The City of Panama City, Florida (the "City"), through the City's Project Management Office ("PMO") seeks Qualifications from experienced and qualified architects and/or engineers to provide Professional Services for designing a system to reduce flood risks by improving stormwater runoff and retention in the Robinson Bayou Watershed in Panama City, Florida. The scope of the project will include performing tasks such as data collection, surveying, review of existing conditions, and property identification and outreach, to design an overall plan to reduce flood risks by increasing stormwater runoff storage through restoring storm-damaged wetlands and reducing flow chokepoints along the Robinson Bayou channel (the "Project"), as is more fully described in Section 2, "RFQ Scope of Services" for the RFQ documents. This RFQ is issued pursuant to Section 287.055 of the Florida Statutes, the "Consultants Competitive Negotiation Act" ("CCNA"). All references to Florida Statutes, City of Panama City and Panama City Codes, and other laws/regulations will be interpreted to include "as amended from time to time." It is the sole responsibility of Proposers to ensure the receipt of all addenda. Therefore, it is recommended that firms periodically check the Panama City webpage for updates through the issuance of addenda. Panama City reserves the right to accept any Qualifications deemed to be in the best interest of the City, to waive any minor irregularities, scrivener's errors, minor omissions, minor deviations, and/or technicalities in any Qualifications, or to reject any or all Qualifications and to re-advertise for new Qualifications, in accordance with the applicable sections of the Florida Statutes, the City Charter and City Code, and this RFQ. The responsibility for submitting a Qualification before the stated time and date is solely and strictly that of the Proposer. The City is not responsible for any delayed, late, lost, misdelivered, or non-delivered Qualifications, no matter the cause. Proposers are advised that qualifications submitted with irregularities, deficiencies, and/or technicalities that deviate from the minimum qualifications, experience, and submission requirements of a request for qualifications ("rfq"), request for qualifications ("rfp"), Invitation to bid ("itb"), invitation for bids ("ifb"), invitation to quote ("itq"), requests for letters of interest ("rfli"), and request for sponsorships ("rfs") shall result in a non-responsive determination. Only minor irregularities, deficiencies, and technicalities may be allowed to be timely cured by proposers at the sole discretion of the city. Material irregularities, deficiencies, and technicalities cannot be cured by the proposer, and are not waivable by the city. Proposers are advised that all agreements negotiated with successful proposers for projects shall be time and materials type Agreements/contracts with a not to exceed ceiling. In no event shall a cost plus contract be awarded. The method of contractor selection has not been determined at this time.
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