TO PROVIDE ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR DRAINAGE PROJECTS

SOQ No. 26-010
Provide Routine Engineering Services for Drainage Projects
Submission Deadline: May 01 , 2026 at 3:30 PM
ATTENTION VENDORS!!!
Please review all pages and respond accordingly, complying with all provisions
in the public notice and Jefferson Parish Code of Ordinances Section 2-926 et
seq. All submissions must be received on the Purchasing Department's
e-Procurement site, www.jeffparishbids.net, by the SOQ submission deadline
date and time. Late submissions will not be accepted.
Jefferson Parish Purchasing Department
General Government Building
200 Derbigny Street, Suite 4400
Gretna, LA 70053
Purchasing Specialist II: Donna M.Evans
Purchasing Specialist II: donna.evans@jeffparish.gov
Purchasing Specialist II: (504)-364-2691

PUBLIC NOTICE
SOQ 26-010
Provide Routine Engineering Services for Drainage Projects
The Parish of Jefferson, authorized by Resolution No. 148225 is hereby
soliciting a Statement of Qualifications (TEC Professional Services
Questionnaire) from persons or firms interested in being placed on a New List to
provide routine engineering services for Drainage projects for a fee of
$500,000.00 or less per assignment in Jefferson Parish for the Jefferson Parish
Department of Engineering.
Deadline for Submissions: 3:30 p.m., May 01, 2026
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General
Routine engineering services are for contracts where the total engineering fee,
exclusive of resident inspection services, will not exceed $500,000.00 per
assignment. Firms deemed qualified for this work shall be eligible for award of
routine drainage contracts for a two-year period.
The firms submitting a Statement of Qualifications (Jefferson Parish TEC
Professional Services Questionnaire) must identify all sub-consultant firms
which they expect to use to provide professional services, and submit a
Statement of Qualifications (Jefferson Parish TEC Professional Services
Questionnaire) for each sub-consultant firm. (Refer to Jefferson Parish Code of
Ordinances, Section 2-928).
Compensation
Compensation for the required services will be made on an hourly rate basis or
a fixed fee basis, or a combination of both, depending on scope and complexity
of the work. The Parish reserves the right to determine the method of payment
(hourly or fixed) for each individual assignment.
For hourly rate work, the firm shall be compensated by the appropriate Jefferson
Parish Department on the basis of their certified and itemized salary costs plus a
fee to cover overhead costs and profit in accordance with guidelines established
in Attachment "A" to the Standard Professional Services Agreement for
Jefferson Parish. A copy of Attachment "A" may be obtained by calling the
Jefferson Parish Department of Capital Projects at (504) 736-6833.
For fixed fee work, the fee shall be negotiated with the firm by the appropriate
Jefferson Parish Department and shall be mutually agreeable to both parties.
All costs associated with this project shall be subject to Jefferson Parish review
and approval.
The estimated fees for this work may vary among different assignments;
however, no individual assignment can have a fee exceeding $500,000.00,
exclusive of resident inspection services. There is no limit to the number of
assignments that can be awarded to a person or firm.
Minimum Requirements for Selection
1. The persons or firms under consideration shall have at least one (1)
principal who is a professional engineer who shall be registered as
such in the State of Louisiana. A subcontractor may not be used to
meet this requirement. (Section C. of TEC Professional Services
Questionnaire);

2. The persons or firms under consideration shall have a professional in
charge of the Project who is a professional engineer who shall be
registered as such in the State of Louisiana with a minimum of five (5)
years of experience in the disciplines involved. A subcontractor may
not be used to meet this requirement (Section K. "PROFESSIONAL
IN CHARGE:" of TEC Professional Questionnaire);
3. The persons or firms under consideration shall have one (1)
employee who is a professional engineer registered as such in the
State of Louisiana in the field or fields of expertise required for the
project. A subcontractor may meet this requirement only if the
advertised project involves more than one discipline (Section D. of the
TEC Professional Services Questionnaire).
With regard to the questionnaire, Principal means the sole proprietor of the
firm, or one who shares an ownership interest with other persons in the firm,
including but not limited to, a partner in a partnership, a shareholder in a
corporation, or a member of a limited liability corporation.
Evaluation Criteria
The following criteria will be used to evaluate each firm submitting a Statement
of Qualifications:
(1) Professional training and experience in relation to the type of work required
for the routine engineering services (Maximum points awarded shall be
thirty-five (35));
(2) Size of firm, considering the number of professional and support personnel
required to perform the type of routine engineering tasks, including project
evaluation, project design, drafting of technical plans, development of
technical specifications and construction administration (Maximum points
awarded shall be ten (10));
(3) Capacity for timely completion of newly assigned work, considering the
factors of type of routine engineering task, current unfinished workload, and
person or firm's available professional and support personnel (Maximum
points awarded shall be twenty 20);
(4) Past Performance by person or firm on Parish contracts (Maximum points
awarded shall be ten (10)) (Assertions of fault by a person or firm, which
shall include time delays, cost over-runs, and or design inadequacies in
prior work completed for the Parish shall be evidenced by substantiating
documentation provided by the Director of Public Works for the requesting
department or the Director of Engineering and received by the Chairman of
the Evaluation Committee a minimum of two (2) weeks prior to the
scheduled date of the Technical Evaluation Committee Meeting.);
(5) Location of the principal office (Maximum points awarded shall be fifteen
(15)) (Preference shall be given to persons or firms with a principal
business office as follows: (A) Jefferson Parish, including municipalities
located within Jefferson Parish (15 Points); (B) Neighboring Parishes of the
Greater New Orleans Metropolitan Region, which includes Orleans,
Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles and St. Tammany Parishes (12
Points); (C) Parishes other than the foregoing (10 Points); (D) Outside the
State of Louisiana (6 Points).);
(6) Adversarial legal proceedings between the Parish and the person or firm
performing professional services, in which the Parish prevailed or any
ongoing adversarial legal proceedings between the Parish and the person
or firm performing professional services excluding those instances or cases
where the person or firm was added as an indispensable party, or where
the person or firm participated in or assisted the public entity in prosecution
of its claim (Maximum points awarded shall be fifteen (15)) (In the event
that the person or firm fails to provide accurate and detailed information
regarding legal proceedings with the Parish, including the absence of legal

proceedings, the person or firm shall be deemed unresponsive with regard
to this category, and zero (0) points shall be awarded.);
(7) Prior successful completion of projects of the type and nature of routine
engineering services, as defined, for which firm has provided verifiable
references (Maximum points awarded shall be five (5));
Only those persons or firms receiving an overall cumulative score of at least
seventy percent (70%) or greater, with their highest and lowest score not
counted, of the total possible points for all categories to be assigned by the
participating Technical Evaluation Committee members shall be deemed
qualified to perform routine engineering services.
The person or firm submitting a Statement of Qualification (TEC Professional
Services Questionnaire) must identify all subcontractors who will assist in
providing professional services for the project, in the professional services
questionnaire. Each subcontractor shall be required to submit a (TEC
Professional Services Questionnaire) and all documents and information
included in the questionnaire. (Refer to Jefferson Parish Code Ordinance,
Section 2-928)
All persons or firms (including subcontractors) must submit a Statement of
Qualifications (TEC Professional Services Questionnaire) by the deadline. The
latest professional services questionnaire may be obtained by contacting the
Purchasing Department at (504) 364-2678 or via the Jefferson Parish website at
https://www.jeffparish.gov/468/Statement-of-Qualifications-SOQ.
Submissions will only be accepted electronically via Jefferson Parish's e-
Procurement site, Central Bidding at www.centralauctionhouse.com or
www.jeffparishbids.net. Registration is required and free for Jefferson Parish
vendors by accessing the following link:
www.centralauctionhouse.com/registration.php.
No submittals will be accepted after the deadline.
Affidavits and Insurance are not required to be submitted with the Statement of
Qualifications, but shall be submitted prior to contract approval.
Disputes/protests relating to the decisions by the evaluation committee or by the
Jefferson Parish Council shall be brought before the 24th Judicial Court.
ADV: The New Orleans Advocate: April 01, 08, and 15, 2026

ATTACHMENT "A" TO THE STANDARD PROFESSIONAL
SERVICES AGREEMENT FOR JEFFERSON PARISH
(Res. No. 76068, dated January 25, 1994; Amended per Ord, No. 21593. dated June 5,2002;
Amended per Ord. No. 26578, dated March 15, 2023)
This attachment shall be a part of all professional service agreements for engineering and
architectural services in Jefferson Parish.
The Statewide "DOTD Average Salary Rate" document [average rate plus one (1) standard
deviation], hereinafter referred to as "DOTD Document", is to be used for establishing Maximum
Direct Hourly Rate, Maximum Payable Hourly Rate, maximum overhead rate and, indirectly, the
maximum multiplier for each new professional services agreement. The version of the "DOTD
Document" to be used by Jefferson Parish will be that version of the document as designated by
the Director of the Department of Public Works.
For all hourly rate services, including supplementary services, where payments are made on the
basis of hourly rates, the ENGINEER/ARCHITECT, hereinafter ENGINEER, shall be paid on the
basis of their certified and itemized direct salary costs (Direct Hourly Rates) times a multiplier to
determine Payable Hourly Rates, which shall cover direct salary, overhead and 15% profit.
The multiplier shall be established from the overhead rate resulting from an audit of the
ENGINEER performed by a Federal or State agency, or from an audit performed by a Certified
Public Accountant (CPA) hired by the ENGINEER, provided the CPA certifies that their audit
complies with the latest applicable FAR's and CFR's. In the event a satisfactory audit is not
provided, the multiplier shall be 2.3.
The DIRECTOR shall have the right to require the ENGINEER to provide sufficient documentation
to support the approved multiplier.
In no case shall the overhead rate utilized to determine the multiplier be greater than the
applicable overhead rate shown on the "DOTD Document" as designated by the Director of the
Department of Public Works.
In no case shall the Direct Hourly Rate and Payable Hourly Rate used to pay for professional
services exceed the Maximum Direct Hourly Rate and Maximum Payable Hourly Rate shown
herein that have been derived from the "DOTD Document" as designated by the Director of the
Department of Public Works.
For this agreement, the approved multiplier shall be established at the time the services are
required.
The rates payable to sub-consultants shall be governed by the same regulations as those for the
ENGINEER, with an overhead rate and multiplier established for each sub-consultant.
If a Personnel Classification required for a Parish project is not included in the "DOTD Document",
the Parish Administration shall establish a new Personnel Classification and an appropriate
maximum direct and payable hourly rate, which would be consistent with personnel categories of
similar expertise found within the "DOTD Document", and include herein.
Once contract fees are negotiated, the "DOTD Document" as designated by the Director of the
Department of Public Works and in effect at the time of negotiation shall be used. Those fees
rates will be unaffected by subsequent versions of the "DOTD Document", except that the rates
for Resident Inspection services will be those in the "DOTD Document" in effect at the time those
inspection services begin. The rates in effect for this contract are included herein.
The ENGINEER shall be reimbursed for costs incurred by sub-consultants at the rate of 1.10
times the actual invoices of sub-consultants, up to a total amount of $200,000.00. Thereafter, the
rate shall be reduced to 1.05.
The ENGINEER shall be reimbursed for other direct costs charged to the project at a rate not to
exceed 1.10 times the direct expenses. No reimbursement will be made without satisfactory
documentation. The DIRECTOR reserves the right to have the ENGINEER provide proof that
direct expenses charged to the project are not included in ENGINEER'S overhead.
The ENGINEER shall be reimbursed for actual mileage expenses incurred while performing work
directly related to this contract; however, the reimbursement rate shall not exceed the Jefferson
Parish mileage rate in effect at that time.

On all contracts for which the Council has selected two or more consultants to share the work,
the Council shall specify the prime, or lead, consultant, and this consultant shall perform a larger
percentage of the basic design services than any of the sub-consultants, but in no case shall the
prime, or lead, consultant perform less than forty (40) percent of the basic design services.
The MAXIMUM DIRECT HOURLY RATE and MAXIMUM PAYABLE HOURLY RATE for each
Personnel Classification shall not exceed the rates in the following chart, regardless of the audited
overhead rate of the ENGINEER. These rates will also apply to firms incorporated out of State.
The MAXIMUM DIRECT HOURLY RATES shown below are equivalent to the Statewide DOTD
Average Salary Rates, plus one (1) standard deviation, as designated by the Director of the
Department of Public Works.
The MAXIMUM PAYABLE HOURLY RATES shown below are a product of the appropriate
Maximum Multiplier (field or non-field) and the MAXIMUM DIRECT HOURLY RATE.
PERSONNEL MAXIMUM DIRECT MAXIMUM PAYABLE
CLASSIFICATION HOURLY RATE ($) HOURLY RATE ($)
(*)
Abstractor/Appraiser 72.95 241.81
Accountant/Business Mgr. 54.46 180.52
Administrative/Clerical 30.90 102.43
Archaeologist 36.83 122.08
Architect 58.91 195.27
Biologist/Wetland Ecologist 41.63 138.00
CADD Drafter 29.75 98.62
CADD Technician 42.09 139.52
Computer Analyst 62.12 205.92
Driller 33.59 98.00
Economist 81.53 270.26
Engineer (P.E.) 66.82 221.49
Engineer Intern (E.I.) 38.88 128.88
Environmental Manager 81.30 269.49
Environmental Pro 58.60 194.25
Geologist 69.79 231.34
GIS Analyst 45.57 151.06
Inspector 35.80 104.45
Instrument Man 22.43 65.44
Labor 25.13 73.32
Landscape Architect 50.52 167.46
Party Chief (Survey) 31.66 92.37
Planner 79.87 264.75
Pre-Professional 38.88 128.88
Principal 124.10 411.37
Program Manager 93.81 310.96
Rodman 17.66 51.52
Senior Architect 75.08 248.88
Senior Landscape Architect 65.87 218.35
Senior Technician 50.99 169.02
Supervisor - Engineer (P.E.) 93.81 310.96
Supervisor - Other 91.70 303.97
Surveyor (P.L.S.) 63.10 209.16
Technician 35.49 117.64
Office Overhead Rate (%) (*) 188.24.....Maximum Multiplier (Office) = 3.3148
Field Overhead Rate (%) (*) 153.70.....Maximum Multiplier (Field) = 2.9176
(*) = Statewide DOTD Average Salary/Overhead Rate plus one (1) standard deviation obtained
from document dated February 1, 2022.

Statement of Qualifications
Affidavit Instructions
This affidavit is supplied as a courtesy to Affiant. It is the responsibility of the affiant to
insure the affidavit submitted to Jefferson Parish complies, in both form and content, with federal,
state and parish laws. It is the responsibility of the Affiant to submit a new affidavit if any
additional campaign contributions are made after the affidavit is executed but prior to the time the
council acts on the matter.
The Affidavit MUST comply with the following requirements to be accepted.
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Must be signed by an authorized representative of the entity.
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Must be notarized by a notary with proper jurisdiction who must sign and print
name, and include bar/notary number.
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Location where the notarization is taking place should be filled in at the top of
the affidavit - not the location of the contract services.
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MUST select either Choice A or B when required.
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If choice A is selected, it must include an attachment.
Affidavits with the following WILL NOT be accepted.
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If both choice A and B are selected, the affidavit will not be accepted.
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An affidavit marked N/A will not be accepted.
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An affidavit missing attachment(s) when required will not be accepted.
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An affidavit that is notarized by a notary who does not have jurisdiction in the place
where notarized or is not active will not be accepted.
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Affidavits that are older than six (6) months will not be accepted.
Instruction sheet may be omitted when submitting the affidavit.

Statement of Qualifications
AFFIDAVIT
STATE OF
PARISH/COUNTY OF
BEFORE ME, the undersigned authority, personally came and appeared:
, (Affiant) who after being duly sworn by me, deposed and said that
he/she is the fully authorized of (Entity),
who submitted a Statement of Qualifications (SOQ) to the Parish of Jefferson to
(Briefly describe the services.).
Affiant further said:
Campaign Contribution Disclosures
(Choose A or B, if option A is indicated please include the required attachment):
Choice A Attached hereto is a list of all campaign contributions, including
the date and amount of each contribution, made to current or
former elected officials of the Parish of Jefferson by Entity,
Affiant, and/or officers, directors and owners, including
employees, owning 25% or more of the Entity during the two-year
period immediately preceding the date of this affidavit. Further,
Entity, Affiant, and/or Entity Owners have not made any
contributions to or in support of current or former members of the
Jefferson Parish Council or the Jefferson Parish President through
or in the name of another person or legal entity, either directly or
indirectly.
Choice B There are NO campaign contributions made which would require
disclosure under Choice A of this section.
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Affiant further said:
Debt Disclosures
(Choose A or B, if option A is indicated please include the required attachment):
Choice A Attached hereto is a list of all debts owed by the affiant to any
elected or appointed official of the Parish of Jefferson, and any and
all debts owed by any elected or appointed official of the Parish to
the Affiant.
Choice B There are NO debts which would require disclosure under Choice
A of this section.
Affiant further said:
Solicitation of Campaign Contribution Disclosures
(Choose A or B, if option A is indicated please include the required attachment):
Choice A Attached hereto is a list of all elected officials of the Parish of
Jefferson, whether still holding office at the time of the affidavit or
not, where the elected official, individually, either by telephone or
by personal contact, solicited a campaign contribution or other
monetary consideration from the Entity, including the Entity's
officers, directors and owners, and employees owning twenty-five
percent (25%) or more of the Entity, during the two-year period
immediately preceding the date the affidavit is signed. Further, if
known to the Affiant, the date of any such solicitation shall be
included on the attached list.
Choice B There are NO solicitations for campaign contributions which would
require disclosure under Choice A of this section.
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Affiant further said:
Subcontractor Disclosures
(Choose A or B, if option A is indicated please include the required
attachment):
Choice A Affiant further said that attached is a listing of all subcontractors,
excluding full time employees, who may assist in providing
professional services for the aforementioned SOQ.
Choice B There are NO subcontractors which would require disclosure under
Choice A of this section.
Affiant further said:
That Affiant has employed no person, corporation, firm, association, or other organization,
either directly or indirectly, to secure the public contract under which he received payment,
other than persons regularly employed by the Affiant whose services in connection with
the construction, alteration or demolition of the public building or project or in securing
the public contract were in the regular course of their duties for Affiant; and
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