The City of Springfield, Massachusetts , acting through the Chief Procurement Officer of the City, issues this Request for Proposals to parties who have an interest in providing On-Call Home Rehabilitation and Construction Project Management Services for City rehabilitation and new construction projects funded by the Office of Community Development/Disaster Recovery. In connection with various projects the selected vendor will provide inspections, specifications, general advice and provide contractor oversight to the City during rehabilitation and new construction projects. The City intends to award one on-call contract, estimated at not to exceed $250,000 annually. These contracts may be utilized by other City Departments on an as needed basis with prior approval from the City of Springfield, Office of Community Development/Disaster Recovery. If selected, the Proposer, in a professional and proper manner, to the satisfaction of the City, and in accordance with the law and industry standards, shall provide the services enumerated herein. Please keep in mind the schedule of bid events and questions should be received early enough in the schedule to permit the City's responses to be sent to and received by all prospective Proposer(s). To be given consideration, any inquiry must be received at least seven (7) days prior to the date for receipt of the proposals specified above. Any and all such interpretations, supplemental instructions or information will be made in the form of written addenda which will be sent to all holders of the RFP. The City, in its sole discretion, may decline to provide the information requested. Any addenda so issued shall become part of the RFP. Responses to inquiries will be in the form of a numbered addendum to the specifications issued by the Office of Procurement and sent to all parties listed in the bid file as Proposer(s) having requested the bid documents from the Office of Procurement. Proposer should base responses only on the specifications including any addenda. PLEASE NOTE that all addenda must be acknowledged either in the bid response (there is a space for that purpose on the bid cover sheet) when submitted or by following the instructions on the addendum cover sheet. If using the latter means to acknowledge receipt, the Proposer must write the business name of the firm, sign the sheet and email it to lstabilo@springfieldcityhall.com or fax it to (413-787-6295) and/or include a copy of the sheet in the bid response. Failure to acknowledge any addendum may cause rejection of a bid response as required by chapter 30B. Proposer(s) are advised to call the Office of Procurement (413-787-6285) before sending their bid responses to confirm that all addenda are accounted for. The City of Springfield supports the goal of twenty percent minority and women participation in all contracts. No questions will be answered unless received by the Chief Procurement Officer at least 7 days prior to the expiration of the time set for submitting bids or proposals. The Chief Procurement Officer reserves the right to waive any informality in and to reject any or all bids if it is in the public interest to do so.
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