Tech Scope of Work

• Title: Scope of Work for Technical Assistance
• IBCC - Doc Type: Program Planning, Budget & Contracts

Scope of Work
For
Technical Assistance for Basin Roundtables

Introduction:

Colorado’s House Bill 1177 created the “Interbasin Compact Process,” including nine
basin roundtables covering the following geographic areas in Colorado: the Arkansas; the
Colora do; the Dolores, San Miguel and San Juan; the Gunnison; the Metro (roughly the
Denver metro area); the North Platte; the Rio Grande; the South Platte and the Yampa -
White and the Interbasin Compact Committee (IBCC). The IBCC coordinates issues and
activitie s between roundtables, and address water issues of co ncern to the State as a
whole. Potential bidders are encouraged to review relevant legislation, program
documents, the IBCC Charter, roundtable bylaws, and recent roundtable/IBCC activities,
and discuss relevant elements in their statement of qualifications.

Scope of Work:

This scope of work is for technical assistance to be provided to the Colorado Department
of Natural Resources /Colorado Water Conservation Board, the IBCC, and the nine basin
roundtab les between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007. The purpose of this assistance is to
take task orders from roundtables to assist them with their needs assessments.
Roundtables must conduct a basin - wide water needs assessment consisting of four parts:
1) anal ysis of consumptive water demands; 2) analysis of non - consumptive water
demands; 3) analysis of water supplies and un - appropriated water; and 4) proposed
projects and/or methods, either structural or non - structural, to meet identified water
needs. Technic al assistance through this contract will support the roundtables in
compiling and analyzing existing information (including information from SWSI Phase I
and Phase II), updating and refining existing information, and developing new
information to further t heir needs assessment.

Tasks:

Task orders will come from the roundtables through the state project manager(s) .
Contractor will work with roundtables and the state project manager(s) to develop their
task orders. Task orders may include reconnaissance, feasibility study, or design level
ana lysis. I nformation from existing information/data sources will be utilized to the
maximum extent possible. Task orders are intended to fill data gaps or refine information
as needed. T ask orders may include:

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Evalua tion of basin demographic, economic, and social trends. Example tasks
may include but are not limited to: evaluating current and projected population
and other key demographic factors; evaluating the role of water in a basin’s major
economic sectors; and analyzing the social setting surrounding water
management.