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Indian River Lagoon council approves RFP rankings, authorizes contracts and allocates $100,000 to local septic-to-sewer project
Summary
The council accepted ranked RFP lists for water quality, habitat and science awards, authorized staff to negotiate contracts contingent on available funds, and voted unanimously to move $100,000 from an unallocated habitat pot to Indian River County's North Sebastian septic-to-sewer project.
At its Feb. 13 quarterly meeting, the Indian River Lagoon Council accepted ranked recommendations from volunteer reviewers for three categories of requests for proposals and authorized staff to negotiate contracts with the top-ranked applicants, contingent on available funds and final budget authority.
Dr. Dwayne DeVries, the council's executive staff lead, described the RFP process and scoring method. "When we get that ranked order, we throw out the high scores and the low scores in order to, you know, normalize the data," he said, explaining conflict-of-interest rules for volunteer reviewers and the 75% eligibility threshold used to select projects.
In the water-quality category, top-ranked proposals included Fort Pierce Utilities…
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