Request for Proposal No. 25-005 for Professional Environmental Consulting Services

The Guam Economic Development Authority (hereafter referred to as “GEDA”) invites offerors to submit a proposal in response to this Request for Proposal (“RFP) for Professional Environmental Consulting Services. GEDA is seeking these services from qualified Firms(s)/Individuals(s) to prepare an Environmental Assessment pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to support the design, construction and operation of a new public hospital and related public facilities in Mangilao, Guam (the “Project”) as described in the Scope of Services herein. GEDA is authorized by its enabling legislation (12 GCA 50103) to finance, acquire, construct, reconstruct, rehabilitate, or improve hospital facilities. Section 50103(a) of Title 12 GCA states: “The Legislature has also found and determined that there exists an acute shortage of adequate, modern and efficient hospital facilities in Guam and that unless measures are adopted to alleviate such conditions, the need for such facilities will become increasingly more urgent and serious. It is hereby declared that the safety, health and welfare of the people of Guam requires the provision of adequate, modern and efficient hospital facilities in the various parts of Guam, and that it is the policy of Guam and a purpose of this Division to provide the means necessary for the acquisition, construction and provision of hospital facilities to serve the general public and to make reasonably accessible to all the people of Guam modern and efficient hospital facilities. The Legislature has further found and declared that the financing, acquisition, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation or improvement of hospital facilities and the provision of such facilities as may be incidental or appurtenant thereto are public uses and public purposes for which public money may be expended and that the enactment of this Division is necessary and proper for effectuating the purposes hereof as hereinafter provided.” The services solicited will enable GEDA to implement legislated objectives. Specific tasks are specified in Section 4 of this RFP.