Request for Qualifications - Task Order Construction Agreement - Fire Alarms

Furnish all labor, equipment, materials, supplies, fuel, licenses and/or permits, spill prevention measures, and all other items necessary to perform herbicide application and mechanical harvesting services in accordance with the plans and specifications therefore and such addenda thereto may be issued prior to bid opening date.

The Department of Parks and Recreation (Parks), Division of Boating and Waterways (DBW) is issuing this RFP to receive Proposals from qualified firms (Proposers) to provide Aquatic Vegetation Control.

The DBW enters into an agreement with a mechanical harvesting, physical control and herbicide application company (Contractor) to mechanically remove, conduct physical control actions and/or equipment installations and use herbicides to treat water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes), water primrose (Ludwigia spp.), spongeplant (Limnobium laevigatum), alligatorweed (Alternanthera philoxeroides), Brazilian waterweed (Egeria densa), Coontail (Ceratophyllum demersum), curly leaf pondweed (Potamogeton crispus), Eurasian watermilfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum), fanwort (Cabomba caroliniana) and any additional authorized invasive floating, and/or submerged aquatic invasive plants from infested and blocked waterways within the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, Suisun Marsh, and its tributaries as part of the Aquatic Invasive Plant Control Program (AIPCP).

General Provisions

• The Contractor must provide all labor, equipment, materials, supplies, fuel, licenses and/or permits, spill prevention measures, and all other items necessary to perform herbicide application and mechanical harvesting services.
• No FAV removal or treatment shall take place until authorized by DBW.
• The Contractor shall provide DBW with daily status reports that describe work carried out during the previous day and discuss progress toward the objective of the work.
• The services shall be performed at sites within the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, Suisun Marsh, and its tributaries that are within DBW Jurisdiction.
• There is NO guarantee that DBW will need to harvest or treat any sites for a given year.
• The annual expenditures for this contract will not exceed **$5,000,000.00**.

Mechanical Harvesting Provisions

• The Contractor shall initiate and carry out effective mechanical removal and disposal of FAV from designated waterways within the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, Suisun Marsh, and its tributaries.
• The work shall be carried out intermittently, as is needed, for all months of the year, except for May and June, based on previous Biological Opinions and other permit requirements.
• The Contractor shall be responsible for proper disposal of FAV.

Herbicide Treatments

• The Contractor shall initiate and carry out effective herbicide treatments in designated waterways within the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, Suisun Marsh, and its tributaries.
• The work shall be carried out intermittently, as needed, during the DBW-approved herbicide treatment season (March 1 to November 30).

Physical Control

- The work shall consist of physical control actions and/or equipment placements, including Bubble Curtains, Benthic Mats, Hand/Nets, Diver Hand Removal, Diver Assisted Suction Removal, Booms and Floating Barriers, and Curtains/Screens.

Equipment Procurement

- The Contractor shall procure equipment required for and related to aquatic invasive plant mechanical harvesting, herbicide treatment, and physical control as requested by the DBW lead.

Submission

Proposals must be submitted electronically with all necessary fully executed bid submission documents as an attachment in Portable Document Format (PDF) to DBW_Admin@Parks.ca.gov no later than **2:00 p.m., Wednesday, November 3, 2026**. Submissions with attached PDF documents in excess of 10 Megabytes in size risk being rejected and can be deemed unresponsive. Proposals will be opened publicly over conference call (Microsoft Teams Meeting & Video platform) at **10:00 a.m. on Thursday, November 4, 2026**.

Scoring

This procurement will be based on the combined Technical Proposal, Cost Proposal, and Interview scores. If the contract is awarded, it will be awarded to the highest combined score whose proposal complies with the prescribed requirements.

Contract term

Estimated Contract Term: January 1, 2027 through December 31, 2029. The Agreement period will start upon DGS approval of the Agreement and will extend three years with an option to amend two one-year amendments, at the discretion of the state, for a total of five years.

All proposals shall remain valid for 30 calendar days after the bid opening date.