Subcontracting Opportunities

Assistance with Wetland Surveys in Willow Park, TX

This solicitation is for Certified Minority/Woman Owned Business Enterprises (M/WBE) Only. Riverside Environmental Consulting, LLC requests assistance with the following:

  1. Wetland survey of approximately 5,500 feet of proposed discharge force main piping route.
  2. Wetland survey of 850 feet of proposed gravity sewer line route to connect the existing system.
  3. Wetland survey of footprint of proposed Waste Water Treatment Plant Site.

This contract is subject to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program, which includes EPA-approved fair share goals toward procurement of Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprise (M/WBE) businesses. EPA rules require that applicants and prime contractors make a good faith effort to award a fair share of contracts, subcontracts, and procurements to M/WBEs through demonstration of the six affirmative steps. For more details of the DBE Program and the current, applicable fair share goals, please visit www.twdb.texas.gov/DBE.

Six Good Faith Efforts (Affirmative Steps)

  1. Ensure DBEs are made aware of contracting opportunities to the fullest extent practicable through outreach and recruitment activities.  For Indian Tribal, state and local government recipients, this will include placing DBEs on solicitation lists and soliciting them whenever they are potential sources.
  2. Make information on forthcoming opportunities available to DBEs and arrange time frames for contracts and establish delivery schedules, where the requirements permit, in a way that encourages and facilitates participation by DBEs in the competitive process.  This includes, whenever possible, posting solicitations for bids or proposals for a minimum of 30 calendar days before the bid or proposal closing date.
  3. Consider in the contracting process whether firms competing for large contracts could subcontract with DBEs.  For Indian Tribal, state and local government recipients, this will include dividing total requirements, when economically feasible, into smaller tasks or quantities to permit maximum participation by DBEs in the competitive process.
  4. Encourage contracting with a consortium of DBEs when a contract is too large for one of these firms to handle individually.
  5. Use the services and assistance of the Small Business Administration (SBE) and the Minority Business Development Agency of the Department of Commerce.
  6. If the prime contractor awards subcontracts, require the prime contractor to take the above steps.

If interested in the subcontracting opportunity, please contact Chad Fitch at 205-510-8957 or email chadfitch@riverside-consulting.net.