Wheelchair lift for President Barack Obama Library auditorium stage

The City of St. Petersburg is seeking qualified vendors to provide and assemble an electric wheelchair lift for the auditorium stage at the President Barack Obama Main Library located at 3745 9th Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL 33713. This procurement requires the delivery and full assembly of a new wheelchair lift system that includes platform and landing gates and operates fully under user control. Vendors must have a minimum of three years of experience providing wheelchair lifts and must be capable of obtaining the required insurance coverage, with preference given to vendors free from legal and regulatory matters that could prevent contract fulfillment. The vendor is responsible for ensuring proper electrical connections, providing full operational testing, user manuals, and staff training as needed, and must designate a dedicated account manager to serve as the single point of contact for all administrative matters. The cost proposal requires vendors to provide unit costs and total costs for three line items: the wheelchair lift with platform and landing gate, delivery, and assembly, with quotes limited to new equipment only; used or refurbished units are not acceptable. The solicitation was released on March 10, 2026, with a deadline for questions on March 12, 2026, and a response deadline of March 18, 2026, at 3:00 p.m., with responses to be submitted electronically through the OpenGov Procurement portal. The City reserves the right to award the contract to one vendor on a split-order, lump-sum, or individual item basis.

The procurement includes a Subcontractor Utilization Plan requiring proposers to outline their intent and efforts in engaging small business enterprises (SBEs), women business enterprises (WBEs), veteran-owned businesses, and minority business enterprises (MBEs) within the Tampa Bay Region; however, there is no minimum level of diverse business participation required, and proposers will not be considered non-responsive if they submit a plan with zero participation from these categories. Prime contractors are permitted to subcontract up to 80 percent of the contract work, with subcontractors identified on a mandatory Subcontractor Summary worksheet at bid time; subcontractors cannot be changed or substituted after contract award and the pre-construction meeting except under seven specific circumstances including failure to execute a contract, lack of appropriate licensing, bankruptcy or insolvency, or performance failures. If the contract amount equals or exceeds fifty thousand dollars, the contractor must comply with the City's Small Business Enterprise requirements by designating a specified percentage of work to City-certified small business enterprises. The contractor must secure a public construction bond equal to the full contract amount, maintain commercial general liability insurance of at least one million dollars per occurrence and two million dollars aggregate, and provide workers' compensation insurance as required by Florida law, with a minimum one-year warranty on materials and labor following Substantial Completion. No specific funding amounts or budget ranges are provided in the solicitation documents, and no incumbent vendors or current contractors are identified in the available procurement materials.