Every lead line in Quenby out of the ground by 2036.
Response to RFQ QW-26-031, Program Management Services for Lead Service Line Replacement. Submitted by Cardew Engineering on November 6, 2026. Sections follow the RFQ’s own order, 1 through 9.
1Your RFQ asked for three things in one paragraph.
Section 1, Letter of interest. RFQ section 1.2 is quoted below as issued.
Find every lead line.
Replace the whole line, both sides of the curb stop, at no cost to the customer.
Finish by the end of 2036, and don’t leave the homes with the youngest children for last.
Quenby Water, RFQ QW-26-031, section 1.2, Program GoalsTo the evaluation panel. Cardew has organized this response around those three sentences. Section 2 shows the method on your own streets, with a lookup that tells any address what its line is made of and when it comes out. Section 3 answers each reviewer’s question in turn. The rest follows the RFQ’s order so it scores cleanly.
We’ve run lead programs before and we know where they slip. They slip on the inventory nobody verified, on the right-of-entry form nobody signed, and on the street that got repaved a month before the crew arrived. Each of those has its own answer on this page, with a number you can change.
The fee sits sealed in section 7, as section 6.1 requires. We’ve also said in section 9 where we take one exception and why.
Program Manager, Cardew Engineering
Where each scored criterion is answered, at its RFQ weight.
RFQ section 7, Evaluation. 100 points. Fee isn’t scored and opens only after ranking.
2.1Type an address. See what’s under it.
Section 2, Technical approach. Answers RFQ 3.2.1 and 3.2.2. Addresses and records are the example’s own.
Each house on a block has one service line. It runs from the main under the street to a curb stop at the property line, then on to the meter in the basement. Quenby owns the first half and the customer owns the second. We replace both, the same day, and the customer pays nothing.
Color follows the utility locate code. Blue is water, pink is a survey mark for anything not yet verified. Lead is drawn in hatched gray, galvanized steel in pale gray, copper in copper.
2.2Set the priorities. Watch ten years redraw.
Answers RFQ 3.3.1 and 3.3.2. Twelve neighborhoods, 22,000 lines, the city’s paving plan through 2032.
2.3One house on Tanner Street, from the knock to the new sidewalk.
Answers RFQ 3.2.3, 3.4.3 and 3.5.2. Scroll to run the day.
That’s one of about 2,500 days like it each year at full pace. Nine crews, each with a Cardew inspector on the street, each house signed off before the crew moves on.
3Five reviewers, five questions, answered in turn.
Section 3, Understanding of the Authority’s needs. Each chapter has its own working tool.
3.1Denise, the date only moves if the crew count does.
Will we finish by December 31, 2036, and what does the peak year cost?
The pace is set by crews, and each crew replaces about 278 lines a year once it’s up to speed. Year one is the inventory and three crews, year two ramps. Slide the crew count and the finish date, the peak year and our inspection fee move together. The same number drives section 5 and the fee in section 7.
Answers RFQ 3.3.3 and 3.6.1. Construction cost per line is Quenby’s own estimate of $11,400.
3.2Arturo, 4,100 lines are still marked unknown.
How do we verify them without digging up every one?
Answers RFQ 3.2.1. Each dot is ten lines from Quenby’s filed inventory.
3.3Wen, everything the RFQ asks for, with where to find it.
Is the submittal complete, and where does it depart from the terms?
3.4Keisha, a line we can’t get into is a line we come back for.
How many households sign the right-of-entry form before their street’s dig week?
Answers RFQ 3.4.1 and 3.4.2. Forecast from Cardew’s plan for Quenby, built week by week to the dig.
3.5For the Board, in plain words.
What will this mean for the people who call us?
Pick who’s asking. The answers are the ones our crews will give at the door.
In three sentences. Cardew finds every lead pipe in Quenby in the first year. We replace them one street at a time over ten years, starting where young children spend their days. Nobody pays for their own pipe, and nobody goes without water for more than an afternoon.
4Six people, named, on this program for its first three years.
Section 4, Key personnel and organization. Answers RFQ 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.3 and 4.1.
5Ten years, line by line, with a month to spare.
Section 5, Schedule and capacity. Answers RFQ 3.3.3. Bars follow the crew count set in 3.1, now 9.
Verify the 4,100 unknowns, open the public lookup in month four, design the first packages.
Six crews, then nine. The neighborhoods with the most children’s sites go first.
About 2,500 lines a year, each street dug ahead of the city’s repaving.
Last lines, final restoration, the inventory filed with the state as all non-lead.
6Every requirement, our response, and where it’s proved.
Section 6, Compliance with requirements. Filter by status or section, or search any RFQ reference.
| RFQ | Requirement | Our response | Shown in | Status |
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7The fee, line by line, so any line can come out cleanly.
Section 7, Fee schedule, on the revised form from Addendum 2. Sealed under RFQ 6.1, opened after ranking.
Rates are fixed for 2027 through 2029, then move with the CPI capped at 3 percent a year. Fees exclude construction, which Quenby bids and pays directly.
8What changed since the RFQ was issued, and how we answered.
Section 8, Clarifications and addenda. Both addenda acknowledged on Form B.
9Terms, the one exception, and the forms.
Section 9, Contract terms and required forms. Answers RFQ 4.2, 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3.
The terms, in plain words
- Quenby owns every record. Inventory, photos, consent forms and the lookup data are yours, in open formats, from day one.
- Billing is monthly against each year’s task budget in section 7, net 30, with no fee on construction cost.
- Key people stay. No named person in section 4 leaves the program in its first three years without your written approval.
- Either side can end it with 30 days’ notice. You pay for work done and nothing else.
- Insurance is $5M professional liability and $2M general liability, certificates in Form D.
Open questions, stated honestly
- Funding after 2031. The state revolving fund has committed through 2031. If later rounds shrink, the private side is where Quenby would feel it first. We’ll model it with your finance team in year one.
- The city’s paving plan stops at 2032. The map in 2.2 uses it through then and assumes nothing after.
- Landlords who won’t sign. RFQ 3.4.1 is silent on refusals. We propose a third visit and a letter from the General Manager, then the Board decides on any ordinance.
Our exception
The RFQ asks the program manager to indemnify Quenby for all claims arising from the program. We indemnify Quenby for our own negligence in full. We can’t insure against contractors’ means and methods we don’t control, so no carrier will cover it. Our proposed language follows.
Cardew shall indemnify the Authority against claims to the extent caused by the negligent acts, errors or omissions of Cardew, its employees or its subconsultants.
Disadvantaged business participation
- 21 percent against an 18 percent goal. Spread across inventory field work, outreach and inspection, listed by firm on Form C.
Shortlist interviews are December 8. We’ll bring the map.
The panel picks the order. We bring the team from section 4 and run the plan in 2.2 live with your weights.
Required forms
RFQ QW-26-031, section 9. Originals are enclosed with this response.
Addendum 1, issued September 29, 2026. Addendum 2, issued October 16, 2026.
Committed participation 21 percent against an 18 percent goal.