Water Tank Maintenance Service

The City of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, is requesting qualifications for full-service perpetual maintenance and asset management of water storage tanks and related structures under an RFQu with responses due July 28, 2026 at 2:00 p.m.

The scope encompasses engineering, inspection, maintenance, rehabilitation, washout, preventative maintenance, and painting services for nine elevated and four ground storage tanks ranging from 100,000 to 1,500,000 gallons in capacity. The selected firm must be licensed to practice engineering in North Carolina and maintain professional liability insurance. Responses are limited to 20 single-sided pages and must include firm qualifications, personnel resumes, equipment capabilities, detailed maintenance program description, sample contract documents, and a formal safety program.

The contract term is ten years with automatic annual renewal following an initial one-year period. Pricing will be negotiated following firm selection based on a scope of work developed collaboratively between the selected firm and the City; no pricing is established during the qualification phase. The City encourages participation from Historically Underutilized Businesses and women, minority, and disabled-owned business enterprises, with an aspirational ten percent subcontracting goal.

Evaluation criteria are General Project Approach (25 points), Experience & Qualifications (25 points), Project Scope & Services (20 points), Schedule & Responsiveness (15 points), and General Management (15 points). The City reserves the right to conduct interviews with shortlisted firms. Written questions are due July 9, 2026. All risk of late proposal delivery rests with the vendor.