The City of Tampa seeks Professional Engineering, Landscape Architecture, Neighborhood Planning, Community Redevelopment, Urban Design, and Economic Development services for the creation of a Sulphur Springs Neighborhood Action Plan and related services for the City Planning Department.

The plan will develop a long-term vision and prioritized action plan for Sulphur Springs through a community-driven process that identifies neighborhood priorities and specific public investments, programs, partnerships, and funding strategies to meet those priorities. Selected firms will have expertise in the practice areas of public engagement, neighborhood planning, urban design, landscape architecture, housing, transportation, public finance, resiliency, and transit-oriented development. Firms should have a strong expertise in community redevelopment planning and related requirements described in F.S. 163.330 through 163.463.

Specific services will include but are not limited to:

• Public engagement and community visioning, including outreach and engagement with residents, neighborhood associations, community organizations, businesses, property owners, and other stakeholders. The engagement may include facilitating workshops, charrettes, informational meetings, online engagement, and creating a project webpage.
• Development of clear goals for the future of the neighborhood that address housing, transportation, recreation, the environment, and local business and economic needs. Goal development will occur through community engagement and consultation with stakeholder agencies and city departments.
• Development of strategic actions. The actions will include programmatic strategies and capital investments to achieve identified goals as well as recommendations on funding, timeline for implementation, and lead agency designation.
• Planning-level cost estimation, identification of funding mechanisms and, where appropriate, conceptual designs for projects identified. Projects will be prioritized for immediate, short-, mid-, and long-term implementation.
• Interdepartmental coordination to align the plan with related studies underway within the City of Tampa and other agencies, including the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), Hillsborough Area Regional Transportation (HART), Hillsborough Transportation Planning Organization (TPO), Hillsborough County Public Schools, and Hillsborough County government agencies.
• Production of a Sulphur Springs Neighborhood Action Plan that details the goals and prioritized actions through a detailed narrative and visualizations, including graphics, maps, conceptual designs, and other visualizations.

The contract time for this project is 18 months. The anticipated budget is $250,000.

Additional material may be found at demandstar.com and at: www.tampagov.net/contractadministration/programs/architectural-engineeringconstruction-and-related-rfqs

Questions may be directed to Jim Greiner, P.E., Contract Administration, City of Tampa, (813) 274-8598, or E-Mail jim.greiner@tampagov.net.

A pre-submission conference will be conducted at 3 PM November 27,2023, in the City Council Chambers, third floor Old City Hall, 315 E. Kennedy Blvd. Tampa, FL 33602. Attendance is not required.

In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA") and Section 286.26, Florida Statutes, persons with disabilities needing a reasonable accommodation to participate in this public hearing or meeting should contact the City of Tampa's ADA Coordinator at least 48 hours prior to the proceeding. The ADA Coordinator may be contacted via phone at 813-274-3964, email at TampaADA@tampagov.net, or by submitting an ADA - Accommodations Request form available online at tampagov.net/ADARequest.

An individual or entity ("Firm") responding to this RFQ must provide evidence of any required licenses, certificates, or registrations with its submission or within 10 days thereof in order to be considered. The City shall own all ideas, documents, plans, and materials developed as a result of this solicitation and Firm is informed same shall be subject to reuse in accordance with Section 287.055(10), Florida Statutes. Firm (i) confirms it has read and is familiar with Section 119.071(3), Florida Statutes regarding certain building plans, blueprints, schematic drawings, which depict the internal layout and structural elements of a building, facility, or other structure owned or operated by the City or other agency that are per said section exempt from Section 119.07(1), Florida Statutes and Section 24(a), Art. I of the Florida Constitution (“Exempt Plans”) and (ii) agrees Firm shall remain in compliance with same, including maintaining the exempt status of such Exempt Plans for so long as they are held by Firm or otherwise in its possession. Pursuant to Section 2-282, City of Tampa Code, during the solicitation period, including any protest or appeal, NO CONTACT with City officers or employees is permitted from any proposer, other than as specifically stated in this solicitation. The City may cancel, withdraw, or modify this RFQ at any time and reserves the right to reject any or all responses and to waive irregularities, formalities, and informalities as it determines in the City's best interest. The City of Tampa will not request documentation of or consider a bidder's (proposer's) social, political, or ideological interests when determining if the bidder (proposer) is a responsible vendor and will not give preference to a proposer based on the proposer's social, political, or ideological interests.

Firms should consider applicable concepts in the City's Climate Action And Equity Plan as posted at https://www.tampa.gov/document/climate-actionand-equity-plan-122846

Firms desiring to provide these services to the City must submit a single electronic file in searchable PDF format, Smaller than 10MB, that includes the attached RFQ Transmittal Memorandum completed as appropriate, a Letter of Interest addressed to Brad L, Baird, P.E., Chairman, and referring to this RFQ by number, together with a Statement of Qualifications and any supplemental material allowing evaluation for further consideration (shortlisting) based upon the following criteria/point system: Successful Comparable Project Experience, (25 pts); Community Redevelopment Experience (15 pts); Public Finance/Economic Development Experience (10 pts); Urban Design Experience (10 pts); Workload and Availability (10 pts); Past Performance/Low amount of City Work (5 pts); Standard Form 330 (5 pts.); Planned WMBE/SLBE Solicitation & Utilization, Form MBD 10 & 20 (20 pts).

The PDF file must be E-Mailed to ContractAdministration@tampagov.net BEFORE 2 P.M., December 14, 2023.

As a courtesy, the City will endeavor to provide an email acknowledgment usually sent within a few days after submission receipt (submissions received on the day of the deadline may not be acknowledged before the deadline or at all). It is Firm's responsibility to confirm its submission (PDF file) has been received.