MPCA Watershed Master Contract

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) is seeking proposals from qualified environmental contractors to support the MPCA's Watershed Division on statewide, basin-wide, water body, and watershed scale projects. The goal of the Watershed Master Contract is to support the State in investigating, modeling, and documenting water quality data and actions to improve water quality. The contract will be for a 5-year term, with a total budget of approximately $3,500,000. The successful contractor will provide modeling and watershed services, including modifying and using Hydrological Simulation Program – FORTRAN (HSPF), developing Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDL) and TMDL reports, assisting with Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) updates, and providing watershed analyses, data services, information storage, accessibility, visualization, and dissemination using appropriate geospatial standards and metadata guidelines. • The contract will be divided into two categories of service: Category 1 (HSPF modeling) and Category 2 (Watershed Services). • The evaluation of each proposer's capabilities will be based primarily on the tasks performed in those categories. • Multiple contractors will be selected to conduct tasks statewide. • The contract will start on July 1, 2026, and the total amount of money available for work under this Master Contract is approximately $3,500,000 for five years.