This contract will serve as a portal for BPA funding to support Reclamation to design the Middle Entiat Project.

The Middle Entiat Project consists of a number of habitat improvement projects in the Gray and Stormy Reaches of the Entiat River in Chelan Co, WA.  Reclamation and BPA are undertaking this work as partial fulfillment of their obligations to improve tributary habitata for spring Chinook and Steelhead un der the 2008 FCRPS BiOp.  The Gray and Stormy Reaches of the Entiat River have been evaluated for habitat rehabilitation and potential projects have been identified through a Reach Assessments (2012) and Map Books illustrating initial habitat improvement concepts (2012).  These documents can be found on Reclamation’s web page here:  

http://www.usbr.gov/pn/programs/fcrps/thp/ucao/index.html

The project area is located roughly between River Miles (RM) 16.1 and 20.9  and includes many proposed in-stream structures, side channel improvements, alcove improvements and bank roughness.

The purpose of this contract is to retain the services of a design engineer to provide technical analysis and coordination for the Middle Entiat project.  The project is broken out into several phases.  This phase of work includes analysis and coordination to advance the concepts outlined in the Stormy Reach and Gray Reach Map Books to preferred concepts and then to 30% design,  This will be done using Reclamation's contractor.

Reclamation's contractor will participate on both the DesignTeam and Project Team for the Middle Entiat project during this and future phases of the project. The Design Team will be led by the contractor and is tasked with understanding and combining in an appropriate way the stakeholder, biological and physical project objectives to be used by the design engineer (contractor) to develop preferred concepts and designs.  The design engineer (contractor), as a member of the design team, is required to track all decisions and design changes for each project element.  Reclamation's contractor is expected to work closely with Reclamation, the Design Team, and the Project Team to ensure project objectives are clearly identified/understood and that proposed concepts will meet those objectives.  

To accomplish the tasks described herein, Reclamation's contractor will perform project management, technical analysis, and design, all of which will require staff time in an office setting as well as travel to the Wenatchee area to coordinate with other stakeholders.