Renovation of a municipal facility in Lillington, North Carolina. Completed plans call for the renovation of a municipal facility.

PURPOSE AND SCOPE The County of Harnett, Community Development Division is soliciting statements of qualifications and proposals for contractors qualified to provide major/minor house repairs. The County of Harnett (Harnett County) has two programs focusing on home repairs for very low-to-low income homeowner occupied homes. The County received a USDA FY24 Home Preservation Grant and has FY24 local funds budgeted for a 'Handy-Man' type program. Contractors for either program may have potential project jobs for HVAC repairs, window replacement, minor plumbing repairs, floors, ramps, roofing, environmental sealing, et cetera. Maximum allocation for USDA funded repairs will be $10,000 per home while the maximum allocated for the 'Handy-Man' program has a maximum of $1,000 per home. Harnett County anticipates a maximum of eight (8) homes for the USDA grant program. Local funded 'Handy-Man' program will be a maximum of 10 homes. Community Development Division has yet to select homes to rehabilitate/repair but seeks interested contractors to pool additional information, resources and opportunities. INSTRUCTIONS TO PROPOSERS Responders are not required to have NC General Contractors License since the identified homes rehab/repair proposals will be under $30,000. However, other trades requiring a permit will have to attain required permits. All responders are notified that Harnett County has a verifiable five percent (5%) goal for participation by minority owned and women owned businesses in the total value of Work for which prime contractors are awarded pursuant to North Carolina General Statutes Section 143-128. However, Harnett County encourages all contractors to send a proposal for consideration. Submit Written Questions Contractor January 26, 2024 PROPOSAL QUESTIONS Upon review of the RFP documents, Contractors may have questions to clarify work contained in this RFP in order to submit the best proposal possible. To accommodate the Proposal Questions process, Contractors must submit any such questions by the above due date. Questions from Contractors will be emailed to: Renea Warren-Ford, Procurement Specialist, purchasing.support@harnett.org. Contractor should enter "RFP #GS-02062024 - Questions" as the subject for the email. LEAD-BASED PAINT The Contractor is hereby specifically made aware of the DCA lead-based paint regulations, 4 NCAC 19L, Rule .1011, which are applicable to the construction or rehabilitation of residential structures. To the extent that the subject matter of this RFP involves residential structures, the Contractor will comply with the lead-based paid regulations. NON-DISCRIMINATION: Section 109, Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 No person in the United States shall on the ground of race, color, national origin or sex be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity funded in whole or in part with funds available under this title. Discrimination Act of 1975, As Amended, Non-discrimination on the Bases of Age No qualified person shall on the basis of age be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or otherwise be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity which receives or benefits from Federal financial assistance. Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as Amended, Non-discrimination on the Basis of Handicap No qualified handicapped person shall, on the basis of handicap be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or otherwise be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity which receives or benefits from Federal financial assistance. Davis-Bacon Act, as amended (40 U.S.C. 3141-3148). When required by Federal program legislation, all prime construction contracts in excess of $2,000 awarded by non-Federal entities must include a provision for compliance with the Davis-Bacon Act (40 U.S.C. 3141-3144, and 3146-3148) as supplemented by Department of Labor regulations (29 CFR Part 5, "Labor Standards Provisions Applicable to Contracts Covering Federally Financed and Assisted Construction"). In accordance with the statute, contractors must be required to pay wages to laborers and mechanics at a rate not less than the prevailing wages specified in a wage determination made by the Secretary of Labor. In addition, contractors must be required to pay wages not less than once a week. The non-Federal entity must place a copy of the current prevailing wage determination issued by the Department of Labor in each solicitation. The decision to award a contract or subcontract must be conditioned upon the acceptance of the wage determination. The non-Federal entity must report all suspected or reported violations to the Federal awarding agency. The contracts must also include a provision for compliance with the Copeland "Anti-Kickback" Act (40 U.S.C. 3145), as supplemented by Department of Labor regulations (29 CFR Part 3, "Contractors and Subcontractors on Public Building or Public Work Financed in Whole or in Part by Loans or Grants from the United States"). The Act provides that each contractor or sub recipient must be prohibited from inducing, by any means, any person employed in the construction, completion, or repair of public work, to give up any part of the compensation to which he or she is otherwise entitled. The non-Federal entity must report all suspected or reported violations to the Federal awarding agency. Submit Written Questions Contractor January 26, 2024