RFP for Waterway Study for Oakland-Alameda Estuary Bridge

The City of Alameda is pleased to release the RFP for a Waterway Study for the Oakland-Alameda Estuary Bridge Project.

RFP_WaterwayStudy_Oak-AlaEstBridge_2025-08-04.pdf(PDF, 759KB)

Submittal Deadline: Friday, August 22, 2025, 2:00 p.m. 

The City seeks to retain a consultant or consultant team to provide professional engineering services for a Waterway Study (Project) for a future Oakland Alameda Estuary Bridge project (Estuary Bridge). The Estuary Bridge is envisioned to be a moveable pedestrian/bicycle bridge connecting western Alameda and Jack London Square in Oakland. A Project Study Report-Project Development Support (PSR-PDS) for the Estuary Bridge was completed in June 2024, which identified the need for a Waterway Study of the Oakland Estuary.

The Project will assess the existing type, volume, frequency, operations and timing of vessels that traverse the Estuary in the project area. The major deliverables of the Study include comprehensive data on the vessels using the Estuary and desktop simulations of multiple potential bridge locations identified in the PSR-PDS, which will allow the development of the height and width parameters for a potential bridge. The Study will be used to inform the options studied in the next major phase of the Estuary Bridge project, the Environmental phase. 

The Waterway Study will be managed by the City, in close coordination with the key Project partners for this phase: the City of Oakland and the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG). The City seeks to have the Project completed before June 30, 2027.

This contract will be primarily funded by a Caltrans Sustainable Communities grant (Caltrans-City “Restricted Grant Agreement” or "RGA"). All grant conditions imposed on the City by the RGA will also apply to the selected consultant.

RFP Attachment E: Caltrans-City Restricted Grant Agreement (RGA, #74A15800)(PDF, 32MB)

* The City reserves the right to alter the above schedule, as necessary.