This is a service / maintenance or supply contract in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Contact the soliciting agency for additional information.

The City of Pittsburgh, Office of Management and Budget, is soliciting proposals from qualified individuals and firms for to engage in open-ended contracts for various Professional Service categories. The City of Pittsburgh is inviting professionals and firms to qualify for a pre-selection of vendors who meet the mandatory criteria for the categories of work listed under Scope of Work. Firms may submit qualifications for any number and/or combination of the Categories of Work herein. The City may choose to award multiple categories of work if the professionals and/or firms are deemed qualified for more than one category and able to support City needs. Once under contract, the selected firms will be able to submit proposals for work order requests. The sample agreements accompanying this solicitation will be part of each individual contract. Changes or alterations to these terms and conditions will not be accepted. Contract Award: Ongoing-Applications will be receivable until December 2027 The City of Pittsburgh is committed to the ideal of providing all citizens an equal opportunity to participate in City and its Authorities' contracting opportunities. It is therefore the City's goal to encourage increased participation of women and minority groups in all City contracts. The City requires that all respondents demonstrate good faith efforts to obtain the participation of Minority-Owned Business Enterprises (MBE's) and Women-Owned Business Enterprises (WBE's) in work to be performed under City contracts. The levels of MBE and WBE participation will be monitored by the City of Pittsburghs Equal Opportunity Review Commission (EORC). In order to ensure that there are opportunities for historically disadvantaged minority groups and women to participate on Covered Contracts, and consistent with the City's current equal employment opportunity practice and goals, the EORC will review contracts to include an evaluation of a developer/contractors employment of minority groups and women, encourage goals of eighteen (18) percent and seven (7) percent respectively After the City has received all Proposals and conducted its initial Evaluation, described above, the Proposal Committee may invite one or more Respondents to a follow-up interview to further discuss their Proposal(s). The Proposal Committee may decide to accept the Proposal of one or more Respondents. It may decide to reject all proposals. Once a Proposal is accepted, the contract negotiation process will commence. This ITQ and your response to it, in the form of your entire Proposal, will become part of the Contract. If a real or apparent conflict should arise between this ITQ/Proposal and other language contained in the final Contract, the language of the final Contract shall control Respondent’s proposal shall remain firm and effective, subject to the City’s review and approval, for a period of one hundred twenty (120) days from the closing date for the receipt of proposals. The City may enter into negotiations with one or more Respondents during the one hundred twenty (120) day period during which all proposals will stay effective. The purpose of such negotiations will be to address questions and identify issues as the parties move towards the execution of a final contract or contracts. This RFP does not commit the City to enter into a contract, nor does it obligate the City to pay for any costs incurred in preparation and submission of proposals or in anticipation of a contract.