9378-20240613105812 TUPELO COMMODITIES.pdf

Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, P O Box 909, Tupelo MS 38802

Ad ID: 1668951

Description: #1668951 LEGAL NOTICE ADVERTISEMENT

Run Dates: 06/14/24 to 06/21/24

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Orig User: JSH

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Account: 3486

Name: TIFFANY MAY

Company: CITY OF TUPELO

Address: P.O BOX 1485

TUPELO, MS 38802

Telephone: (662) 841-6487

Notes:

Email address: Traci.Dillard@tupeloms.gov

PO# RFP No. 2024-040PR

Other Charges: $10.00

Discount: $0.00

Surcharge: $0.00

Credits: $0.00

Bill Depth: 17.347

Net Cost: $181.38

Paid Amount: - $0.00

Amount Due: $181.38

#1668951

LEGAL NOTICE

ADVERTISEMENT

FOR PROPOSALS

NOTICE is hereby given that the Mayor and City Council of the City of Tupelo, Mississippi (hereinafter “the CITY) will receive written sealed proposals (RFP) until the hour of 10:00 o’clock A.M. local time on July 16, 2024 at the Tax Collection Office, City Hall 1st Floor, 71 East Troy Street, Tupelo, Mississippi, 38804 for the con-struction of the project including design, final grading, selection of playground equipment and struc-tures, installation of playground equipment and structures, em-placement of playground safety surfaces and maintenance/re-placement aspects of the Project designated as the “PHASE II BAL-

LARD PARK: PLAYGROUND AT

BALLARD PARK”, RFP No. 2024- 040PR, with a copy of this RFP being on file at the office of the City Clerk at City Hall in Tupelo, Mississippi.

Documents, including the full Request for Proposal, Specifica-tions and Exhibits may be obtained in hard copy or electronic format by visiting www.tupelomsbids .com. For questions regarding the website or obtaining documents, you may contact Plan House at 662-407-0193.

A Pre-Proposal Meeting will be held at the Park and Recreation Main Office (Ballard Park), 655 Rutherford Road, Tupelo, MS Time 1:00 p.m., July 2, 2024. In-formation will be supplemented re-garding remote participation. The Pre-Proposal Meeting will include a discussion of the plans, specifica-tions, program requirements, Con-tract Documents, etc. The Pre-Proposal Meeting is not mandatory but all proposers are encouraged to attend.

Any questions should be di-rected in writing/email to the Owner’s project manager below prior to the deadline between the hours of 8:00a.m. and 4:00p.m.

Monday through Thursday.

Owner’s Project Manager:

City of Tupelo Attn: Alex Farned, Director Parks and Recreation 71 East Troy Street, Tupelo, MS 38804, 662-841-6513 alex.farned@tupeloms.gov

Interested firms are required to submit one original and five (5) copies of their response marked “Request for Proposals – Ballard Park Playground and should be re-ceived by 10:00 a.m. on July 16, 2024, in the office of the City Clerk, City Hall 1st Floor Tax Col-lection Office, 71 East Troy Street, Tupelo MS, 38804. All submittals shall have bid title, company name d dd f d d and address information, date and time of proposal specifications and Mississippi Certificate of Responsi-bility Number all clearly indicated on the outside of the sealed enve-lope or container. Submittals with-out this information may be rejected. The City of Tupelo is not responsible for any submission de-livery being delayed for any rea-son.

Firms interested in providing these services must submit, as a minimum, the following informa-tion to meet evaluation factors:

1. Price factors – Price (35%)

2. Technical factors (30%) –

Proposal demonstrates a clear understanding of the scope of work and related objectives; pro-posal is complete and responsive to the specific RFP; past per-formance of the proposer's methodology has been docu-mented showing experience in all-accessible playground con-cept, design, construction, equipment, installation, usage through-put, particularly proj-ects involving governmental agencies; and proposer's sub-mission uses innovative technol-ogy and techniques.

3. Management factors (15%)

– Proposal provides project man-agement plan which demon-strates proposed scheduling timeline meet the needs of the city; project management plan, history and experience in per-forming the work on-time, on-budget and contract-compliant;

proposal demonstrates availabil-ity of personnel, contracted per-sonnel and subcontractors that will be available and dedicated to this project.

4. Cost factors (20%) – Pro-posal can be evaluated based on relative cost compared to other similarly scored proposals; com-parative costs are adequately ex-plained and documented;

proposal demonstrates pro-poser’s ability to obtain and pro-vide required bonds, warranties or guarantees; and proposer demonstrates sufficient financial resources to meet its obligations.

The selection committee will deem the proposals as (a) accept-able; (b) potentially acceptable, which means reasonably suscepti-ble of being made acceptable; or

(c) unacceptable. Proposers whose submissions are unacceptable shall be notified promptly.

Discussions may be held with acceptable proposers to: (a) pro-mote understanding of the city's requirements and the proposer's submission and (b) facilitate arriv-ing at a contract that will be the most practicable and advanta-geous to the city, taking into con-sideration price and the other evaluation factors set forth in the

RFP.

d i d b h l

As determined by the selec-tion committee from accept-able proposers, award will be made by the City Council to the best and final proposal. The City Council reserves the right to reject any and all proposals and to waive any irregularities or informalities not violative of statute or not affecting com-petitive selection.

The OWNER is an Equal Oppor-tunity Employer. The OWNER en-courages Minority-owned Business Enterprises (MBE’s) and Women-owned Business Enterprises (WBE’s) to submit bids. The bid so-licitation will be submitted to the Agency Bid Bank at agencybidbank @mississippi.org.

BY ORDER OF THE MAYOR AND

CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF

TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI.

CITY OF TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI

BY: s/b Traci Dillard TRACI DILLARD, City Controller June 14, 21, 2024.