P A L M B E A C H C O U N T Y N O T I C E Pursuant to the Brooks Act, 40 USC 1101 and Florida Statutes 287.055 and County PPM # CW-O-048,, NOTICE is hereby given that Palm Beach County Water Utilities requires professional consulting services on the following project: ALL ENGINEERING SERVICES REQUIRED FOR PROFESSIONAL CONSULTING SERVICES: EMERGENCY AND DISASTER MITIGATION AND RECOVERY ENGINEERING CONTINUING SERVICES WUD PROJECT NO. 26-026 PALM BEACH COUNTY, FLORIDA. Consultants interested in this project are required to furnish EIGHT (8) originals (bound as a combed and/or notebook format), one copy (unbound) and one PDF on a CD of their proposal no later than 3:30 P.M. on Tuesday, July 7, 2026 with the following: 1) Letter of Interest (10 printed pages maximum) including reference to this Notice. Minimum font of 11 and minimum margins of 0.75” requested along with sufficient spacing within the letter. 2) GSA Form SF 330, to include those personnel within your firm, or sub-consultants who have expertise in the following categories: 5.02 Topography - Engineering Surveying 6.06 Soils, Foundation, and Material Testing - Materials Testing 7.01-7.05 Architectural - Architect 8.01 Mechanical Engineering – Waste Water Treatment Systems 8.02 Mechanical Engineering – Waste Water Collection Systems 8.03 Mechanical Engineering – Water Supply Treatment Systems 8.04 Mechanical Engineering – Water Distribution Systems 9.03 Electrical Engineering – Industrial Facilities 10.03 Structural Engineering – Industrial 12.07 Environmental Engineering - Water and Wastewater Treatment Process Design -- Subsurface Utility Engineering 3) A completed Prime Consultant Qualification Questionnaire 4) A completed Sub-Consultant Letter of Intent to Perform and Questionnaire (for each consultant) 5) Commercial Non-Discrimination Certification 6) Conflict of Interest Disclosure Form Relevant forms may be obtained by contacting the Roadway Production Division at 561-684-4150 or at http://discover.pbcgov.org/engineering/roadwayproduction/Pages/Roadway-Publications.aspx. Projects under this continuing contract may be funded in whole or in part by federal funds from the US Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration or by grants from HUD’s Community Development Block Grant Program, other HUD programs or grants or reimbursements from DHS/FEMA, the U.S. Department of the Treasury or grants from other federal agencies and programs. By submitting a proposal, Consultant certifies, represents, and warrants that it will comply with the Federal Requirements, if awarded the contract. Firms submitting proposals must be familiar with and certify compliance with the specific federal requirements applicable to each project. Prior to contract award, the following federal forms must be completed: 1) Certification Regarding Debarment, Suspension, Ineligibility, and Voluntary Exclusion - Lower Tier Participant 2) Certification Regarding Lobbying 3) Non-Collusion Affidavit of Consultant 4) Anti-Kickback Affidavit 5) Certification of Eligibility of Consultant 6) Certification of Non-segregated Facilities 7) Federal Tax Liability and Recent Felony Conviction Disclosure 8) Copies of DBE Certificates for all DBE Firms, if applicable Note: In accordance with Palm Beach County Code 2-351 through 2-358, “Cone of Silence” hereby applies and shall be in effect as of the deadline to submit the proposal, bid, or other response to a competitive solicitation, and is defined as the prohibition on any communication, except for written correspondence, regarding a particular Request for Proposal, Request for Qualification, bid, or any other competitive solicitation between any person or person’s representative seeking an award from such competitive solicitation, and/or any County Commissioner or Commissioner’s staff, or any employee authorized to act on behalf of the Commission to award a particular contract and shall terminate at the time the Board, or a County Department authorized to act on behalf of the Board, awards or approves a contract, rejects all bids or responses, or otherwise takes action which end the solicitation. The proposals should be sent to: Krystin Berntsen, P.E., PMP, Deputy Director Palm Beach County Water Utilities Department 8100 Forest Hill Blvd. West Palm Beach, FL 33413 Additional information pertaining to this project can be obtained from the Director of Engineering, Jane House at the Palm Beach County Water Utilities Department Engineering Division by email to jhouse@pbcwater.com. A non-mandatory pre-proposal meeting will be held on Wednesday, June 3, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. time at the Central Region Operations Center, Operations and Maintenance Building, Conference Room 55, 8100 Forest Hill Blvd, West Palm Beach, FL 33413. All Respondents are encouraged to attend this meeting. Attendees shall provide sufficient time to ensure arrival prior to the indicated time. The Contract will provide professional engineering services for emergency and disaster mitigation and recovery projects including pre and post assessments, safety and security improvements, regulatory requirements, replace or repair critical components, and any related engineering services during planning, evaluation, design, and construction. The professional/consulting engineering services may include, but are not limited to the following : • Safety improvements • Regulatory requirements • Replacement or repair of critical components • Security improvements • Redundancy of critical components • Survey including easements • Sub-surface utility explorations • Geotechnical investigations (e.g. soil survey, corrosion analysis) • Environmental assessment (e .g. Phase I and/or Phase II audits, cultural/historical resources, ecological resources, endangered species) • Field testing • Studies and reports • Stakeholder coordination • Hydrogeological services • Laboratory analysis • Permitting • Cost estimating • Asset management • Engineering services during planning, evaluation, design and/or construction • Grant/Funding Assistance One (1) firm will be selected. The term of the contract is four (4) years. Assignment of tasks to the selected firm will be at the sole discretion of the County. The County may choose to select another firm or use in-house staff to perform any of the above described items in whole or in part. Task assignments will be subject to scope definition and fee negotiation on a task by task basis. No amount of professional services or compensation is guaranteed to the selected firm(s). Responses will be evaluated based on the selection criteria set out in the County’s PPM# CW-O-048. In addition, prior to submission of a proposal, any firm or individual, as a prime consultant or as a sub-consultant, desiring to provide engineering professional services to Palm Beach County must first be CCNA certified with the Roadway Production Division of the Engineering and Public Works Department as qualified pursuant to law, and in accordance with the most administrative procedures for awarding of consulting contracts adopted by Palm Beach County. CCNA Certification Application and Instructions can be found at https://discover.pbcgov.org/engineering/roadwayproduction/Pages/CCNA.aspx In order to do business with Palm Beach County, vendors are required to create a Vendor Registration Account OR activate an existing Vendor Registration Account through the Purchasing Department’s Vendor Self Service (VSS) System, which can be accessed https://pbcvssp.pbc.gov/vssprd/Advantage4. IF PROPOSER INTENDS TO USE SUBCONSULTANTS, PROPOSER MUST ALSO ENSURE THAT ALL SUBCONSULTANTS ARE REGISTERED AS VENDORS IN VSS. ALL SUBCONSULTANT AGREEMENTS MUST INCLUDE A CONTRACTUAL PROVISION REQUIRING THAT THE SUBCONSULTANT REGISTER IN VSS. COUNTY WILL NOT FINALIZE A CONTRACT AWARD UNTIL THE COUNTY HAS VERIFIED THAT THE PROPOSER AND ALL OF ITS SUBCONSULTANTS ARE REGISTERED IN VSS. This will allow the County to notify you of upcoming solicitations. Proposers shall not add or delete team members, or adjust team participation after the proposal due date. In accordance with F.S. 287.133 (2) (a), persons and affiliates who have been placed on the convicted vendor list may not submit bids, contract with or perform work (as a contractor, supplier, subcontractor or consultant) with any public entity (i.e. Palm Beach County) in excess of Ten Thousand Dollars (or such other amount as may be hereafter established by the Florida Division of Purchasing in accordance with F.S. 287.017) for a period of 36 months from the date of being placed on the convicted vendor list. Prohibition against Considering Social, Political or Ideological Interests in Government Contracting - F.S. 287.05701. Proposers are hereby notified of the provisions of section 287.05701, Florida Statutes, as amended, that the County will not request documentation of or consider a Proposer’s social, political, or ideological interests when determining if the Proposer is a responsible Proposer. Proposers are further notified that the County's governing body may not give preference to a Proposer based on the Proposer’s social, political, or ideological interests. The County, in accordance with the provisions of the Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (78 Stat. 252, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000d to 2000d-4) and the implementing regulations, hereby notifies all respondents that it will affirmatively ensure that any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full and fair opportunity to submit proposals in response to this solicitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, or national origin in consideration for an award. Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act Requirements. If the solicitation exceeds $100,000 and involve the employment of mechanics or laborers, the CONTRACTOR agrees to comply with the Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act, codified at 40 USC 3701, et seq, as supplemented by the Department of Labor regulations at 29 C.F.R. part 5. The CONTRACTOR also agrees to include a similar requirement in all subcontracts financed in whole or in part with federal assistance. 29 CFR § 5.1 - Further Compliance with the Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act. (1) The contractor or subcontractor must maintain regular payrolls and other basic records during the course of the work and must preserve them for a period of three years after all the work on the prime contract is completed for all laborers and mechanics, including guards and watchpersons, working on the contract. Such records must contain the name; last known address, telephone number, and email address; and social security number of each such worker; each worker’s correct classification(s) of work performed; hourly rates of wages paid; daily and weekly number of hours actually worked; deductions made; and actual wages paid. (2) Records to be maintained under this provision must be made available by the contractor or subcontractor for inspection, copying, or transcription by authorized representatives of the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the Department of Labor, and the contractor or subcontractor will permit such representatives to interview workers during working hours on the job. 29 CFR § 5.5(b)(1)-(5) - Contract provisions and related matters. Compliance with the Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act. (1) Overtime requirements. No contractor or subcontractor contracting for any part of the contract work which may require or involve the employment of laborers or mechanics shall require or permit any such laborer or mechanic in any workweek in which he or she is employed on such work to work in excess of forty hours in such workweek unless such laborer or mechanic receives compensation at a rate not less than one and one-half times the basic rate of pay for all hours worked in excess of forty hours in such workweek. (2) Violation; liability for unpaid wages; liquidated damages. In the event of any violation of the clause set forth in paragraph (b)(1) of this section the contractor and any subcontractor responsible therefore shall be liable for the unpaid wages and interest from the date of the underpayment. In addition, such contractor and subcontractor shall be liable to the United States (in the case of work done under contract for the District of Columbia or a territory, to such District or to such territory), for liquidated damages. Such liquidated damages shall be computed with respect to each individual laborer or mechanic, including watchpersons and guards, employed in violation of the clause set forth in paragraph (b)(1) of this section, in the sum of $32 for each calendar day on which such individual was required or permitted to work in excess of the standard workweek of forty hours without payment of the overtime wages required by the clause set forth in paragraph (b)(1). (3) Withholding for unpaid wages and liquidated damages (i) Withholding Process. The (insert name of recipient or subrecipient) may, upon its own action, or must, upon written request of an authorized representative of the Department of Labor, withhold or cause to be withheld from the contractor so much of the accrued payments or advances as may be considered necessary to satisfy the liabilities of the prime contractor or any subcontractor for any unpaid wages; monetary relief, including interest; and liquidated damages required by the clauses set forth in this paragraph (b) on this contract, any other federal contract with the same prime contractor, or any other federally assisted contract subject to the Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act that is held by the same prime contractor (as defined in § 5.2). The necessary funds may be withheld from the Contract Provisions Guide 14 contractor under this contract, any other federal contract with the same prime contractor, or any other federally assisted contract that is subject to the Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act and is held by the same prime contractor, regardless of whether the other contract was awarded or assisted by the same agency, and such funds may be used to satisfy the contractor liability for which the funds were withheld. (ii) Priority to withheld funds. The Department has priority to funds withheld or to be withheld in accordance with paragraph (a)(2)(i) or (b)(3)(i) of this section, or both, over claims to those funds by: (A) A contractor's surety(ies), including without limitation performance bond sureties and payment bond sureties; (B) A contracting agency for its reprocurement costs; (C) A trustee(s) (either a court-appointed trustee or a U.S. trustee, or both) in bankruptcy of a contractor, or a contractor's bankruptcy estate; (D) A contractor's assignee(s); (E) A contractor's successor(s); or (F) A claim asserted under the Prompt Payment Act, 31 U.S.C. 3901-3907. (4) Subcontracts. The contractor or subcontractor must insert in any subcontracts the clauses set forth in paragraphs (b)(1) through (5) of this section and a clause requiring the subcontractors to include these clauses in any lower tier subcontracts. The prime contractor is responsible for compliance by any subcontractor or lower tier subcontractor with the clauses set forth in paragraphs (b)(1) through (5). In the event of any violations of these clauses, the prime contractor, and any subcontractor(s) responsible will be liable for any unpaid wages and monetary relief, including interest from the date of the underpayment or loss, due to any workers of lower-tier subcontractors, and associated liquidated damages and may be subject to debarment, as appropriate. (5) Anti-retaliation. It is unlawful for any person to discharge, demote, intimidate, threaten, restrain, coerce, blacklist, harass, or in any other manner discriminate against, or to cause any person to discharge, demote, intimidate, threaten, restrain, coerce, blacklist, harass, or in any other manner discriminate against, any worker or job applicant for: (i) Notifying any contractor of any conduct which the worker reasonably believes constitutes a violation of the Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act (CWHSSA) or its implementing regulations in this part; Contract Provisions Guide 15 (ii) Filing any complaint, initiating, or causing to be initiated any proceeding, or otherwise asserting or seeking to assert on behalf of themselves or others any right or protection under CWHSSA or this part; (iii) Cooperating in any investigation or other compliance action, or testifying in any proceeding under CWHSSA or this part; or (iv) Informing any other person about their rights under CWHSSA or this part. After the notification of recommended award has been posted, any unsuccessful proposer may request a debriefing from the Deputy Director, Krystin Berntsen, P.E., PMP, by email to Kberntsen@pbcwater.com. Palm Beach County reserves the right to reject any or all responses; to waive any or all informalities and/or irregularities; to re-advertise with either an identical or revised scope, or to cancel the solicitation in its entirety. Any plans are subject to reuse in accordance with Section 287.055(10), Florida Statutes. This Notice given this 31st day of May 2026. PALM BEACH COUNTY WATER UTILITIES DEPARTMENT BY: Krystin Berntsen, P.E., PMP, Deputy Director Palm Beach County Water Utilities Department BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PALM BEACH COUNTY, FLORIDA SARA BAXTER, MAYOR 12363662 5/31, 6/7/26