A/E Design Services

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) is anticipating negotiation and awarding one (1), firm-fixed priced contract for Architectural and Engineering (A/E) services in accordance with FAR Subpart 36.6 selection procedures to pursue construction design drawings to build a Fish Technology Center (FTC) in the City of Rio Vista, CA that could house a back-up Delta Smelt population, provide space for Delta Smelt (and other imperiled Delta species) captive propagation research and/or production of up to 500,000 sub-adult delta smelt. The USFWS has completed, with support from USBR, a Master Plan (Stantec, 2019) for the Rio Vista Fish Technology Center (RVFTC) with the National Environmental Policy Act process completed in 2020 (NMFS, 2017; USFWS, 2017). The RVFTC master plan, using all available footprint, will be large enough to house a Delta Smelt Refuge population and produce up to approximately 500,000 sub-adult Delta smelt for supplementation. Final deliverables will include a set of the 35% Conceptual Design Drawings and Specifications and Engineer¿s Opinion of Probable Construction Costs on or before 365 calendar days from award and issuance of notice to proceed.

Architectural, Renovation.