This is a service / maintenance or supply contract in Lake Mary, Florida. Contact the soliciting agency for additional information.

NOTICE OF REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS CABOT CITRUS FARMS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT CONTINUING LANDSCAPE AND HARDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE SERVICES Hernando County, Florida The Cabot Citrus Farms Community Development District ("District") is soliciting qualification documents detailing qualifications to provide continuing Landscape and Hardscape Architecture services for the construction of the District's Capital Improvement Plan. The selected firm will provide landscape and hardscape Architecture services, as more particularly described in the Request for Qualifications Package ("RFQ"). To be eligible to submit qualification documents ("Response"), and in addition to any other requirements set forth in the RFQ, an interested firm must: (i) hold all required local, state and federal licenses in good standing; and (ii) be authorized to do business in Hernando County and the State of Florida. The RFQ will be available beginning October 28, 2024 at 9:00 A.M. EST by emailing Shirley Conley at sconley@vestapropertyservices.com. Respondents must provide contact information in order to receive the RFQ, and, in that way, will be added to the District's distribution list for the RFQ and any subsequent addenda thereto. The District reserves the right in its sole discretion to make changes to the RFQ up until the time of the opening, and to provide notice of such changes only to those Respondents who have received a RFQ. A public meeting will be separately noticed and conducted to open the responses and read the names of the Respondents. Responses will be evaluated in accordance with the criteria included in the RFQ. The District reserves the right to reject any and all responses, make modifications to the work, award the contract in whole or in part with or without cause, provide for the delivery of the Capital Improvement Plan in phases, and waive minor or technical irregularities in any proposal, as it deems appropriate, if it determines in its discretion that it is in the District's best interests to do so. Any person who wishes to protest the RFQ Package, or any component thereof, shall file with the District a written notice of protest within seventy-two (72) calendar hours (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and state holidays) of the download of the RFQ, and shall file a formal written protest with the District within seven (7) calendar days (including Saturdays, Sundays, and state holidays) after the date of timely filing the initial notice of protest. Any notice of protest must be accompanied by a protest bond in a form acceptable to the District and in the amount of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00). In the event the protest is successful, the protest bond shall be refunded to the protestor. In the event the protest is unsuccessful, the protest bond shall be applied towards the District's costs, expenses and attorney's fees associated with hearing and defending the protest. Filing will be perfected and deemed to have occurred upon receipt by the District Manager, Vesta District Services, 250 International Parkway, Suite 208, Lake Mary, FL 32746. Failure to timely file a notice of protest or failure to timely file a formal written protest shall constitute a waiver of any right to object to or protest the contents of the District's RFQ Package or the processes described therein. The formal written protest shall state with particularity the facts and law upon which the protest is based. Additional requirements for filing a protest can be found in the District's Rules of Procedure, which are available upon request. Any and all questions relative to this RFQ or the Capital Improvement Plan shall be directed in writing by e-mail only to Kyle Darin, at kdarin@vestapropertyservices.com, with e-mail copies to Michael Eckert at Michael.Eckert@kutakrock.com, the District Engineer at cabotcdd@coastal-engineering.com and John Jarrard at jjarrard@cabotcitrusfarms.com. No phone inquiries please. Cabot Citrus Farms Community Development District Kyle Darin, District Manager.