Contract 2025-01: Engineering and Design Consultation Services for Abutments and Subfoundation of the South Perkasie Covered Timber Bridge

Project Description: Wood Research & Development, located at Jefferson, Oregon, will receive contract proposals online until 11:00 A.M., prevailing time on March, 21, 2025, for subcontracting work on the South Perkasie Covered Bridge, located in Perkasie, Pennsylvania:
Contract 2025-01: ENGINEERING AND DESIGN CONSULTATION SERVICES FOR ABUTMENTS AND SUBFOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH PERKASIE COVERED TIMBER BRIDGE
Wood Research & Development (WRD) is soliciting proposals for engineering and design consultation services for part of the restoration of a historic timber covered bridge located in Lenape Park in Perkasie Borough. Companies submitting proposals must have demonstrated experience of said services.
WRD seeks engineering design services to investigate the existing foundations of the South Perkasie Covered Bridge and either provide sealed confirmation of foundation capacity to resist demand loads or design modifications and/or a new foundation design to support the bridge.
Perkasie Borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, is the owner of the South Perkasie Covered Bridge. It has contracted with WRD for engineering and design services for the bridge, which was damaged by the remnants of Hurricane Ida in 2021. The rehabilitation project is partially funded by FEMA, PEMA, and the state of Pennsylvania, along with local funds.
All Proposal Documents and solicitation details are available at no cost on the PennBid website https://pennbid.bonfirehub.com/. A nominal fee of 0.33% of the proposal amount (up to $5,000) is assessed by PennBid only to proposers awarded contracts. Questions regarding this project shall be submitted electronically via the “Ask a Question” feature in PennBid.
A virtual pre-proposal conference will be held at 10:00 A.M. local time on March 13, 2025. Representatives of Owner will be present to discuss the Project. Proposers are asked to attend and encouraged to participate in the conference call. The link for the conference on Zoom is:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83035747526?pwd=DGl3UCmzDXjQcBkKNVdlB2Fbj9Pj4m.1
A video replay of the virtual pre-proposal conference will be made available to registered attendees and also on PennBid.
Each proposal shall be submitted in accordance with the Request for Proposal.
Wood Research & Development reserves the right to waive any formalities or irregularities, and also reserves the right to reject any and all RFP's for any reason or no reason.