammal habitat establishment/maintenance review.
• Quantity: -  Unit: -  Work Item: Prepare habitat restoration studies, plans, and reports documenting investigations, studies, reviews, and decisions related to restoration design.
• Quantity: -  Unit: -  Work Item: Provide knowledge transfer to DWR staff by answering technical questions on Scope of Work items.
• Quantity: -  Unit: -  Work Item: Manage projects, including project coordination, quality control, and preparation of work plans.
• Quantity: -  Unit: -  Work Item: Propose project management elements for task orders (task lists, schedules, budgets, deliverables, and assistance with project planning/execution).
• Quantity: -  Unit: -  Work Item: Host, attend, or make presentations at meetings/workshops (in person or via video/teleconference).
• Quantity: -  Unit: -  Work Item: Provide Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QA/QC) of developed deliverables and services.
• Quantity: -  Unit: -  Work Item: Provide deliverables as specified by task orders, including contract document review, estimates, memoranda, various electronic files (PDF, dwg, dgn, step, shp, xls, docx), field notes, photographs, permit applications, plans, letters, meeting notes, written comments, data/data files, illustrations, search results, schedules, study findings, records, maps, background information, studies, records searches, design/construction/analysis documents, written reports, recommendations, and verbal comments.

NAICS Classification

Landscape Architectural Services (Conceptual landscape restoration plans, landscape design, revegetation of habitats, site visits), Environmental Consulting Services (Environmental compliance, habitat and small mammal monitoring, invasive species control, CEQA oversight, environmental documentation, permitting, biological, cultural, paleontological, botanical, air quality surveys and restoration ecology), Engineering Services (Peer review of engineering documents, design analysis related to construction issues, technical memoranda)

Records and Due Date

This bid opportunity was entered into BidAmerica on December 12, 2025, and was last updated on December 30, 2025. All bids and/or proposals are due on January 8, 2026.

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