About this opportunity
AI summaryThe City of South Tucson seeks a qualified environmental professional to provide professional environmental consulting services under an EPA FY2025 Brownfields Community-Wide Assessment Grant. The selected consultant will prepare and update community engagement plans, produce outreach materials and website content, lead stakeholder activities and workshops, maintain a GIS-based brownfields inventory, and integrate community input into site prioritization. Eligible offerors must be onshore USA organizations and cannot be debarred, suspended, or ineligible. Offerors must submit their Statement of Qualifications and a task-by-task Cost Proposal via email to [email protected] by December 9, 2026, at 3:00 PM. A preproposal conference occurs on November 18, 2026, and firms must submit questions and notices of intent to submit by November 23, 2026, at 3:00 PM. A selection committee will evaluate submissions using a 100-point scale based on cost and price reasonableness (25 points), firm qualifications (20 points), personnel qualifications (20 points), technical approach (15 points), project management (10 points), and past performance (10 points).
Buyer and opportunity details
- Client
- CITY OF SOUTH TUCSON, ARIZONA
- Solicitation No.
- BF 11-2026
Scope of work
- Assistance with EPA grant management and implementation
- Preparation of sixteen quarterly progress reports, annual reports, and final closeout documentation
- Data management and entry into EPA's Assessment, Cleanup and Redevelopment Exchange System (ACRES)
- Preparing the Community Engagement Plan and updates
- Preparing and distributing outreach and promotional materials and website updates
- Conducting sixteen community meetings and forty individual stakeholder meetings
- Maintaining and updating the GIS-based Brownfields Inventory
- Preparation of eligibility determinations, site access agreements, QAPP, and sampling and analysis plans
How proposals are evaluated
| Criterion | Weight / scoring |
|---|---|
| Firm Qualifications and Relevant Experience | 20 Points |
| Personnel Qualifications and Experience | 20 Points |
| Project Understanding and Technical Approach | 15 Points |
| Project Management and Quality Control | 10 Points |
| Overall Capacity and Past Performance | 10 Points |
| Cost/Budget Considerations and Price Reasonableness | 25 Points |
Minimum qualifications
- Qualified environmental professional or brownfields consulting firm
- Demonstrated experience with EPA Brownfields programs
- Familiarity with 2 CFR Part 200 and federal grant requirements
- At least three references from similar projects completed within the past five years
- Not suspended, debarred, or declared ineligible for federal awards
- Compliance with Arizona E-Verify requirements under A.R.S. 23-214(A)
Documents to include with your response
- Statement of Qualifications
- Cover Letter
- At least three project references
- Cost Proposal including task-by-task budget and subconsultant/direct-cost estimates
- Attachment C – EPA Form 6600-06, Certification Regarding Lobbying
- Standard Form LLL, Disclosure of Lobbying Activities (if applicable)
Key dates
- Preproposal conference
- November 18, 2026, at 10AM
- Notice of Intent to Submit due
- November 23, 2026 at 3PM
- Questions submittal deadline
- November 23, 2026 at 3PM
- Written responses to submitted questions posted
- December 2, 2026 at 3PM
- Proposals due
- December 9, 2026 at 3PM
- Intent to award notice date
- December 23, 2026
How to submit
- Method
- Instructions
- Submit via electronic mail to [email protected] titled with the RFQ number and title, with cost proposals submitted via email titled Cost Proposal
Contract details
- Term
- Initial term of one (1) year with options for additional work funded through future grants for a maximum period of five (5) years
- Estimated value
- $456,430
- Place of performance
- City of South Tucson, Arizona
- Insurance and bonding
- Consultant's protective liability limits no less than $1,000,000 naming City as additional insured; professional liability coverage; and worker's compensation insurance with waiver of subrogation, written through an Arizona-licensed or approved carrier.
- Funding
- EPA FY2025 Brownfields Community-Wide Assessment Grant (EPA Cooperative Agreement No. BF-97T40001-0), subject to 2 CFR 200 and Davis-Bacon requirements