Site work for a playground / park / athletic field in Greenville, South Carolina. Conceptual plans call for site work for a playground / park / athletic field.

PRE-PROPOSAL MEETING: N/A Any revisions to this Request for Proposals will be issued and distributed as an addendum. All addenda, additional communications, responses to questions, etc. pertaining to the RFP will be posted on the City of Greenville website. All offerors should consult this website for updates before submitting proposals. DEADLINE ENFORCED Proposals received after the time and date set for receipt of proposals WILL NOT be accepted. It is the offeror's responsibility to ensure timely delivery of their proposal. Telephone, email, or facsimile proposals will not be accepted. From time to time, the Purchasing Division may have to release written changes to a solicitation due to an inadvertent error or omission on the part of the City or to an inquiry from an interested vendor during the question phase of the solicitation. No changes to the published terms and conditions, scope of work, minimum requirements, or insurance and bonding requirements will be considered unless they are submitted in compliance with the deadline for the questions or clarification phase of the solicitation. Any changes to the published terms and conditions, scope of work, minimum requirements, or insurance and bonding requirements will be published in a formal, written addendum. The City is not obligated to make any changes to the published solicitation based on an inquiry from a vendor. The City will not consider "red-line" amendments to any contract with the successful bidder, as all requests for changes must be posed in the question phase and accepted in a formal addendum. The City reserves the right to negotiate with the successful bidder in order to comply with budgetary allocations. Any offer submitted as a result of this solicitation shall be binding on the offeror for NINETY (90) CALENDAR DAYS FOLLOWING THE SPECIFIED OPENING DATE. Any proposal for which the offeror specifies a shorter acceptance period may be rejected. During the performance of the contract, the contractor shall comply with any and all applicable federal, state, or local laws, rules, and regulations relating to a drug-free workplace. If the offeror discovers any ambiguity, conflict, discrepancy, omission or other errors in the RFP, offeror shall immediately notify the City of such error in writing and request modification or clarification of the document. The offeror is responsible for clarifying any ambiguity, conflict, discrepancy, omission, or other error in the RFP, or it shall be deemed waived. Proprietary and/or Confidential Information Your proposal is a public document under the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), except as to information that may be exempt from disclosure under the FOIA in the City's sole discretion. If you cannot agree to this standard, please do not submit your proposal. All information that you desire to be treated as confidential and/or proprietary must be CLEARLYAND SPECIFICALLY identified, and each page containing confidential and/or proprietary information, in whole or in part, must be stamped and/or denoted as CONFIDENTIAL, in bold, in a font of at least 12-point type, in the upper right-hand corner of the page. All information not so noted and identified may be disclosed by the City. Blanket-type identification by designating whole pages or sections as containing confidential and/or proprietary information will not ensure confidentiality. This Request for Proposals is being issued by the City of Greenville Purchasing Division. Direct all questions or requests for clarification of this RFP in writing to the e-mail address shown on page one (1) of this invitation. Current E-mail Address Required All proposals submitted shall include a current e-mail address. Once selected, Notice of Intent to Award shall be posted on the City's website; and Notice of Intent to Award, and notices of nonaward, shall be sent to all offerors via e-mail. No hard copy notices will be sent via regular mail. Offerors are specifically directed not to contact any other City personnel for meetings, conferences, or technical discussions related to this request unless otherwise stated in this RFP. Failure to adhere to this policy may be grounds for rejection of your proposal. Required Affidavits Firms submitting proposals are required to include all affidavits found at the end of this Request for Proposals. If any of the affidavits are not applicable, N/A is an acceptable response. Protest of Solicitation or Award Solicitation - Section 2.6. A. of the City of Greenville Procurement Policy allows any prospective bidder, offeror, contractor who is aggrieved in connection with the solicitation of a contract to protest to the Purchasing Administrator within ten (10) calendar days of the date of issuance of the Invitation for Bids or Request for Proposals or other solicitation documents, whichever is applicable, or any amendment thereto. Any protest shall be in writing, submitted to the Purchasing Administrator, as stated above, and shall set forth the grounds of protest and the relief requested with enough particularity to give notice of the issues to be decided. Award - Section 2.6. B. of the City of Greenville Procurement Policy allows any actual bidder, offeror, contractor who is aggrieved in connection with the intended award or award of a contract to protest to the City Manager within ten (10) calendar days of the date the notification of award is posted in accordance with this policy. Any protest shall be in writing, submitted to the City Manager, as stated above, and shall set forth the grounds of protest and the relief requested with enough particularity to give notice of the issues to be decided. The words "Bidder", "Offeror", "Proposer", "Vendor", and "Contractor" are used interchangeably throughout this RFP, and are used in place of the person, firm, or corporation submitting a proposal. Question Deadline 12/04/2024 at 2:00 PM ET