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Current RFPs/RFQs

REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS

RFEI: CITY OF FORT WORTH

City seeks master developer for Evans & Rosedale urban village

The City of Fort Worth has launched a Request for Expressions of Interest (RFEI) to find a new master developer for the Evans & Rosedale urban village in Fort Worth’s Historic Southside.

This is an opportunity for an experienced mixed-use developer to work on a multi-block, six-acre greenfield site, located five minutes from Downtown Fort Worth – the urban core of one of the fastest-growing large cities in the U.S.

Responses are due by 5 p.m. Monday, April 22.

More information

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COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING SERVICES - CITY OF CONVERSE

Date of publication of this RFP - March 6, 2024
COMMUNITY PROFILE
Converse is a diverse, thriving community of over 29,000 residents in eastern Bexar County, Texas.  The city is in the San Antonio Metropolitan Area, which is a regional economic hub. Converse has a diverse population with 46.1% Hispanic, 28.8% White, 19.7% Black, 17.3% Two or More Races, 2.6% Asian and .6% Native American, and .4% Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander. 9,653 families reside in Converse, with 2.89 persons per household.  The median household income is $77,237 (in 22 dollars).  

SCOPE OF COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING SERVICES  
The City seeks an agreement with qualified individuals, firms or corporations to provide Comprehensive Planning Services   Respondents must provide a detailed scope of work, a project timeline, and a total Budget.  The anticipated budget for the Comprehensive Plan is $300,000, which includes $150,000 in the first year with the anticipation of budget approval for an additional $150,000 in the subsequent 12 months allotted for the project. The consultant shall initiate the overall study and shall include but not be limited to the following:

• 1. The Comprehensive Plan shall require extensive community outreach to generate a Community Vision, Goals, and Objectives for these areas of the City to address the desired balance of land uses, locations, design character and densities as applied to undeveloped and potential re-development areas. The planning process must emphasize a community outreach process that incorporates high-tech, web-based platforms (such as web-hosted interactive map applications that will gather community input), with complimentary low-tech approaches.
  
• 2. The Plan must also address the interconnection of land use, the built environment, the socioeconomic environment, and the natural environment. The consultants shall initiate the overall study, examine existing conditions, identify needs and opportunities, and prepare implementation strategies for the City of Converse.  
  
• 3. The planning analyses must identify emerging trends and the suitability of existing land use regulations, public/private facilities, and services to meet the growing and changing needs of the population in the city. The Plans shall also explore where public and/or private initiatives shall be necessary to maintain and improve services and facilities.
  
• 4. The Plan shall outline development and/or redevelopment strategies that consider preferred future land use patterns and the infrastructure improvements required to support such land use patterns. Build-out scenarios shall be presented to allow the City Council,

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• City Staff, and the public to evaluate the cost-benefit analysis and return on investment (ROI) of varying development scenarios. Economic, social, and environmental impacts shall be addressed as well. The implementation strategies shall identify capital improvement projects, programs, and code amendments that should be pursued to implement the goals of the Plans.
  
• 5. Plan components should include but may not be limited to: community engagement, analysis of background information and current conditions; evaluation of the planning district boundaries; current land uses; future land uses; residential and business opportunities; transportation network; economic development; public facilities, services, and infrastructure; resiliency and sustainability. Provide multiple public involvement opportunities to seek input on the project.
  
• 6. Provide PowerPoint and exhibits for public involvement and presentation to elected/appointed officials.
  
• 7. Provide a timeline for the project.  
  
• 8. Digitize new maps, input data and create new GIS layers, and incorporate selected maps from existing work products to produce a GIS.
  
• 9. Produce all materials for public presentations.
  
• 10. Provide digital, web ready drafts of the Plan for posting on the City’s website. Produce final copies for approval by the City.
  
• 11. Provide the City with a reproducible hard and digital copy of the Comprehensive Plan. Digital documents and maps shall be easily editable and provided in the following file formats: Plan text and maps must be provided in Adobe PDF. Plan text must also be provided in Microsoft Word format. All final maps and layers must be delivered in a geodatabase and project file compatible with the City’s GIS application.  All final maps and source data files must be provided to the City.
  

QUALIFICATIONS
Respondents must

• 1. Be a firm, corporation, individual or partnership normally engaged in provision of professional services described herein;
  
• 2. Demonstrate that they have a project member that is licensed to practice architecture in the State of Texas or is certified with the American Institute of Certified Planners;  
  
• 3. Have at least 5 years of experience in the requested tasks.  
  
• 4. Be specific in describing Respondent’s expertise as it relates to this RFP.

Deadline for submission of Responses to this RFP: 10:00 AM,  April 15, 2024
https://www.conversetx.net/277/Requests-for-Bids
Responses received after the Deadline will be rejected.
3 / 3Information relating to this RFP may be found on the City’s website, www.conversetx.net under the Request for Bids tab, or by contacting the Nina Nixon-Mendez, Assistant City Manager via Electronic Mail at nnmendez@conversetx.net
Voice: (210) 658-5356 ext. 108
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Space Needs Assessment and Facilities Master Plan - City of Tyler

The City of Tyler will accept qualification statements for the following projects, services, and/or supplies in the Engineering Department, 511 W. Locust St., Tyler, Texas 75702, ATTN: Darin Jennings, P.E., until 2:00 p.m. on April 23, 2024, for the items shown below.

Request for Qualifications (RFQ):

The City of Tyler is accepting Statements of Qualifications (SOQ) from qualified consultants interested in providing a space needs assessment and facilities master plan to address the city’s existing as well as future facility needs.

It is the intent of the City of Tyler to select a single consultant to accomplish all the services outlined in this Request for Qualifications. Service includes the development of a needs assessment study and site evaluations. Provide a facility deficiency evaluation report. Develop a minimum of three but no more than five development options illustrating the use of existing facilities and land, development of a centralized campus development, and hybrid plans using existing or acquired properties and land. General costs for each of the recommended options will be prepared with each development option to include real estate acquisitions and liquidations, if applicable.

Once a final option (The Plan) is selected, it is the intention of the City to use the same firm to provide design services for recommended projects identified in The Plan and a refined estimate of associated costs for implementation. The Plan needs to address the entire operation, including storage capacity, administrative use, conference rooms, and other areas as necessary. Development of the Building Master Plan should consider a new facility, renovation of and/or addition to the existing building(s) and/or a combination of these.

The Request For Qualifications can be obtained from the City Engineer’s Office *(unless otherwise indicated) during regular business hours Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Telephone No. (903) 531-1126. Request for Qualifications documents are available at the City of Tyler Engineering office and online at https://www.cityoftyler.org/government/departments/purchasing If Addendums are posted online, they will be posted on the website(s).

A non-mandatory pre-proposal meeting will be held in the Tyler Development Center - Large Conference Room, 423 W. Ferguson in Tyler, Texas, at 10:00 a.m. on March 28, 2024. A tour and staff interviews will follow beginning at 1:30 p.m. The City reserves the right to accept, reject, cancel or modify any proposal, waive all formalities, and to award the contract(s) most advantageous to the City.

In accordance with House Bill 1295, for certain contracts entered into on or after January 1, 2016, the successful firms must submit a Certificate of Interested Parties (Form 1295) at the time the signed contract is submitted to the CITY. The law applies (with a few exceptions) only to a City contract between a business entity and a governmental entity or state agency that either (1) requires an action or vote by the City Council before the contract may be signed or (2) has a value of at least $1 million.

Tyler Morning Telegraph

1st Publication: March 6, 2024

2nd Publication: March 13, 2024

City of Tyler, Texas

Edward Broussard

City Manager

 

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