43-20260803165550 Gulfport

The City of Gulfport, Mississippi is requesting qualifications from professional engineering firms for the Jones Park Sanitary Lift Station Renovation Project under RFQ 43-20260803165550, with sealed statements due August 24, 2026 at 10:00 a.m.

The project scope includes modernizing wastewater infrastructure, enhancing storm surge hardening, ensuring compliance with current codes and standards, and protecting coastal resources while maintaining uninterrupted service to residents, businesses, and visitors in the Gulfport coastal area. Required services encompass preliminary engineering reports, design, environmental and surveying services, construction engineering and inspection, and project/grant management. Firms must demonstrate experience coordinating with multiple local, state, and federal agencies, including the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, and must have proven expertise with GOMESA funding, grant documentation, and reimbursement requirements. Qualifications specific to projects completed in the past five years and relevant permitting agencies are evaluable.

The City will negotiate compensation with the highest-ranked firm and award the contract to the firm deemed most advantageous, considering cost and other factors. No estimated contract value is stated.

The selection committee applies weighted evaluation criteria: Qualifications (30%), Experience with required permitting agencies and similar past projects (40%), Capacity for Performance based on timely delivery and personnel resources (20%), and Proximity to Project Location (10%). Minority and women's business enterprises are encouraged to submit and inquire about subcontracting opportunities; contractors are required to make positive efforts to utilize small, minority-owned, and women-owned business enterprises in accordance with 2 C.F.R. 200.321.

Sealed statements may be submitted in person to the Office of Procurement at 1422 23rd Avenue, Gulfport, MS 39501, or electronically at www.gulfportmsbids.com (three hard copies plus USB for in-person; online via www.gulfport-ms.gov for electronic). Written inquiries are due to jversiga@gulfport-ms.gov by 10:00 a.m. on August 17, 2026. Addenda will be issued only through gulfportmsbids.com to registered proposers.