Summary
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NC DEQ) is soliciting proposals through this RFP for full delivery projects within the Neuse River Basin (Hydrologic Cataloguing Unit 03020201). The selected vendor must provide warm stream, riparian wetland, and riparian buffer mitigation credits, along with nutrient offset-phosphorus mitigation credits, to support the State's water quality, stream habitat, and ecological restoration initiatives. The contract term is an initial 10-year period with the option of two additional one-year extensions, and the vendor will provide turnkey services including site identification, design, construction, monitoring, verification, and long-term protection via a conservation easement held by the State of North Carolina.