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JOB POSTING: Transportation Engineer Specialist The Division of Professional Services is competitively hiring a Transportation Engineer Specialist. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to help procure professional service contracts for transportation projects, including being involved in consultant prequalification, building RFPs, qualifications-based consultant selection, scoping projects, developing estimates and negotiating contracts, as well as various other procurement tasks. The open position will also communicate with various Cabinet staff and the consultant industry to apply policy and establish technology updates. The Transportation Engineer Specialist is expected to learn operational fundamentals of the Division from experienced staff to prepare for a potential leadership position.
Please click the link here to view the full job posting. The advertisement closes on Sunday, June 4th at 8pm ET.
Please help us share this critical position with interested candidates within the Transportation Cabinet and across the engineering consultant industry. If you have any questions about this job advertisement, please contact eric.pelfrey@ky.gov.
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Start Date:
5/25/2023 11:00 AM |
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NOTICE: Award of Alternative Delivery Projects
Progressive design-build (PDB) and construction manager/general contractor (CM/GC) contracts are awarded using a Qualifications-Based Selection (QBS) process. For both PDB and CM/GC projects, the memorandum linked below describes the procedure for initially selecting proposals and negotiations that occur during the Preconstruction Phase to arrive at a guaranteed maximum price (GMP) for construction activities.
Note: This reference document will also permanently be available under the Policies & Forms tab at the top of this website. |
Start Date:
5/19/2023 11:00 AM |
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Note: Prequalified consultant engineering firms desiring to provide these services must submit their electronic response(s) through the Professional Services Consultant Portal. We will not be accepting hard copy responses in any format for this Bulletin. |
Start Date:
5/9/2023 9:00 AM |
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EVENT: KYTC Scholarship 75th Anniversary This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Transportation Cabinet's Civil Engineering Scholarship Program! We are celebrating this milestone on Thursday, June 29, from 9-11:30 a.m. Eastern at the Transportation Cabinet Office Building in Frankfort. We invite all current and former KYTC Civil Engineering scholarship recipients to attend. Please click the link here to RSVP.
Please help us spread the word to former scholarship recipients who have retired or are no longer working for the cabinet. We would love to celebrate this accomplishment with as many recipients as possible.
Thank you! Questions? Contact Ramona Brock at Ramona.Brock@ky.gov.
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Start Date:
4/25/2023 3:00 PM |
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NOTICE: New ORD Production-Hour Worksheet The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) has transitioned design from InRoads to OpenRoads Design (ORD). The Division of Professional Services has teamed with the Division of Highway Design to partner with KYTC District Offices and ACEC-KY for this new design method. The new ORD Production-Hour Worksheet and ORD Production-Hour Descriptions have been a work in progress for a few months and have now become the default delivery method. Effective today, Tuesday, April 18th, all new contracts and contract modifications shall default to using the ORD Production-Hour Worksheet. All statewide highway design projects may also choose to use the ORD Production-Hour Worksheet.
Websites for the Division of Highway Design and the Division of Professional Services now host the ORD Production-Hour Worksheet and corresponding ORD Production-Hour Descriptions. The Consultant Portal has also been updated to default to these items while any additional tasks may be submitted as miscellaneous items.
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Start Date:
4/18/2023 12:00 PM |
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Note: Prequalified consultant engineering firms desiring to provide these services must submit their electronic response(s) through the Professional Services Consultant Portal. We will not be accepting hard copy responses in any format for this Bulletin. |
Start Date:
4/11/2023 9:00 AM |
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NOTICE: New Complete Streets, Roads, and Highways Training The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) is excited to announce the development of the new Complete Streets, Roads, and Highways Manual. Historically, streets and highways were designed around motor vehicle traffic and did not always consider alternative modes of transportation. Today, our transportation planners and designers approach roadway development holistically, taking the needs of all users into account and construct facilities accordingly. To accompany the release of the manual, KYTC is offering a series of full-day workshop at locations across the commonwealth. This workshop will be a requirement for prequalification for Bicycle and Pedestrian Planning and Design starting in January 2024. Please visit KYTC's Complete Streets website (https://transportation.ky.gov/BikeWalk/Pages/Complete-Streets.aspx) to register for one of the sessions today!
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Start Date:
3/31/2023 1:00 PM |
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NOTICE: Brent Spence Bridge Corridor Project – Quality Assurance Manager/Owner's Representative The Quality Assurance Manager/Owner's Representative consultant will work post Award to assist owners with review of Progressive Design Build Team (DBT) design submissions, buildable units, and value engineering proposals. The consultant will provide quality assurance management for all design components of the design build contract, including submissions during construction such as temporary shoring, MSE wall shop drawings, structure shop drawings, etc. The Design Quality Control will be the responsibility of the DBT. Staff will be required to co-locate with the DBT.
ODOT - Brent Spence Procurement Website
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Start Date:
3/28/2023 12:00 PM |
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Note: Prequalified consultant engineering firms desiring to provide these services must submit their electronic response(s) through the Professional Services Consultant Portal. We will not be accepting hard copy responses in any format for this Bulletin. |
Start Date:
3/14/2023 9:00 AM |
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NOTICE: KYTC Executive Code of Ethics The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet reminds its consultant and contractor partners of the restricted activities according to the Executive Code of Ethics as enacted in KRS 11A. Any Consultant shall abide by the following terms in order to maintain prequalification: Any consultant certifies that the firm and its employees will not offer or provide gifts to KYTC employees in excess of $25.00 in any single calendar year as defined in KRS 11A.045 (1) and Department General Administration and Personnel Policy GAP-808. Moreover, any consultant certifies that firm and its employees will not offer any ticket to a sporting event to a KYTC employee without being reimbursed the face value amount for said ticket as defined in KRS 11A.045 (2). It is agreed and understood that non-compliance with the above provisions may result in the suspension of vendor procurement participation, contract termination, loss of prequalification, and/or debarment of the firm. SHE Industry Reminder
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Start Date:
2/8/2023 9:00 AM |
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NOTICE: KYTC Utility Coordination Training & Certification The Division of Right of Way, Utilities & Rails is offering a training course. This training provides education on utilities and how they are coordinated with KYTC projects. The first day provides a high level understanding of conducting utility coordination through a project's development process. The second day is intended for utility coordinators and is also a certification requirement for firm performing utility coordination and inspection duties. There is an emphasis on utility impact avoidance, minimization, and the coordination of remaining impacts through utility relocations for the accommodation of roadway construction. KYTC Utility Coordination Training & Certification Prequalification Criteria & Instructions (pages 60-62) Please register for training sessions held in Frankfort on March 21-22, May 16-17, or July 18-19 or contact Shanna.Morgan@uky.edu for more information.
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Start Date:
1/27/2023 9:00 AM |
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NOTICE: Revised Affidavit for Bidders, Offerors and Contractors The Finance Cabinet has revised the required Affidavit for Bidders, Offerors and Contractors form as required by KRS 45A.110 and KRS 45A.115. Effective immediately, the revised Affidavit is required to be completed, signed, and uploaded to the Consultant Portal for a firm to be eligible for annual prequalifications. As before, this abbreviated form still includes an Effective Date and will remain in place for all submittals for one year until the Expiration Date. The terms and conditions have been removed from the form and will now be included directly within consultant contracts as an Appendix. Please see the linked Memorandum below for additional details.
Revised Affidavit Memo Required Affidavit for Bidders, Offerors and ContractorsNote: This revised Affidavit will also permanently be available under the Forms tab at the top of this website.
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Start Date:
1/26/2023 1:30 PM |
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NOTICE: 2023 Direct Costs for Mileage, Meals, and Lodging
The Division of Professional Services has updated annual reimbursement rates for 2023, as governed by 200 KAR 2:006. Please see the linked memorandum for specific reimbursement rates for mileage, meals, and lodging.
Note: This reference document will also permanently be available under the Policies & Forms tab at the top of this website. |
Start Date:
1/3/2023 8:00 AM |
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Start Date:
12/13/2022 4:00 PM |
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NOTICE: 2022 Prequalification Criteria and Instructions Update
The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has posted revisions to the Prequalification Criteria and Instructions document, which serves as the basis for determining minimum eligibility of firms within each service category. Each firm that desires to retain prequalifications or become prequalified with the Cabinet in any new service area must submit a full prequalification application prior to response to advertisement. These prequalifications are to be submitted electronically via the Consultant Portal by clicking the Consultant Management widget. Hard copy submittals are no longer received. The website to visit to submit prequalifications is https://apps.transportation.ky.gov/professionalservices. Each firm must submit an updated Prequalification Application (TC 40-1 form) for review prior to the firm's annual renewal date. It is the sole responsibility of the firm to initiate a renewal of its prequalification with the Cabinet. The request should include a Certification of Professional Liability Insurance, a Certificate of Workers Compensation, an Employment Insurance policy, and a Financial Statement. The firm must also upload an annual affidavit of the Campaign Finance form, linked below. The firm must also comply with an Ethics Certification which is not a form and does not require a document upload. These documents shall be uploaded for review by Professional Services staff and retained for compliance. The firm may be removed from the Cabinet's listing of prequalified consultants if an application is not received within thirty (30) days of its annual renewal date. Please contact Ashley Jewell via email with any prequalification submittal process inquiries at Ashley.Caldwell@ky.gov. Please review the various links below for further details and reference: The Division of Professional Services anticipates this document will remain until December 2023 when the next updates become available prior to the 2024 full renewal cycle. Note: These reference documents will also permanently be available under the Prequalification tab at the top of this website. |
Start Date:
1/7/2022 5:00 PM |
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NOTICE: Consultant Portal Launch The Division of Professional Services has now launched the new online portal for consultants and KYTC project managers. This portal has migrated the information from and will overhaul our existing Sharepoint-based system into a more user-friendly interface for KYTC users. Consultants will also now be permitted with access to the enhanced project management database and contract document library. Full procurement workflows and contract status history are available, resulting in quicker procurement times.
All future advertisements and production-hour estimates will be submitted and contracts or contract modifications will be electronically signed within this new system, even for existing contracts.
To request access to the system, please click the appropriate link and follow the attached User Authorization Guide below: Internal KYTC users: External consultant users:
In addition, a detailed User Guide has been developed to assist users navigate the system:
For any questions, please contact the Division of Professional Services at 502.564.4555.
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Start Date:
9/4/2019 1:30 PM |
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