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Landscape and Irrigation Maintenance Services Lakewood Ranch Stewardship District requests Qualifications Submittals from firms interested in providing landscape and irrigation maintenance services in Manatee and Sarasota Counties, Florida. To be eligible to submit qualifications, firms must hold all required applicable state licenses in good standing, hold all required applicable federal licenses in good standing, and be authorized to do business in the State of Florida. Qualified firms will be selected based on experience, qualifications of personnel, and ability to perform landscape and irrigation maintenance services. All applicants will be promptly notified after the landscape and irrigation maintenance firms are selected. The prequalification decisions of the Board of Supervisors shall be valid for a period of three (3) years, after which the Board of Supervisors may either extend the prequalification period for an additional two (2) years or open the pre-qualification process again. Qualified firms will be eligible to bid or propose on landscape and irrigation maintenance projects subject to the firms' project and aggregate limits. Failure to prequalify may preclude Lakewood Ranch Stewardship District from awarding landscape and irrigation maintenance contracts to any non-prequalified firm. All firms Interested in bidding on landscape and irrigation maintenance contracts to be let by District are strongly encouraged to submit for prequalification. However, the District is not obligated to select prequalified firms, and at its sole discretion reserves the right to solicit bids or proposals from non prequalified contractors for specific projects in the best interests of the District. Any protest regarding the terms of this Notice, or the evaluation criteria on file with the District Manager, PFM Group Consulting LLC, 12051 Corporate Blvd., Orlando, FL 32817, (407) 382-3256, must be filed in writing, within seventy-two (72) hours after the publication of this Notice. The formal protest setting forth with particularity the facts and law upon which the protest is based shall be filed within seven (7) calendar days after the initial notice of protest was filed. 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 or protest with respect to aforesaid Notice or evaluation criteria provisions. Any person who files a notice of protest shall provide to the District, simultaneous with the filing of the notice, a protest bond with a responsible surety to be approved by the District and in the amount of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00). Additional information and requirements regarding protests are set forth in the District's Rules of Procedure, which are available from the District Manager. Applicants may contact the District Engineer, Rob A. Engel at Stantec Consulting Services Inc., 6920 Professional Parkway, Sarasota, Florida 34240 or at (941) 907-6900, until the qualifications submittal deadline for further information.