This is a service / maintenance or supply contract in New Haven, Connecticut. Contact the soliciting agency for additional information.

The City of New Haven ("City") is seeking a qualified consulting firm or consulting team ("Consultant") to design and implement quick-build/tactical urbanism demonstration projects City-wide to advance the City's Safe Routes for All Citywide Active Transportation Plan ("SRFA") and other transportation goals, funded by the federal Safe Streets & Roads for All (SS4A) grant program. These projects would include safety, traffic calming, and active transportation elements. Work will be performed in accordance with the SS4A Grant Program, as awarded to the City under the Fiscal Year 2022 SS4A Grant Program. Question & Clarification Deadline:December 6, 2024, 5:00pm Questions are submitted through Electronically. Any written Inquiry for Clarification must be received seven (7) or more business days prior to the Closing Date. Any request received by the City after this deadline will not be given consideration. Execution of Contract In executing the Agreement, the Awardee will be required to reaffirm and restate all representations made in its Response Submission. After the notice of award and within ten (10) days after the prescribed forms are presented for signature, the Awardee shall execute and deliver to the City the Agreement in the form included in the Contract Documents, in such number of copies as the City shall require. The failure of the Awardee to execute such Agreement, pay any taxes due, to supply the required bonds or submit the Certificate of Insurance, all within ten (10) days after the prescribed forms are presented for signature, or within such extended period as the City grants based upon reasons determined sufficient by the City, shall constitute a default and the City reserves the right to any remedies available at law or in equity including pursuit of Bid Bond. The City may either award the Contract to the next lowest responsible Respondent or re-advertise the Solicitation. Performance Labor and Material Bonds - (see Project Summary for applicability)Having satisfied all conditions of award as set forth elsewhere in these documents, the successful Respondent shall, within the period specified in paragraph "A" above, furnish a bond in a penal sum not less than the amount of the Contract as awarded, as security for the faithful performance of the Contract, and a labor and material bond for payment of all persons, firms or corporations to whom the Contractor may become legally indebted for labor, materials, tools, equipment, or services of any nature including utility and transportation services, employed or used by him in performing the work. Such bonds shall be in the same form as those included in the Solicitation Documents and shall bear the same date, or a date after that of the Agreement. These bonds shall be signed and issued by a guaranty or surety company satisfactory to the City, authorized and qualified to do business in the State of Connecticut, and listed in the latest issue of the U.S. Treasury Circular 570, and the penal sum of any such bond shall be within the maximum specified for such company in said Circular 570. The current power of attorney for the person who signs for any surety company shall be attached to such bonds. Commencement of Work - The City will not be responsible for payment of any work performed or materials supplied by the successful respondent before the Contractor receives a fully executed agreement unless an emergency situation has been declared by a City employee duly empowered to do so, and the vendor receives written authorization from this individual to proceed. Note: Responsibility for payment shall be limited to only that work deemed necessary by the City to alleviate the immediate emergency. Once a contract is executed the City department responsible for requesting the work will issue a Notice to Proceed. The method of Contractor Selection has not been Determined at this time.