The City of Newberg is seeking general engineering support services with at least 30 billable hours per week to supplement its in-house engineering team’s capabilities. Of these hours, seven (7) must be in person in our offices in Newberg to facilitate close cooperation with our Community Development Department and senior staff.

These hours will be dedicated the following tasks:

  • General land use engineering review work in concert with one of our Senior Engineers.
  • Representing the City of Newberg by assuming the title and responsibilities as our City Engineer (per City Charter a named individual will assume this role).
  • The City Engineer will be the in-person representative for the City for its overall engineering efforts.
  • The City Engineer will occasionally attend City Council meetings, but these sessions can be conducted remotely.
  • Providing the City Manager with a “second opinion” to engineering conclusions provided by external and internal stakeholders.
  • Examining additional capital improvement engineering design work and taking on such work if the contractor has the capacity and desire to do so, see right of first refusal below.
  • Providing the City Manager with suggestions for engineering process improvements connected to project management.

Proposals should be prepared simply and economically, providing a straightforward, concise description of proposer's capabilities to satisfy the requirements of the RFQ. Emphasis should be on completeness and clarity of the content.

The City, at its sole discretion, has the right to negotiate with any or all proposers regarding their proposals. Additionally, the City may reject or accept any or all proposals or parts thereof, submitted in response to this RFQ.

Written proposals in response to this Request For Qualifications (RFQ) must be submitted via email to will.worthey@newbergoregon.gov no later than the proposal due date of 5:00p.m., Pacific Time, on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, to Will Worthey, City Manager.

This correspondence and any additional correspondence must contain the following in the subject line of every email sent connected to this matter RE: Newberg City General Engineering RFQ 2024. Emails without this clear marker will not be assessed as part of the RFQ or its responses.

Full details about this request for qualifications can be found included in the PDF below.