ATC Seeks Architects, Structural Engineers, and Other Qualified Professionals to Provide Services for New Project Focused on California K-12 Public Schools
The Applied Technology Council (ATC) was awarded a grant by the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services to conduct a project that will develop mitigation strategies and obtain data that can be used by California K-12 public school districts to help them prioritize their most vulnerable school buildings for seismic mitigation, understand the costs and benefits of different seismic mitigation strategies, and seek funding to support future projects.
ATC is partnering with the California Department of General Services’ Division of the State Architect (DSA) in the conduct of this project. The project will utilize data generated as part of the seismic-safety study published in 2002 by DSA that identified 7,537 K-12 public schools across the state that potentially will not achieve life-safety performance in future earthquakes. Due to their age, it is assumed that none of these buildings meets the requirements of the 1976 Uniform Building Code, which introduced substantial improvements in seismic design requirements, and all of these buildings rely on structural systems that are known to have potential for damage and collapse during large earthquakes.
The project will produce a publicly available resource guide to help California K-12 public school districts prioritize and take action on their most seismically vulnerable school buildings. The resource guide will include information and lessons learned about available mitigation funding from FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) and California’s Seismic Mitigation Program (SMP) administered by the Office of Public School Construction. A goal of the project is to provide guidance and data tailored for high-need school districts, such as those serving large percentages of disadvantaged students, because of the significant obstacles they encounter in upgrading their facilities. The project will conduct targeted educational outreach to school districts and will assist one high-need school district to prepare an application for funding to seismically mitigate one or more of its most vulnerable buildings.
ATC seeks to select highly experienced architects, structural engineers, and qualified professionals in use of the FEMA BCA Toolkit and construction cost estimating to provide services in the conduct of work on this project. The deadline to submit a Statement of Qualifications in response to the Request for Qualifications (RFQ) is November 21, 2025, at 5pm Pacific
Responses to RFQ Questions Received
Seismic Safety Inventory of California Public Schools