General Information:

The Cowlitz Indian Tribe (CIT) is soliciting design/build proposals to install an elevator as well as remove and upgrade an atrium window at 900 Fir Street, in Longview WA 98632, as described in Scope of Work provided in Attachment A. Contractor is responsible to obtain all necessary permits as required. All work must meet federal, state, and local standards, laws, specifications, and codes. 

Critical Dates:

RFP Response Due Date and Time: 3:00 P.M. PST, January 10th, 2024, Wednesday 

General Information:

The Cowlitz Indian Tribe (Tribe) secured private, State, and Federal grant funding for the removal of
Kwoneesum Dam, originally constructed by the Camp Fire Girls, in 1964-65. This project will restore fish
passage to the headwaters of Wildboy Creek and enhance instream conditions of Wildboy Creek, a
tributary to the West Fork Washougal River, located in Skamania County, Washington. The Kwoneesum
Dam project site is owned by Columbia Land Trust (Land Trust) and located roughly 18 miles north of the
city of Washougal. The project site is behind locked gates, and accessed from Skamania Mines Road and
Weyerhaeuser’s 1200 Road.

The 55-foot-tall and 425-foot-long rock fill embankment dam creates a roughly 10-acre reservoir
and blocks all fish passage to 6.5 miles of productive tributary habitat. The Tribe plans to remove the
dam during summer 2024, immediately restoring fish passage and reestablishing downstream
geomorphic processes to support the recovery of Washougal River coho salmon and summer steelhead
populations. Project restoration work will include placement of numerous large wood structures in ~0.5
miles of Wildboy Creek below the dam and ~0.5 miles of tributary channels within the reservoir
footprint (after dam removal).

In preparation for this project, the Tribe purchased and delivered large wood (670 conifer logs) including
several hundred stick logs and rootwad-attached logs. The majority of the large wood needed for
construction is stockpiled onsite and available to the selected contractor. Approximately 17,100 cubic
yards (CY) of native material, excavated from Wildboy creek to create the approximately 10-acre
Kwoneesum reservoir, has been screened and sorted into four piles, consisting of topsoil, gravels,
cobbles, and boulders. These materials are onsite and available to the selected construction contractor.

Critical Dates:

• DJC Public Notice: est. November 22, 2023
• Mandatory Site Tour/Job Walk: December 6, 2023 – 10:00am PST
• Additional Site Viewing Opportunity: December 13, 2023 – 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM PST
• Request for Clarification/Question Submittals by: December 22, 2023 – 6:00pm PST
• Response to Questions: est. January 10, 2023 – 6:00pm PST
• Proposal/Bid Submission Deadline (hard copy required): January 18, 2023 – 2:00 pm PST
• Selection Committee Review and Scoring: Week of January 22 - 26, 2024
• Interviews (if conducted): Week of January 29 – 31, 2024 (tentative)
• Award Selection/Contract Award: February 1, 2024 (tentative)
• Fully Executed Contract: February 15, 2024 (tentative)
• Simplified Project Timeline (overview):
  • Contractor materials sourcing: February, 2024 (tentative)
  • Contractor Pre-Con Meeting: March 1, 2024 (tentative)
  • Contractor mobilizes and begins site prep: April 15, 2025 (tentative)
  • WDFW/HPA In-Water Work Window begins: May 15, 2024
  • WDFW/HPA In-Water Work Window ends: September 30, 2024
  • Contractor completes all In-Water Work by: September 30, 2024
  • Contractor conducts site restoration and demobilizes by: November 30, 2024

General Information:

Training delivery formats – the successful vendor must offer online workshops and training materials on the following tools:
o    Outlook – using email (composing, reading, sending, attachments), calendar, and stationary signature, folders, etc.
o    Excel – basics 
o    Word – basics
o    Searching on the internet
o    Training courses developed should be designed for beginners and intermediate users.

Critical Dates: RFP Response Due Date and Time: 3:00 P.M. Nov. 3, 2023

General Information: The upper Grays River subbasin and surrounding tributaries have a relatively steep, confined channels, with hillside composed of erosive soils, susceptible to mass wasting when vegetation is disturbed or removed (via timber harvest). Blaney Creek is a tributary of the South Fork Grays Page 2 of 24  River, situated 0.4 miles upstream of its confluence with the upper Grays watershed. During the 1990’s two large rotational landslides mobilized and traveled down the northwest slope of Blaney Creek. This pair of landslides likely contributed to the formation of a steep boulder cascade, creating a documented, full fish passage barrier. The detail of this slide is documented in the 2007 BPA Grays River Watershed and Biological Assessment and surveyed by WDFW fish passage staff. This project aims to restore fish passage and improve habitat through a 1.1 mile reach of Blaney Creek as well as 0.4 miles of a left bank tributary. The project area begins at the 7300 road crossing and continues to a documented 25ft bedrock waterfall.

Critical Dates:

• Mandatory Site Tour: July 7, 2023 – 10:00am PST
• Request for Clarification/Question Submittals by: July 14, 2023 – 6:00pm PST
• Response to Questions: est. July 21, 2023 – 6:00pm PST
• Proposal Submission Deadline: July 28, 2023 – 2:00 pm PST
• Tentative Award Selection/Contract Award: August 7, 2023
• Anticipated Project Timeline: August 2023 – June 15, 2024

General Information:

The Cowlitz Indian Tribe (Tribe) secured private, State, and Federal grant funding for the removal of Kwoneesum Dam to restore fish passage and enhance Wildboy Creek and other associated tributaries northeast of Washougal in Skamania County, Washington. The Kwoneesum Dam project site is located roughly 18 miles above Washougal on Columbia Land Trust (CLT) property, and accessed via Skamania Mines Road and Weyerhaeuser’s 1200 Road.

The 55-foot-tall and 425-foot-long rock fill embankment dam creates a roughly 9-acre reservoir and blocks all fish passage to 6.5 miles of productive tributary habitat. The Tribe plans to remove the dam during summer 2024, immediately restoring fish passage and reestablishing downstream geomorphic processes to support the recovery of Washougal River coho salmon and summer steelhead populations. Project restoration work will include instream placement of large wood structures during dam removal. In support of this effort, the Tribe seeks to hire a Construction Management (CM) firm to provide project support as needed.

Critical Dates:

• RFP Issued: May 25, 2023
• Mandatory Site Tour: June 6, 2023 – 10:30am PST
• Request for Clarification/Question Submittals by: June 13, 2023 – 6:00pm PST
• Response to Questions: June 20, 2023 – 6:00pm PST
• Proposal Submission Deadline: June 26, 2023 – 2:00 pm PST
• Tentative Award Selection: June 30, 2023
• Anticipated Project Timeline: June 2023 – December, 2024

General Information:

The Cowlitz Indian Tribe (Tribe) secured funding through Tacoma Power Utilities - Cowlitz Restoration and Recovery (CRR) Fund grant to develop a preliminary design to relocate over  0.30 mile of Forest Road 2801 near Randle, Washington. The proposed project would also address flood conveyance under adjacent Forest Road 28 to reduce river valley constriction and restore  floodplain connectivity. Project designs are expected to include placement of logjam and complexity structures to increase floodplain connection and provide habitat diversity for ESA listed salmonids.  The resulting project will support natural habitat forming processes and increase floodplain rearing habitat for Lower Columbia coho, and chinook salmon and steelhead, while preserving emergency egress for the local community.

These efforts are a continuation of the  Tribe and United States Forest Service’s (USFS) broader aquatic restoration efforts in the Cispus River and Yellowjacket Creek to improve salmonid habitat and aquatic functions.  This project builds upon several phases of the Tribe’s completed and ongoing restoration work in the vicinity that has been done in partnership with the USFS. 

Critical Dates:

• Mandatory Site Tour:  June 1, 2023 – 10:30am PST
• Request for Clarification/Question Submittals by: June 8, 2023 – 6:00pm PST
• Response to Questions: June 15, 2023 – 6:00pm PST
• Proposal Submission Deadline: June 21, 2023 – 2:00 pm PST
• Tentative Award Selection: June 27, 2023
• Anticipated Project Timeline: June 28, 2023 – November 30, 2024 

General Information:

The Cowlitz Indian Tribe (Tribe - CIT) has secured funding through the Recreation and Conservation Office’s (RCO) Salmon Recovery Funding Board (SRFB), Tacoma Public Utilities (TPU),  and the NOAA Fisheries Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund (PCSRF) for harvest and delivery of conifer logs to support the Tribe’s upcoming Cispus-Yellowjacket Phase III Habitat Restoration Project in Lewis County, Washington.  The project is located within the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, approximately 11 miles southeast of Randle near the confluence of Yellowjacket Creek and the Cispus River.  

Critical Dates:

• DJC Public Notice: est. March 8-9, 2023
• Mandatory Site Tour/Job Walk: March 17, 2023 – 10:00am PST
• Request for Clarification/Question Submittals by: March 22, 2023– 6:00pm PST
• Response to Questions: est. March 27, 2023 – 6:00pm PST
• Proposal Submission Deadline: March 30, 2023 – 2:00 pm PST
• Tentative Award Selection/Contract Award: April 3, 2023
• Project Timeline:
  • Contractor mobilization – June 2023
  • Contractor may begin work below the OHWM, but not in the active (wetted) channel on June 15
  • Contractor may begin work below the OHWM and within the active (wetted) channel from July 15 – September 30.  

RFP:

The Cowlitz Indian Tribe (Tribe) has secured grant funding through the Washington Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO), from Washington Coastal Restoration and Resiliency Initiative (WCRRI), and the Salmon Recovery Funding Board (SRFB), to procure materials and implement a large-scale 3.1 mile instream habitat restoration project on the East Fork Grays River, and adjacent tributaries called Mitchell Creek and Left-bank Tributary, located in Pacific County, Washington.

General Information:

The Cowlitz Tribe previously solicited bids from contractors to supply certain materials for this project to streamline construction given the limited in-water work window. In support of this and other upcoming restoration projects, the Cowlitz Tribe purchased and harvested 40.7 acres of timber roughly adjacent to this project site. All trees were tipped over whole with rootwads attached and decked within the nearby harvest units. Average DBH of harvested timber is 13 inches. Additionally, the Tribe had approximately 200 large diameter (24-54 inch) oversized logs and whole trees with rootwads attached (ranging in 30-70 foot length) delivered to the project site for use as key logs in proposed large wood habitat structures and engineered log jams (ELJ’s). All wood proposed for this restoration project is decked onsite and is available to the selected contractor.

Critical Dates:

• DJC Public Notice: est. March 6-7, 2023
• Mandatory Site Tour/Job Walk: March 13, 2023 – 10:00am PST (weather dependent)
• Request for Clarification/Question Submittals by: March 16, 2023– 6:00pm PST
• Response to Questions: est. March 20, 2023 – 6:00pm PST
• Proposal Submission Deadline: March 23, 2023 – 2:00 pm PST
• Tentative Award Selection/Contract Award: est. March 27, 2023
• Project Timeline:
  • June 1, 2023 – October 6, 2023
  • In-Water Work Window July 1 – September 30
  • Project Completion/Demobe no later than October 6, 2023
  • Optional Ground-Based Helicopter Support –September/October 2023

PRE-SOLICITATION
It is the responsibility of the proposer to monitor this site prior to proposal submission, in case additional information, which may be pertinent to the proposal is provided.

General Information:
The Cowlitz Indian Tribe (Tribe - CIT) has secured funding through the Salmon Recovery Funding Board (SRFB) and the Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO) for the removal of Kwoneesum Dam to restore fish passage and then enhance Wildboy Creek and other associated tributaries located northeast of Washougal in Skamania County, Washington. The Kwoneesum Dam project site is located on Columbia Land Trust (CLT) property and is accessed via Skamania Mines Road and the 1200 Road (Weyerhaeuser Property), roughly 18 miles above Washougal.

Release Date: 9/7/2022
Closing Date: