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SOQ-2023 – 02

GEN­ER­AL CON­SUL­TANT SERVICES

Pana­ma City – Bay Coun­ty Air­port and Indus­tri­al Dis­trict (Dis­trict) issues this Request for State­ment of Qual­i­fi­ca­tions (SOQ) to pro­vide gen­er­al con­sult­ing ser­vices for project administration/​management ser­vices on cap­i­tal improve­ment projects for a peri­od of five (5) years.

All future spec­i­fi­ca­tions, require­ments, updates and/​or changes will ONLY be acces­si­ble by fol­low­ing the below steps:

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Flori­da, Bay Coun­ty, Pana­ma City – Bay Coun­ty Air­port and Indus­tri­al Dis­trict, SOQ-2023 – 02

REQUEST FOR STATE­MENT OF QUALIFICATIONS 

SOQ-2023 – 02

FOR 

GEN­ER­AL CON­SUL­TANT SER­VICES FOR

NORTH­WEST FLORI­DA BEACH­ES INTER­NA­TION­AL AIRPORT 

PANA­MA CITY – BAY COUN­TY AIR­PORT AND INDUS­TRI­AL DISTRICT 

6300 WEST BAY PARK­WAY, BOX A

PANA­MA CITY, FLORI­DA 32409 

PHONE: (850) 636‑8950

www​.ifly​beach​es​.com

SOQ-2023 – 02 Gen­er­al Con­sul­tant Services

Table of Contents

I. OVERVIEW AND INSTRUC­TIONS FOR RESPON­DENT .….….… 4

BACK­GROUND .….….….….… 4

GEN­ER­AL INFOR­MA­TION.….….….…. 4

EXAM­I­NA­TION OF SOQ DOC­U­MENT .….….….….….….….….….. 5

QUES­TIONS .….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….. 5

CONE OF SILENCE .….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….5

TIME­LINE OF EVENTS .….….….….….….….….….….….….… 6

ADDEN­DUM .….….….….….….…… 6

TAX­ES .….….….….….….….….….….….….….….…. 6

LICENS­ES.….….….….….….….….….….… 6

MIS­CEL­LA­NEOUS PRO­VI­SIONS .….….….….….….….. 6

CON­TRACT AWARD .….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….… 7

RIGHT TO ACCEPT OR REJECT .….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….…… 7

TERM OF CON­TRACT.….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….…… 7

GRIEV­ANCE .….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….…… 8

PUB­LIC RECORDS LAWS .….….….….….….….….….….…… 8

INSUR­ANCE REQUIRE­MENTS.….….….….….…… 8

INDE­PEN­DENT CON­TRAC­TOR STA­TUS .….….….….….….….….….….….….… 8

LAWS .….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….… 8

TITLE VI SOLIC­I­TA­TION NOTICE .….….….….….….….….….….….….….… 9

II. SCOPE OF SER­VICES .….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….……10

OVERVIEW .….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….……10

SCOPE OF SERVICES.….….….….….….….….….….….….….….…..11

III. SOQ RESPONSE REQUIRE­MENTS .….….….….….….….….….….….….….15

Title Page .….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….… 15

Cov­er Let­ter .….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….…… 15

Table of Con­tents.….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….. 15

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Detailed State­ment of Qual­i­fi­ca­tions .….….….….….….….….….….….….…. 15

DBE Sta­tus.….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….…..17

Cur­rent Work­load .….….….….….….….….….….….….… 17

Insur­ance Cov­er­age / Bond­ing Capac­i­ty .….….….….….….….….….. 17

Legal Actions .….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….…. 17

Request­ed Changes to sign sam­ple Pro­fes­sion­al Ser­vices Con­tract .….….….….….…. 17

Required Forms.….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….… 17

IV. SELEC­TION CRI­TE­RIA AND SCOR­ING .….….….….….….….….….….….…..19

Gen­er­al.….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….. 19

Scor­ing.….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….…… 20

Rank­ing for Short List .….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….… 20

I. OVERVIEW AND INSTRUC­TIONS FOR RESPONDENT 

A. BACK­GROUND

North­west Flori­da Beach­es Inter­na­tion­al Air­port (“ECP or Air­port”) is owned and oper­at­ed by the Pana­ma City-Bay Coun­ty Air­port and Indus­tri­al Dis­trict (“Dis­trict”). The Dis­trict is gov­erned by a Board of Direc­tors (“Board”) con­sist­ing of sev­en mem­bers appoint­ed by local gov­ern­men­tal enti­ties from the City of Pana­ma City Beach Com­mis­sion (2), City of Pana­ma City Com­mis­sion (2), Bay Coun­ty Com­mis­sion (2), and the Wal­ton Coun­ty Com­mis­sion (1); each serv­ing a four (4) year term. The Dis­trict is an inde­pen­dent spe­cial dis­trict pur­suant to Chap­ter 189, Flori­da Statutes (F.S.) and is oper­at­ed in accor­dance with the Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion (FAA) require­ments and guide­lines. Chap­ter 2040-274 and 2005-311 F.S. con­tain full text of the enabling leg­is­la­tion for the Dis­trict, an inde­pen­dent spe­cial dis­trict with no tax­ing authority. 

The Dis­trict owns approx­i­mate­ly 4,000 acres of real prop­er­ty locat­ed in Bay Coun­ty, Flori­da that is home to approx­i­mate­ly 125 gen­er­al avi­a­tion air­craft and heli­copters, com­mer­cial air­lines and char­ter ser­vices, one fixed base oper­a­tor (with a sec­ond expect­ed in late 2023), 24 T‑hangars, mul­ti­ple cor­po­rate and gen­er­al avi­a­tion hangars, air­craft maintenance/​repair facil­i­ties, and flight schools. With the his­toric growth of the Air­port, the Dis­trict antic­i­pates the need for con­sis­tent cap­i­tal improve­ment projects to increase the capac­i­ty and effi­cien­cy of the Airport. 

B. GEN­ER­AL INFORMATION 

The Dis­trict is request­ing State­ments of Qual­i­fi­ca­tions (SOQ) from qual­i­fied ven­dors to per­form gen­er­al con­sul­tant ser­vices to over­see the Dis­tricts cap­i­tal improve­ment projects and plan­ning efforts. These ser­vices shall be per­formed in accor­dance with accept­able man­age­ment and con­cep­tu­al design prac­tices, and are to be car­ried out in accor­dance with FAA require­ments, Flori­da Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion (FDOT) guide­lines, Flori­da Statutes and Codes, and all applic­a­ble local codes, reg­u­la­tions, ordi­nances, poli­cies and plan­ning procedures. 

The Dis­trict, in accor­dance with the pro­vi­sions of Title VI of the Civ­il Rights Act of 1964 (78 Stat. 252, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000^d to 2000^d‑4) and the Reg­u­la­tions, here­by noti­fies all Respon­dents that it will affir­ma­tive­ly ensure that for any result­ing con­tract entered into pur­suant to this SOQ, dis­ad­van­taged busi­ness enter­pris­es will be afford­ed full and fair oppor­tu­ni­ty to sub­mit a response to this solic­i­ta­tion and will not be dis­crim­i­nat­ed against on the grounds of race, col­or, or nation­al ori­gin in con­sid­er­a­tion for an award. 

The require­ments of 49 CFR part 26 apply and will be incor­po­rat­ed to any result­ing con­tract. It is the pol­i­cy of the Dis­trict to prac­tice nondis­crim­i­na­tion based on race, col­or, sex or nation­al ori­gin in the award or per­for­mance of the result­ing con­tract. The Dis­trict encour­ages par­tic­i­pa­tion by all firms qual­i­fy­ing under this solic­i­ta­tion regard­less of busi­ness size or ownership. 

C. PRO­CURE­MENT OFFICER 

The Pro­cure­ment offi­cer is the sole point of con­tact for this SOQ. All inquiries shall be addressed to the following: 

Ger­ri Lynn Faircloth
Con­tracts and Pro­cure­ment Manager
North­west Flori­da Beach­es Inter­na­tion­al Air­port and Indus­tri­al Dis­trict 6300 West Bay Park­way, Box A
Pana­ma City, Flori­da 32409
Email: rfp@​pcairport.​com Phone: 850−636−8964

D. SOQ SUBMISSION

Ven­dors inter­est­ed in this SOQ shall sub­mit a response no lat­er than the date and time spec­i­fied in Sec­tion H, Time­line of Events, below. The sub­mis­sion shall be enclosed and secured in an envelope/​package and prop­er­ly marked with the name and address of Respon­dent, solic­i­ta­tion name, solic­i­ta­tion num­ber, and date and time of open­ing. No oth­er infor­ma­tion shall be includ­ed or writ­ten on the out­side of the envelope/​package. The Dis­trict shall not be respon­si­ble for uniden­ti­fied respons­es. Respons­es should be either hand-deliv­ered, sent via overnight deliv­ery, or mailed and addressed to: Pro­cure­ment Offi­cer, North­west Flori­da Beach­es Inter­na­tion­al Air­port, 6300 West Bay Park­way, Box A, Pana­ma City, FL 32409. 

If hand deliv­er­ing a sub­mis­sion, deliv­er to the Air­port Admin­is­tra­tive Office at the address stat­ed above. No fac­sim­i­les, e‑mails or tele­phone sub­mit­tals will be accept­ed. Any sub­mis­sion received lat­er than the dead­line will be con­sid­ered LATE and will not be accept­ed by the Dis­trict. Receipt of a SOQ by any Dis­trict offi­cer or per­son­nel oth­er than the Air­port Admin­is­tra­tive Office’s front desk does not con­sti­tute ​“receipt” as required by this solic­i­ta­tion. The time received at the Air­port Admin­is­tra­tive Office shall be con­clu­sive as to the time­li­ness of receipt. 

E. EXAM­I­NA­TION OF SOQ DOCUMENT 

Pri­or to sub­mit­ting a response, each Respon­dent shall care­ful­ly exam­ine the SOQ doc­u­ments and thor­ough­ly famil­iar­ize them­selves with the sub­mit­tal and project require­ments there­of, and if any con­flicts, errors, or dis­crep­an­cies are found, the Respon­dent shall noti­fy the District. 

Ven­dors shall cer­ti­fy their SOQ by com­plet­ing the required Sub­mit­tal Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion Form. All sub­mis­sions shall be entered in leg­i­ble hand­writ­ing in ink or typed. Response may be reject­ed if any omis­sions, alter­ation of forms, addi­tions not called for, or any irreg­u­lar­i­ties of any kind are shown. The sub­mis­sion shall remain firm for not less than one hun­dred-eighty (180) cal­en­dar days from the due date. 

The Respondent’s name and solic­i­ta­tion num­ber shall be includ­ed when spec­i­fi­ca­tions or descrip­tive papers are sub­mit­ted with a response. By sub­mis­sion of a SOQ, the Respon­dent guar­an­tees that all ser­vices offered in the response meet the require­ments of the solicitation. 

F. QUES­TIONS

All ques­tions shall be in writ­ing and the ques­tions shall be sub­mit­ted to the Pro­cure­ment Man­ag­er, via email, by the due date pre­scribed in the Time­line of Events. Respon­dents shall ensure the sub­ject line con­tains ​“SOQ-2023 – 02, Gen­er­al Con­sul­tant Ser­vices” in the sub­ject line of the email. Answers to sub­mit­ted ques­tions will be post­ed on Demand­Star, www​.demand​star​.com, on the date and time spec­i­fied in the Time­line of Events. 

G. CONE OF SILENCE 

Aside from Ques­tions in Sec­tion F (above), Firms and any sub­con­sul­tants may not con­tact any Dis­trict employ­ee or rep­re­sen­ta­tive, includ­ing any Dis­trict Board mem­ber, regard­ing this SOQ, the qual­i­fi­ca­tions of any firm, the selec­tion of any firm, or any oth­er mat­ters relat­ed to this SOQ. Con­tact with any oth­er Dis­trict offi­cial or Dis­trict employ­ee for the pur­pose of inquiries regard­ing this SOQ or the mean­ing or inter­pre­ta­tion of these spec­i­fi­ca­tions shall be grounds for disqualification. 

H. TIME­LINE OF EVENTS

The table below con­tains the Time­line of Events for this solic­i­ta­tion. Respon­dents shall become famil­iar with the dates, times and event of the solic­i­ta­tion. The Time­line of Events is sub­ject to change. It is the Respondent’s respon­si­bil­i­ty to check for any changes. All changes to the Time­line of Events will be made through an adden­dum to the solic­i­ta­tion. Respon­dents are respon­si­ble for sub­mit­ting all required doc­u­men­ta­tion by the date and time spec­i­fied below. All times are Cen­tral Stan­dard Time (CST).

I. ADDEN­DUM

If it becomes nec­es­sary to revise any part of this SOQ, an adden­dum will be pro­vid­ed in writ­ing and post­ed on the Demand­Star web­site. All adden­da issued by the Dis­trict must be acknowl­edged in writ­ing by the Respon­dent. Ver­bal infor­ma­tion obtained oth­er­wise will not be con­sid­ered in the award­ing of the SOQ. It shall be the Respondent’s respon­si­bil­i­ty to ensure all adden­da has been reviewed by vis­it­ing the Demand­Star at www​.demand​star​.com.

J. TAX­ES

The Air­port is a Spe­cial Dis­trict of the State of Flori­da and is not sub­ject to sales tax. 

K. LICENS­ES

All Respon­dents must be prop­er­ly licensed to do busi­ness in the State of Flori­da and must com­ply with the Flori­da State Statutes. Respon­dents do not need to be based in Flori­da; how­ev­er, Respon­dents are required to sub­mit evi­dence of all pro­fes­sion­al licens­es required to com­plete the work as part of the SOQ sub­mit­tal. Fail­ure to com­ply may be auto­mat­ic grounds for reject­ing the Response and it being deemed as non-responsive. 

L. MIS­CEL­LA­NEOUS PROVISIONS 

The Dis­trict reserves the right to reject any or all sub­mis­sions and fur­ther reserves the right to waive tech­ni­cal­i­ties and for­mal­i­ties in a response as well as to accept in whole or in part such response where it deems it advis­able in pro­tec­tion of the best inter­est of the Dis­trict. The Dis­trict shall be the sole judge as to whether a response sub­mit­ted meet all require­ments con­tained in this procurement.

This pro­cure­ment does not com­mit the Dis­trict to award a con­tract, to pay any costs incurred in the prepa­ra­tion of the sub­mit­ted SOQ, or to pro­cure or con­tract for goods or ser­vices list­ed here­in. Costs asso­ci­at­ed with a response prepa­ra­tion, oral inter­views or pre­sen­ta­tions shall be the sole respon­si­bil­i­ty of the Respondent. 

The Dis­trict here­by noti­fies all those respond­ing to this SOQ that, in accor­dance with the pro­vi­sions of the Civ­il Rights Act of 1964 (Chap­ter 21, Title 42, of the U.S. Code) and Reg­u­la­tions pro­mul­gat­ed in con­nec­tion there­with, it will affir­ma­tive­ly ensure that for any con­tract entered into pur­suant to this SOQ, dis­ad­van­taged busi­ness enter­pris­es will be afford­ed full and fair oppor­tu­ni­ty to make sub­mit­tals in response to this invi­ta­tion and will not be dis­crim­i­nat­ed against on the grounds of race, col­or, or nation­al ori­gin in con­sid­er­a­tion for an award. 

M. CON­TRACT AWARD 

The Dis­trict envi­sions enter­ing into non-exclu­sive Con­tin­u­ing Mas­ter Pro­fes­sion­al Ser­vices Con­tract for Pro­fes­sion­al Project Administration/​Management and Gen­er­al Con­sul­tant Ser­vices with one (1) suc­cess­ful ven­dor to per­form spe­cif­ic task orders for each pro­posed project or task being nego­ti­at­ed and approved by the Dis­trict on an as- need­ed basis. Indi­vid­ual task orders are antic­i­pat­ed to be issued on a rota­tion­al basis between the suc­cess­ful ven­dor, with con­sid­er­a­tion being giv­en for bal­anc­ing total Dis­trict project work­load annually. 

The Dis­trict will nego­ti­ate con­tract award with the Firm whose response is deemed most advan­ta­geous to the Dis­trict, con­sid­er­ing all eval­u­a­tion fac­tors list­ed here­in. The Dis­trict shall be the sole judge of this deter­mi­na­tion. Fol­low­ing the approval of the nego­ti­at­ed con­tract by the Board of Direc­tors, a Notice of Award will be emailed to all Respon­dents who sub­mit­ted a response to this SOQ. 

If award­ed, the select­ed Firm will be required to sign a Mas­ter Pro­fes­sion­al Ser­vices Con­tract (ref­er­ence Attach­ment I). Mas­ter Pro­fes­sion­al Ser­vice Con­tract shall be sub­ject to ter­mi­na­tion by the Dis­trict at any time at will and with­out cause, except that the ter­mi­nat­ed ven­dor shall either be per­mit­ted to fin­ish any task order in progress at the time of ter­mi­na­tion or be equi­tably com­pen­sat­ed for work per­formed for work per­formed pri­or to ter­mi­na­tion. All work prod­ucts includ­ing detailed reports, plans, orig­i­nal trac­ings, spec­i­fi­ca­tions, and oth­er data in what­ev­er form (text, graph­ic, dig­i­tal or oth­er elec­tron­ic) pre­pared or obtained by the Respon­dent, in con­nec­tion with its ser­vices, shall belong to the Dis­trict and shall be deliv­ered to the Dis­trict prompt­ly with­out cost or lien upon request or ter­mi­na­tion of any con­tract. A copy of the fir­m’s sub­mis­sion will be incor­po­rat­ed by ref­er­ence to the con­tract; how­ev­er, in the event of any ambi­gu­i­ty, the District’s con­tract will pre­vail. Any request­ed changes to the sam­ple con­tract shall be sub­mit­ted in the SOQ response and clear­ly marked ​“Pro­posed Con­tract Changes”. The Dis­trict reserves the right to accept or reject any of these pro­posed changes. 

N. RIGHT TO ACCEPT OR REJECT 

The Dis­trict reserves the right to accept or reject any or all sub­mis­sions received as a result of this SOQ, and to waive any infor­mal­i­ties, defects, or irreg­u­lar­i­ties in any sub­mis­sion, or to accept that sub­mis­sion which, in the judg­ment of the prop­er offi­cials, is in the best inter­est of the District. 

O. TERM OF CONTRACT 

The Dis­trict envi­sions enter­ing into non-exclu­sive Con­tin­u­ing Con­tract for Mas­ter Pro­fes­sion­al Ser­vices Con­tract for a five (5) year ini­tial term with one poten­tial five (5) year renew­al term with the suc­cess­ful Respon­dent, with spe­cif­ic task orders for projects that are approved by the Dis­trict. Task orders for sub­se­quent or relat­ed items may fol­low at lat­er dates, but no work is guar­an­teed. The Dis­trict is under no oblig­a­tion, either express or implied, to con­tract for project man­age­ment of any of the Dis­trict cap­i­tal improve­ment projects. The con­tract will be sub­ject to the annu­al review and approval of the Air­port Board, the sat­is­fac­to­ry nego­ti­a­tion of terms (includ­ing rates accept­able to both the Dis­trict and the select­ed Respon­dent), and the avail­abil­i­ty of fund­ing. The con­tract is non-exclu­sive. The Board of Direc­tors reserves the right, at its sole dis­cre­tion, to con­tract with mul­ti­ple respon­sive ven­dors and to con­tract with oth­er firms for engi­neer­ing and oth­er pro­fes­sion­al services.

P. GRIEV­ANCE

Any per­son who is adverse­ly affect­ed by the District’s deci­sion or intend­ed deci­sion shall file with the District’s Exec­u­tive Direc­tor a notice of protest in writ­ing with­in 72 hours after the post­ing of the notice of deci­sion or intend­ed deci­sion. With respect to a protest of the terms, con­di­tions, and spec­i­fi­ca­tions con­tained in this SOQ, includ­ing any pro­vi­sions gov­ern­ing the meth­ods for rank­ing response or replies, award­ing con­tracts, reserv­ing rights of fur­ther nego­ti­a­tion, or mod­i­fy­ing or amend­ing any con­tract. The notice of protest shall be filed in writ­ing with­in 72 hours after the post­ing of the request for SOQ. The for­mal writ­ten protest shall be filed with­in 10 days after the date the notice of intent to protest is filed. Fail­ure to file a notice of protest or fail­ure to file a for­mal writ­ten protest shall con­sti­tute a waiv­er of pro­ceed­ings. The for­mal writ­ten protest shall state with par­tic­u­lar­i­ty the facts and law upon which the protest is based. Sat­ur­days, Sun­days, and state hol­i­days shall be exclud­ed in the com­pu­ta­tion of the 72-hour time peri­ods pro­vid­ed by this paragraph. 

Q. PUB­LIC RECORDS LAWS 

Flori­da Statutes require that all mate­r­i­al sub­mit­ted in con­nec­tion with a response shall be deemed to be pub­lic record sub­ject to pub­lic inspec­tion upon award, rec­om­men­da­tion for award, or thir­ty (30) days after SOQ open­ing, whichev­er occurs first. All mate­r­i­al sub­mit­ted with the response will become the prop­er­ty of the Dis­trict unless oth­er­wise request­ed or not­ed at the time of sub­mis­sion. Accord­ing­ly, the result­ing con­tract will include all claus­es required by Flori­da Statute 119.0701 and Respon­dent agrees to com­ply with Chap­ter 119, as applic­a­ble, at its own cost. 

R. INSUR­ANCE REQUIREMENTS 

The suc­cess­ful Respon­dent shall main­tain, at its own expense, con­tin­u­ous insur­ance as set forth below: 

1. Worker’s com­pen­sa­tion: Statutory

2. Com­pre­hen­sive Gen­er­al Liability 

Bod­i­ly Injury and Prop­er­ty Dam­age Combined 

$2,000,000 / $2,000,000

3. Auto­mo­bile Liability

Bod­i­ly Injury and Prop­er­ty Dam­age Combined 

$1,000,000 / $1,000,000

4. Pro­fes­sion­al Lia­bil­i­ty Insurance

Includ­ing Errors and Omissions 

$1,000,000 / $1,000,000

Insur­ance shall indem­ni­fy the Dis­trict against any and all claims aris­ing under or as a result of the per­for­mance of the Con­tract. The Pana­ma City-Bay Coun­ty Air­port and Indus­tri­al Dis­trict shall be named as an addi­tion­al insured on all lia­bil­i­ty poli­cies. The Dis­trict must also be pro­vid­ed with thir­ty (30) days’ notice pri­or to can­cel­la­tion, mod­i­fi­ca­tion or reduc­tion in lim­its of any stip­u­lat­ed insurance. 

S. INDE­PEN­DENT CON­TRAC­TOR STATUS 

The award­ed Respon­dent shall not, by enter­ing into a Con­tract, become a ser­vant, agent, or employ­ee of the Dis­trict, but shall remain at all times an inde­pen­dent con­trac­tor to the Dis­trict. The Con­tract shall not be deemed to cre­ate any joint ven­ture, part­ner­ship, or com­mon enter­prise between the vend­ing con­trac­tor and the Dis­trict, and the rights and oblig­a­tions of the par­ties shall not be oth­er than as express­ly set forth. 

T. LAWS

Com­pli­ance with EEOC and oth­er State and Fed­er­al Laws: To the extent set forth in the respec­tive statutes, 

Respon­dent shall com­ply with the pro­vi­sions of:

1. Title VII of the Civ­il Rights Act of 1964; 

2. Age Dis­crim­i­na­tion in Employ­ment Act of 1967; 

3. Title I of the Amer­i­cans with Dis­abil­i­ties Act of 1990; 

4. Equal Pay Act of 1963; 

5. Fair Labor Stan­dards Act of 1938; and 

6. Immi­gra­tion Reform and Con­trol Act of 1986. 

Exhib­it A to the Sam­ple Con­tract (Attach­ment I) con­tains addi­tion­al required pro­vi­sions for the contract:

• Access to Records and Reports 

• Buy Amer­i­can Preference 

• Civ­il Rights – General 

• Civ­il Rights – Title VI Assurances 

• Civ­il Rights – List – Per­ti­nent Authorities

• Dis­ad­van­taged Busi­ness Enterprises 

• Ener­gy Con­ser­va­tion Requirements 

• Occu­pa­tion­al Safe­ty and Health Act of 1970

• Veteran’s Pref­er­ence

• Seis­mic Safety 

• Copeland Anti‐​Kickback Act 

• Fed­er­al Fair Labor Stan­dards Act (Fed­er­al Min­i­mum Wage)

• Equal Employ­ment Oppor­tu­ni­ty Clause

• Equal Employ­ment Oppor­tu­ni­ty Specifications 

• Pro­hi­bi­tion of Seg­re­gat­ed Facilities

• Pro­cure­ment of Recov­ered Materials
  

• Ter­mi­na­tion of Con­tract (for Con­ve­nience Breach of Con­tract Terms)

• Clean Air and Water Pol­lu­tion Control 

• Affir­ma­tive Action Requirement
  

• Dis­tract­ed Dri­ving – Tex­ting When Driving
  

• Davis‐​Bacon Requirements
  

• Rights to Invention
  

• Con­tract Work­hours and Safe­ty Stan­dards Act Requirements

U. TITLE VI SOLIC­I­TA­TION NOTICE

The Dis­trict, in accor­dance with the pro­vi­sions of Title VI of the Civ­il Rights Act of 1964 (78 Stat. 252, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000^d to 2000^d‐​4) and the Reg­u­la­tions, here­by noti­fies all Respon­dents that it will affir­ma­tive­ly ensure that for any con­tract entered into pur­suant to this adver­tise­ment, dis­ad­van­taged busi­ness enter­pris­es will be afford­ed full and fair oppor­tu­ni­ty to sub­mit bids in response to this invi­ta­tion and will not be dis­crim­i­nat­ed against on the grounds of race, col­or, or nation­al ori­gin in con­sid­er­a­tion for an award. 

The require­ments of 49 CFR part 26 apply to the result­ing con­tract. It is the pol­i­cy of the Dis­trict to prac­tice nondis­crim­i­na­tion based on race, col­or, sex or nation­al ori­gin in the award or per­for­mance of this con­tract. The Air­port encour­ages par­tic­i­pa­tion by all firms qual­i­fy­ing under this solic­i­ta­tion regard­less of busi­ness size or ownership. 

*** End of Overview and Instruc­tions for Respondents ***

II. SCOPE OF SERVICES 

A. OVERVIEW

North­west Flori­da Beach­es Inter­na­tion­al Air­port (“ECP or Air­port”) is owned and oper­at­ed by the Pana­ma City-Bay Coun­ty Air­port and Indus­tri­al Dis­trict (“Dis­trict”). The Air­port is cur­rent­ly served by Amer­i­can Air­lines, Delta Air Lines, South­west Air­lines and Unit­ed Air­lines, and is grow­ing every year. For addi­tion­al infor­ma­tion about the Air­port, ECP, please vis­it www​.ifly​beach​es​.com.

The Dis­trict cur­rent­ly has a con­tract with a Gen­er­al Con­sul­tant for cur­rent projects for sim­i­lar ser­vices described here­in. How­ev­er, as the Air­port grows the Dis­trict has a need to have mul­ti­ple con­sul­tants that will per­form work on a rota­tion­al basis on a project by project basis. The work will be issued at the dis­cre­tion of the Dis­trict based on work­loads and scheduling. 

The Dis­trict is request­ing State­ments of Qual­i­fi­ca­tions (SOQ) from qual­i­fied ven­dors to per­form gen­er­al con­sult­ing ser­vices as here­inafter described on Dis­trict lands, and these gen­er­al con­sult­ing ser­vices may include project inspec­tion, con­struc­tion man­age­ment and plan­ning ser­vices asso­ci­at­ed with the con­cep­tu­al design, fea­si­bil­i­ty stud­ies, and over­all oper­a­tion of the air­port and relat­ed facil­i­ties. The award­ed Respon­dent will be issued Task Orders on a rota­tion­al basis. These ser­vices shall be per­formed in accor­dance with accept­able con­sul­tant prac­tices, and are to be car­ried out in accor­dance with Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion (FAA) require­ments, Flori­da Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion (FDOT) guide­lines, Flori­da Statutes (FS) and Codes, and all applic­a­ble local codes, reg­u­la­tions, ordi­nances, poli­cies and plan­ning procedures. 

The ser­vices pro­vid­ed under this award shall be lim­it­ed to those cap­i­tal projects antic­i­pat­ed to be ini­ti­at­ed with­in the next five (5) years as more ful­ly described in Appen­dix A (the ​“Projects”). The Projects and the ser­vices pro­vid­ed may be accom­plished across mul­ti­ple grants. All work on Projects fol­low­ing the award shall be through the nego­ti­a­tion and issuance of spe­cif­ic task orders. The Dis­trict may add addi­tion­al ser­vices to the result­ing agree­ment for projects or ser­vices which meet the fol­low­ing criteria: 

1. Task Orders for ser­vices on unlist­ed Projects may be accom­plished if the project is not FAA fund­ed and any of the fol­low­ing are met: 

   1. The esti­mat­ed con­struc­tion cost of each indi­vid­ual project under the con­tract does not exceed $4 mil­lion; or 

   2. The fee for pro­fes­sion­al ser­vices for each indi­vid­ual study under the con­tract does not exceed $500,000.

2. Task Orders for addi­tion­al ser­vices may be issued for FAA projects if all of the fol­low­ing are met:

   1. The addi­tion­al ser­vices are sim­i­lar in char­ac­ter to the scope of ser­vices of this SOQ.

   2. The addi­tion­al ser­vices do not require ser­vices not list­ed in the scope of this SOQ.

   3. The addi­tion­al ser­vices are not expect­ed to exceed $100,000.

   4. The Dis­trict can pro­vide accept­able jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for not ini­ti­at­ing a new pro­cure­ment action.

This SOQ is specif­i­cal­ly gov­erned by FAA Advi­so­ry Cir­cu­lar ¹⁵⁰⁄₅₁₀₀ – 14E (the ​“Advi­so­ry Cir­cu­lar”) which is incor­po­rat­ed here­in by ref­er­ence. Pro­posers are encour­ag­ing to famil­iar­ize them­selves with Sec­tion 1.4 and 1.5 of the Advi­so­ry Circular.

B. SCOPE OF SERVICES 

The pri­ma­ry func­tion of the Gen­er­al Con­sul­tant will be to act as an exten­sion of the District’s staff and assist the Dis­trict with its over­all plan­ning, sched­ul­ing and imple­men­ta­tion of all phas­es of the Projects and addi­tion­al ser­vices allowed by this award. These ser­vices shall include: 

• Avi­a­tion Plan­ning Ser­vices as that term is defined by sec­tion 1.4.1 in FAA Advi­so­ry Cir­cu­lar 150−5100−14 includ­ing but not lim­it­ed to:
• Eval­u­a­tion and analy­sis cur­rent Air­port oper­a­tions relat­ed to cur­rent and antic­i­pat­ed future Air­port activ­i­ty with­in exist­ing and recent­ly con­struct­ed facil­i­ties as well as poten­tial devel­op­ment areas.;
  
• Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion devel­op­ment options with­in the cur­rent Air­port Mas­ter Plan and Air­port Lay­out Plan;
  
• Prepa­ra­tion of exist­ing Air­port Lay­out Plan and Air­port Mas­ter Plan update based upon future facil­i­ty needs;
  
• Devel­op updat­ed Mas­ter Plan­ning con­cep­tu­al schemat­ic site plan­ning, pro­gram devel­op­ment and infra­struc­ture assess­ments con­sis­tent with the updat­ed Air­port Lay­out Plan and Air­port Mas­ter Plan;
  
• Air­port Stud­ies, Plan­ning and Design;
  
• Engi­neer­ing analy­sis of facil­i­ty defi­cien­cies; and the prepa­ra­tion of an engi­neer­ing scope of ser­vices and staff hours esti­mat­ed to cor­rect those deficiencies;

• Architectural/​Engineering Con­sul­tant Ser­vices for Air­port Devel­op­ment Projects as that term is defined in sec­tion 1.4.2.1 and 1.4.2.2 in FAA Advi­so­ry Cir­cu­lar 150−5100−14 includ­ing but not lim­it­ed to:
  
• Project sched­ule devel­op­ment of plan­ning, envi­ron­men­tal, design, and con­struc­tion engi­neer­ing inspec­tion activities;
  
• Prepar­ing design cri­te­ria and bridg­ing doc­u­ments com­mon­ly used for alter­na­tive project deliv­ery meth­ods for design build contract;
  
• Review and analy­sis of pro­fes­sion­al engi­neer­ing issues con­tained in response sub­mit­ted by con­sul­tants com­pet­ing for pro­fes­sion­al ser­vice contracts;
  
• Con­duct scope of ser­vice meet­ings with oth­er pro­fes­sion­al consultants;
  
• Prepa­ra­tion of con­trac­tu­al ser­vices in accor­dance with all applic­a­ble laws, rules, and regulations; 
• Super­vi­sion and man­age­ment of engi­neer­ing con­sul­tants on indi­vid­ual Task Orders, respond­ing to their tech­ni­cal ques­tions, and review­ing their work in progress and com­plet­ed work;
• Review­ing ana­lyz­ing, and accept­ing mill test reports for mate­ri­als and equipment;
  
• Rep­re­sent­ing the Dis­trict dur­ing pro­fes­sion­al ser­vice nego­ti­a­tions with con­sul­tants, util­i­ties, con­trac­tors, and oth­er entities;
• Oth­er activ­i­ties asso­ci­at­ed with the admin­is­tra­tion and man­age­ment of pro­fes­sion­al con­sult­ing services.
• Plan­ning, over­see­ing and man­ag­ing the Projects and the var­i­ous design­ers, engi­neers, con­sul­tants, sup­pli­ers, con­struc­tion man­agers and con­trac­tors that may be retained by the District.
  

• Assist­ing the Air­port in adver­tis­ing and secur­ing bids, nego­ti­at­ing for ser­vices, ana­lyz­ing bid results, fur­nish­ing rec­om­men­da­tions on the award of con­tracts and prepar­ing con­tract documents. 

• Con­struc­tion Phase ser­vices as that term is defined by sec­tion 1.4.2.4 in FAA Advi­so­ry Cir­cu­lar 150- 5100 – 14 

• Project Close­out Ser­vices as that term is defined in sec­tion 1.4.2.5 in FAA Advi­so­ry Cir­cu­lar 150−5100− 14.
  

The suc­cess­ful Respon­dent shall per­form all work in a time­ly man­ner and shall be respon­si­ble for ensur­ing coor­di­na­tion of its work with the Dis­trict. The Dis­trict requires all ser­vices per­formed by the firm to com­ply with accept­able pro­fes­sion­al con­sult­ing prac­tices. Con­sul­tant shall not per­form ser­vices which may allow for a con­flict with FAA AIP pro­cure­ment require­ments or which would oth­er­wise allow the Con­sul­tant to apply undue influ­ence on the District’s decisions. 

1. Project Task Orders 

All work to be pro­vid­ed by the Con­sul­tant and/​or Firm, if any, will be set forth in Task Orders. The Task Orders will be issued under the Mas­ter Pro­fes­sion­al Ser­vices Con­tract. Each Task Order shall set forth the spe­cif­ic ser­vices to be per­formed, the key per­son­nel to pro­vide the ser­vices, the not to exceed cost of the ser­vices, and the com­ple­tion date for the services. 

Task Orders may require mul­ti­ple dis­ci­plines with vary­ing scopes. Below are exam­ples of dis­ci­plines, expe­ri­ence which may be cov­ered by task orders:

• Air­port Plan­ning and Design 

• Build­ing Design and Construction 

• Road­way Design and Construction 

• Air­field Design and Construction 

• Air­field Lighting 

• Apron Design and Construction 

• Taxi­way Con­struc­tion and Reconstruction 

• Run­way Con­struc­tion and Reconstruction 

• Air­craft Park­ing Apron Construction 

• Park­ing Facil­i­ty Design and Construction 

• Land Acqui­si­tion

• Drainage and Stormwa­ter Relat­ed Projects 

• Air­field Light­ing Improvements 

• Ten­ant Facil­i­ty Relocation 

• Project Inspec­tion

• Con­struc­tion Admin­is­tra­tions and Man­age­ment Services 

• Air­port Plan­ning and Design 

• Reg­u­la­to­ry Compliance 

• Envi­ron­men­tal Mit­i­ga­tion Efforts 

• Grant Appli­ca­tions and Compliance

a. Cri­te­ria and infor­ma­tion appro­pri­ate to Dis­trict require­ments for the Con­sul­tant includ­ing objec­tives, bud­get lim­i­ta­tions and time restraints. 

b. All Dis­trict poli­cies, pro­ce­dures, stan­dards and oth­er infor­ma­tion applic­a­ble to the services. 

c. All spec­i­fi­ca­tions sched­ules, reports and oth­er infor­ma­tion pre­pared by or for the Dis­trict by oth­ers that are avail­able to the Dis­trict and the Dis­trict con­sid­ers per­ti­nent to the Con­sul­tants respon­si­bil­i­ties described here­in and/​or Task Order.

d. Avail­able traf­fic or air traf­fic data that may relate to the Con­sul­tants task.

3. Assign­ment and Subcontractors
The Con­sul­tant will main­tain an ade­quate and com­pe­tent pro­fes­sion­al staff to enable a time­ly per­for­mance of the ser­vices under the result­ing con­tract. The Con­sul­tant is ful­ly respon­si­ble for the sat­is­fac­to­ry com­ple­tion of work regard­less if the work being pro­vid­ed is by a con­sult­ing firm or a sub­con­sul­tant or sub­con­trac­tor. The Con­sul­tant will not sub­let, assign or trans­fer any work under the result­ing con­tract or Task Orders to any con­sul­tant or con­trac­tor that is not spec­i­fied in the result­ing con­tract with­out writ­ten con­sent from the District. 

All subconsultant/​subcontractor agree­ments must adhere to the same terms and con­di­tions the Dis­trict requires the Con­sul­tant to adhere to in the result­ing con­tract and/​or Task Orders that the Dis­trict enters into. 

If the Task Order requires a pro­fes­sion­al ser­vice the Dis­trict will fol­low all rules, reg­u­la­tions and laws estab­lished in deter­mine the most qual­i­fied con­sul­tant for that par­tic­u­lar Task Order 

4. Pay­ments and Finan­cial Consequences 

Con­sul­tant shall be paid in accor­dance with the result­ing con­tract and Task Orders defin­ing the ser­vices being per­formed, time­lines estab­lished and prop­er sub­mit­tals of required doc­u­men­ta­tion. The fees sched­ules will vary depen­dent on each task order. The award­ed ven­dor and sub­con­sul­tants pay­ments will depend upon the scope of ser­vices of each Task Order, rates will be estab­lished on a basis of direct per­son­nel ser­vices, retain­er, cost plus fixed fee, fixed fee plus sum, spe­cif­ic rates, or a com­bi­na­tion of the types of compensation. 

A progress report and invoice must be pro­vid­ed to the Dis­trict for every Task Order or Task Order Change which will prompt pay­ment for the asso­ci­at­ed work per­formed. The progress report must include detailed task that were per­formed for the spe­cif­ic Task Order or Task Order Change. If the per­for­mance of that task Order or Task Order Change were not deliv­ered to the Dis­trict in the man­ner pre­scribed the Dis­trict has the right to with­hold pay­ment. The Con­sul­tant shall re-per­form the task and resub­mit doc­u­men­ta­tion of cor­rec­tion to the Dis­trict for approval with­in the pre­scribed time in each Task Order. If the task is not com­plet­ed with­in the time­frame spec­i­fied, the Dis­trict can retain pay­ment as described in Chap­ter 255.078 F.S., and/​or the Dis­trict may ter­mi­nate the Task Order and/​or Con­tract for fail­ure to fol­low these provisions. 

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Appen­dix A 

Poten­tial Projects List

Appen­dix A, Poten­tial Project List, is a list­ing of Air­port projects includ­ed in the most recent­ly com­plet­ed Air­port Mas­ter Plan and the Mas­ter Plan Update that is cur­rent­ly under­way, along with esti­mat­ed costs as set forth in the cur­rent Trans­porta­tion Plan­ning Orga­ni­za­tion Project Pri­or­i­ty List for inclu­sion in the pro­posed Flori­da Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion Five-Year Work Pro­gram. Please note that inclu­sion of a project in this list does not guar­an­tee that such work will be under­tak­en, nor does it guar­an­tee that pro­fes­sion­al ser­vices award­ed under this con­tract will be des­ig­nat­ed for the project.

III. SOQ RESPONSE REQUIREMENTS

The Air­port does not desire volu­mi­nous sub­mis­sions; there­fore, please lim­it your response to essen­tial infor­ma­tion. By sub­mit­ting a response, your firm agrees to the terms and con­di­tions stat­ed here­in unless explic­it­ly stat­ed oth­er­wise in your response to this SOQ. The Air­port will not reim­burse costs asso­ci­at­ed with devel­op­ment of a response, inter­views or presentations. 

Sub­mit­tals must con­tain the fol­low­ing infor­ma­tion, in the fol­low­ing order: 

A. Title Page 

Title page show­ing the firm’s name, the name, address, tele­phone num­ber, fax num­ber and e‑mail address of the con­tact per­son and the date of the State­ment of Qualifications. 

B. Cov­er Letter 

The Pro­pos­al must include a let­ter of trans­mit­tal attest­ing to its accu­ra­cy, signed by an indi­vid­ual autho­rized to exe­cute bind­ing legal doc­u­ments on behalf of the Respon­dent. The cov­er let­ter shall pro­vide the name, address, tele­phone num­ber and email address of the Respon­dent and the exec­u­tive that has the author­i­ty to con­tract with the Dis­trict. The cov­er let­ter shall also include a state­ment as to the firm’s under­stand­ing of the work to be done and why it believes itself to be the most qual­i­fied to per­form the engage­ment. Please pro­vide a sum­ma­ry of your firm’s his­to­ry, qual­i­fi­ca­tions and its expe­ri­ence in the type of ser­vices request­ed in this SOQ. 

C. Table of Contents 

Should include labeled sec­tions and page num­bers for the Selec­tion Com­mit­tee to eas­i­ly access ref­er­enced material. 

D. Detailed State­ment of Qualifications 

Gen­er­al Requirements:
Detailed State­ment of Qual­i­fi­ca­tions and Expe­ri­ence fol­low­ing the order set forth below. Respons­es that do not fol­low this rec­om­mend­ed for­mat out­line may be deemed unre­spon­sive and dis­qual­i­fied from the process. In addi­tion, fail­ure on the part of a firm to pro­vide the required doc­u­men­ta­tion may be cause for elim­i­na­tion from consideration. 

The pur­pose of this sec­tion is to demon­strate the qual­i­fi­ca­tions, com­pe­tence and capac­i­ty of the firm seek­ing to under­take the ser­vices of the Dis­trict in con­for­mi­ty with the require­ments of this request. As such, the sub­stance of infor­ma­tion sub­mit­ted will car­ry more weight than the form or man­ner of presentation. 

THERE SHALL BE NO DOL­LAR UNITS OR TOTAL COSTS INCLUD­ED IN THE STATE­MENT OF QUAL­I­FI­CA­TIONS. Fees will be nego­ti­at­ed with the high­est ranked firm after eval­u­a­tion and rank­ing of the Respon­dents have been completed. 

The sub­mit­tal shall address all of the points out­lined in this request (exclud­ing any cost infor­ma­tion). The sub­mit­tal should be pre­pared sim­ply and eco­nom­i­cal­ly, pro­vid­ing a straight­for­ward, con­cise descrip­tion of the firm’s capa­bil­i­ties to sat­is­fy the require­ments of this request. While addi­tion­al data may be pre­sent­ed, the fol­low­ing sub­jects, items 1 through 6, must be included.

1. Inde­pen­dence
   The firm shall pro­vide an affir­ma­tive state­ment that it is inde­pen­dent of the Pana­ma City-Bay Coun­ty Air­port and Indus­tri­al Dis­trict, its Board mem­bers and its staff. 

   The firm shall also list and describe the firm’s and pro­posed sub­con­trac­tors’ pro­fes­sion­al rela­tion­ships involv­ing the Dis­trict for the past five (5) years, togeth­er with a state­ment explain­ing why such rela­tion­ships do not con­sti­tute a con­flict of inter­est rel­a­tive to per­form­ing the pro­posed services. 

2. License to Prac­tice in the State of Florida
   An affir­ma­tive state­ment shall be includ­ed that the firm and all assigned key pro­fes­sion­al staff are prop­er­ly registered/​licensed to prac­tice in the State of Flori­da and pro­vide copies of the license for each individual. 

3. Firm Qual­i­fi­ca­tions and Experience
   The sub­mit­tal shall state the size of the firm, the loca­tion of the office from which the work on this engage­ment is to be per­formed and the num­ber and nature of the pro­fes­sion­al staff to be employed in this engage­ment. The firm shall also state whether it is local, region­al, nation­al or inter­na­tion­al in operations. 

   If the sub­mit­tal is based on a joint ven­ture or con­sor­tium, the qual­i­fi­ca­tions of each firm com­pris­ing the joint ven­ture or con­sor­tium shall be sep­a­rate­ly iden­ti­fied, and the firm that is to serve as the prin­ci­pal engi­neer shall be noted. 

   The sub­mit­tal shall include a descrip­tion of the range of ser­vices per­formed by the local office. The sub­mit­tal shall state with par­tic­u­lar­i­ty the Respondent’s capa­bil­i­ty to per­form all or most aspects of the Scope of Ser­vices for the Projects and all recent expe­ri­ence in air­port projects com­pa­ra­ble to the pro­posed task. 

   The firm is also required to sub­mit a copy of the report on its most recent exter­nal qual­i­ty con­trol review or peer review, if applicable. 

   The firm shall pro­vide an affir­ma­tion that the firm meets all spe­cif­ic require­ments imposed by fed­er­al, state or local law or rules and regulations. 

4. Staff Qual­i­fi­ca­tions and Experience
   Iden­ti­fy the prin­ci­pal super­vi­so­ry and man­age­ment staff, includ­ing part­ners, man­agers, oth­er super­vi­sors and spe­cial­ists who will be assigned to this engage­ment, includ­ing staff from oth­er than the local office. Indi­cate whether each per­son is reg­is­tered or licensed to prac­tice their pro­fes­sion in the State of Flori­da. Pro­vide infor­ma­tion on the pro­fes­sion­al expe­ri­ence of each per­son, includ­ing, but not lim­it­ed to, infor­ma­tion on their rep­u­ta­tion and pro­fes­sion­al integri­ty and com­pe­tences and knowl­edge of FAA reg­u­la­tions, poli­cies, and procedures. 

   Pro­vide as much infor­ma­tion as pos­si­ble regard­ing the num­ber, qual­i­fi­ca­tions, expe­ri­ence and train­ing, includ­ing rel­e­vant to their rep­u­ta­tion and pro­fes­sion­al integri­ty and com­pe­tences and knowl­edge of FAA reg­u­la­tions, poli­cies, and pro­ce­dures, con­tin­u­ing pro­fes­sion­al edu­ca­tion, of the spe­cif­ic staff to be assigned to this engage­ment. Indi­cate which staff member(s) will be local and which staff member(s) will be remote. Dis­cuss how the qual­i­ty of staff over the term of the result­ing con­tract will be assured. Include an orga­ni­za­tion­al dia­gram that clear­ly shows the prin­ci­pal dis­tri­b­u­tion of pro­fes­sion­al and super­vi­so­ry per­son­nel. If a change is required between sub­mit­tal and award, the firm must noti­fy the Pro­cure­ment Man­ag­er of the pro­posed replace­ment. Man­agers, super­vi­so­ry staff and spe­cial­ists may be changed if those per­son­nel leave the firm, are pro­mot­ed or are assigned to anoth­er office. These per­son­nel may also be changed for oth­er rea­sons with the express pri­or writ­ten per­mis­sion of the Dis­trict. How­ev­er, in either case, the Dis­trict retains the right to approve or reject replace­ments. Any staff replace­ments must have sub­stan­tial­ly the same or bet­ter qual­i­fi­ca­tions or experience.

5. Sim­i­lar Engage­ments with Oth­er Air­ports or Gov­ern­men­tal Entities 

Any addi­tion­al infor­ma­tion which will allow the Selec­tion Com­mit­tee the abil­i­ty to prop­er­ly eval­u­ate the response. 

E. DBE Status 

Indi­cate whether firm and/​or sub-con­trac­tors are a Dis­ad­van­taged Busi­ness Enter­prise (DBE).

F. Cur­rent Workload 

Pro­vide a list of projects and/​or con­tracts for which the firm is cur­rent­ly respon­si­ble. Pro­vide a list of any projects and/​or con­tracts the firm will be respon­si­ble for through Decem­ber 2025. Respond­ed should pro­vide a brief statement 

G. Insur­ance Cov­er­age / Bond­ing Capacity 

Pro­vide infor­ma­tion regard­ing your insur­ance cov­er­ages and bond­ing capac­i­ty. List applic­a­ble cov­er­age. Ref­er­ence sec­tion I, Overview and Instruc­tions for SOQ, R. Insur­ance Requirements. 

H. Legal Actions 

If applic­a­ble, pro­vide infor­ma­tion on pend­ing or past legal actions at fed­er­al­ly-oblig­at­ed air­ports with­in the past five (5) years for the Respondent. 

I. Request­ed Changes to sign sam­ple Pro­fes­sion­al Ser­vices Contract 

Any request­ed changes to the Mas­ter Pro­fes­sion­al Ser­vices Con­tract (Attach­ment I) shall be indi­cat­ed. Request­ed changes may or may not be considered. 

J. Required Forms 

Pro­vide exe­cut­ed copies of Required Forms as list­ed below: 

The fol­low­ing forms MUST be com­plet­ed by the Respon­dent and attached to the response. Fail­ure to sub­mit these forms may be grounds for dis­qual­i­fi­ca­tion of the Respon­dent from con­sid­er­a­tion. How­ev­er, the Dis­trict reserves the right to waive any minor irreg­u­lar­i­ty if it is in the best inter­est of the Dis­trict to do so.

1. State­ment of Qual­i­fi­ca­tions Certification 

2. Ref­er­ences

3. Non-Col­lu­sion Affi­davit Form 

4. Anti-Lob­by­ing Form 

5. Debar­ment Certification 

6. Trade Restric­tion Certification 

7. Traf­fick­ing in Person 

8. Acknowl­edge­ment of Adden­da (even if none are issued) 

9. Sworn State­ment Pur­suant to Sec­tion 287.133 (3)(A) Flori­da Statutes on Pub­lic Enti­ty Crimes 

10. Dis­ad­van­taged Busi­ness Enter­prise Statement 

    *** End of II. SOQ Response Requirements *** 

IV. SELEC­TION CRI­TE­RIA AND SCORING

A. Gen­er­al

Any prop­er­ly sub­mit­ted response will be reviewed and eval­u­at­ed by the District’s Selec­tion Com­mit­tee. The Selec­tion Com­mit­tee will be com­prised of Dis­trict Board Member(s) and Dis­trict Staff. By sub­mit­ting a response to this SOQ, Respon­dent accepts the eval­u­a­tion process and acknowl­edges the deter­mi­na­tion as judged by the Selec­tion Com­mit­tee and will be rec­om­mend­ed for selec­tion. Fur­ther, the Dis­trict may elect to reject all sub­mit­tals and/​or elect not to select any Consultant. 

The Selec­tion Com­mit­tee will make the final judg­ment and deter­mi­na­tion as to which Con­sul­tant and/​or Firm(s) is best qual­i­fied to per­form the request­ed ser­vices and will employ such analy­sis tech­niques as it deems nec­es­sary to make such judg­ment. The Selec­tion Com­mit­tee may request sub­mis­sion of addi­tion­al infor­ma­tion and/​or an inter­view with select­ed Con­sul­tant and/​or Firms to assist in the eval­u­a­tion process. 

Upon review and eval­u­a­tion of all qual­i­fy­ing response, includ­ing any inter­views that the Dis­trict may require, the Selec­tion Com­mit­tee will select and rec­om­mend the ven­dor that, in its sole judge­ment, is most respon­sive in meet­ing the require­ments and objec­tives of this SOQ as set forth below. The Selec­tion Committee’s rank­ing will then be adopt­ed by the Airport’s Board of Direc­tors at a pub­lic meet­ing of the Board, or the Board will mod­i­fy and adopt a rank­ing and state with par­tic­u­lar­i­ty on the record its rea­sons for reject­ing or mod­i­fy­ing the Selec­tion Committee’s ranking. 

Con­sul­tants and Firms with qual­i­fi­ca­tions spe­cif­ic to air­port expe­ri­ence will have an advan­tage over Con­sul­tants or Firms with­out expe­ri­ence with air­ports. The Eval­u­a­tors will be giv­en instruc­tion to score all respons­es accordingly. 

REMAIN­DER OF PAGE INTEN­TION­AL­LY LEFT BLANK. 

B. Scor­ing

The Dis­trict will assign a numer­ic score from zero (0) to five (5) to each sec­tion of scor­ing criteria.

***See Required Form # 2 for scor­ing of References***

C. Rank­ing for Short List

The Dis­trict will use the total point score to con­vert to rank by each eval­u­a­tor and then cal­cu­late an aver­age rank for each pro­pos­al for all Selec­tion Com­mit­tee Mem­bers. The Dis­trict shall present the aver­age rank­ings to the Board, who will then deter­mine the short list of firms rec­om­mend­ed to par­tic­i­pate in oral discussions. 

For Exam­ple,:

In the event that mul­ti­ple firms have the same raw point score, the rank places those firms are aver­aged and each firm receives that rank. In this case the third and fourth ranks are tied so 3 + 4 = 7; 7 divid­ed by 2 = 3.5. Each firm receives a rank of 3.5.

In deter­min­ing firm respon­si­bil­i­ty, the Dis­trict may con­sid­er any infor­ma­tion evi­denced which comes to its atten­tion and which reflects upon a firm’s capa­bil­i­ty to ful­ly per­form the con­tract require­ments and/​or the firm’s demon­stra­tion of the lev­el of integri­ty and reli­a­bil­i­ty which the Dis­trict deter­mines to be required to assure per­for­mance of the contract.

SELEC­TION CRI­TE­RIA AND ORARL DISCUSSION

KEY PER­SON­NEL (25 POINTS) 

Key personnel’s pro­fes­sion­al back­ground, cal­iber, phys­i­cal loca­tion and avail­abil­i­ty for pro­posed services/​projects.

REF­ER­ENCES (Total 25 POINTS, SEE REQUIRED FORM #2)
Pro­pos­er will be eval­u­at­ed on the extent and qual­i­ty of the ref­er­ences provided. 

(This will be scored in accor­dance with the exam­ple on page 2 of Required Form #2)

TECH­NI­CAL RESPONSE (TOTAL 90 POINTS, 5 POINTS EACH) 

Required con­tent is pro­vid­ed on the Title Page.
Required con­tent is includ­ed in the Cov­er Letter.
Table of Con­tents is includ­ed and has cor­rect mate­r­i­al referenced.
Attes­ta­tion of Independence
Licen­sure is pro­vid­ed for all applic­a­ble staff.
Demon­stra­tion of Firms Qual­i­fi­ca­tions and Experience.
Demon­stra­tion of Assigned Staff’s Qual­i­fi­ca­tions and Education.
Demon­stra­tion of under­stand­ing of sim­i­lar engagements.
Pro­vid­ed knowl­edge to ascer­tain Firms approach and method­ol­o­gy are sufficient. 

OTH­ER (TOTAL 10 POINTS, 5 POINTS EACH)

DBE par­tic­i­pa­tion.

Pro­pos­er will be eval­u­at­ed on the extent and qual­i­ty of the sub­mis­sion response and accept­abil­i­ty of District’s Mas­ter Pro­fes­sion­al Ser­vices Agreement. 

ORAL DIS­CUS­SIONS

After the scor­ing of sub­mit­tals, the Selec­tion Com­mit­tee will short list the top three (3) firms to attend oral dis­cus­sions. This will pro­vide firms and the Selec­tion Com­mit­tee the oppor­tu­ni­ty to answer any ques­tions the Com­mit­tee may have on a Respondent’s submittal.

*** End of Sec­tion IV, Selec­tion Cri­te­ria and Scoring ***

REQUIRED FORM #1

STATE­MENT OF QUAL­I­FI­CA­TIONS CER­TI­FI­CA­TION SOQ-2023 – 02 

In com­pli­ance with the Request for Response and sub­ject to all con­di­tions there­of, the under­signed cer­ti­fies that all infor­ma­tion con­tained in this State­ment of Qual­i­fi­ca­tions is accu­rate and true and that any mis­rep­re­sen­ta­tion here­in is grounds for non-con­sid­er­a­tion, or dis­missal in the event of selec­tion or con­tract award by the Airport. 

____________________

DATE

____________________

AUTHO­RIZED SIGNATURE

____________________

PRINT OR TYPE NAME ABOVE

____________________

COM­PA­NY NAME

____________________

COM­PA­NY ADDRESS

____________________

CITY, STATE, ZIP+4

____________________

COM­PA­NY TELE­PHONE NUM­BER COM­PA­NY FAX NUMBER

____________________

CON­TACT EMAIL ADDRESS

____________________

FED­ER­AL EMPLOY­ER IDEN­TI­FI­CA­TION NO. DUNS NO. (if applic­a­ble)

____________________ 

SCDOT DBE NAICS Codes (if applic­a­ble)

REQUIRED FORM #2

REF­ER­ENCES

List a min­i­mum of three (3) ref­er­ences of indi­vid­u­als who can attest to the Respondent’s expe­ri­ence. Pro­vide the name, tele­phone num­ber, and email address of at least three (3) appro­pri­ate ref­er­ences famil­iar with the qual­i­ty of work done by the firm on sim­i­lar projects. (use addi­tion­al sheets if necessary) 

ENTITY______________________________________

CON­TACT PERSON______________________________________

TELE­PHONE ______________________________________

EMAIL ADDRESS______________________________________

ENTITY______________________________________

CON­TACT PERSON______________________________________

TELE­PHONE ______________________________________

EMAIL ADDRESS______________________________________

ENTITY______________________________________

CON­TACT PERSON______________________________________

TELE­PHONE ______________________________________

EMAIL ADDRESS______________________________________

FOR DIS­TRICT USE ONLY

EXHIB­IT A
CRI­TE­RI­ON FOR SCOR­ING REFERNCES 

For Ques­tions 3 – 5:

Supe­ri­or (5 points) Excel­lent (4 points) Sat­is­fac­to­ry (3 points) Fair (2 points) Poor (1 point) 

REQUIRED FORM #3

NON-COL­LU­SION AFFI­DAVIT FORM 

STATE OF _________________________

COUN­TY OF _________________________

______________________________________

being first duly sworn, depos­es and says that he/​she is

______________________________________

(Sole own­er, a part­ner, pres­i­dent, sec­re­tary, etc.) 

of ______________________________________

the par­ty mak­ing the fore­go­ing Sub­mit­tal that such sub­mit­tal is gen­uine and not col­lu­sive or sham; that said Respon­dent has not col­lud­ed, con­spired, con­nived, or agreed, direct­ly or indi­rect­ly with any RESPON­DENT or per­son, to put in a sham State­ment of Qual­i­fi­ca­tions, or that such oth­er per­son shall refrain from offer­ing and has not in any man­ner, direct­ly or indi­rect­ly sought by agree­ment or col­lu­sion, or com­mu­ni­ca­tion or con­fer­ence, with any per­son to fix the sub­mit­tal of affi­ant or any oth­er RESPON­DENT or to fix any over­head, prof­it or cost ele­ment of said Sub­mit­tal or of that of any oth­er RESPON­DENT or to secure any advan­tage against OWN­ER any per­son inter­est­ed in the pro­posed con­tract; and that all state­ments in said Sub­mit­tal are true; and fur­ther, that such RESPON­DENT has not, direct­ly or indi­rect­ly sub­mit­ted this State­ment of Qual­i­fi­ca­tions, or the con­tents there­of, or divulged infor­ma­tion or date rel­a­tive there­to to any asso­ci­a­tion or to any mem­ber or agent thereof. 

______________________________________

(Sig­na­ture of Respondent)
Sworn to and sub­scribed before me this ___________ day of 

____________________, 20___.

______________________________________

(Notary Pub­lic in and for) 

State:_______________________________

County:_______________________________

My com­mis­sion expires ________________________, 20____________.

REQUIRED FORM #4

ANTI-LOB­BY­ING FORM CER­TI­FI­CA­TION REGARD­ING LOBBYING 

I_______________________, here­by cer­ti­fy on behalf of ____________________, to the best of my knowl­edge and belief, that:

1. No Fed­er­al appro­pri­at­ed funds have been paid or will be paid, by or on behalf of the Bid­der or Offer­or, to any per­son for influ­enc­ing or attempt­ing to influ­ence an offi­cer or employ­ee of an agency, a Mem­ber of Con­gress, an offi­cer or employ­ee of Con­gress, or an employ­ee of a Mem­ber of Con­gress in con­nec­tion with the award­ing of any Fed­er­al con­tract, the mak­ing of any Fed­er­al grant, the mak­ing of any Fed­er­al loan, the enter­ing into of any coop­er­a­tive agree­ment, and the exten­sion, con­tin­u­a­tion, renew­al, amend­ment, or mod­i­fi­ca­tion of any Fed­er­al con­tract, grant, loan, or coop­er­a­tive agreement. 

2. If any funds oth­er than Fed­er­al appro­pri­at­ed funds have been paid or will be paid to any per­son for influ­enc­ing or attempt­ing to influ­ence an offi­cer or employ­ee of any agency, a Mem­ber of Con­gress, an offi­cer or employ­ee of Con­gress, or an employ­ee of a Mem­ber of Con­gress in con­nec­tion with this Fed­er­al con­tract, grant, loan, or coop­er­a­tive agree­ment, the under­signed shall com­plete and sub­mit Stan­dard Form- LLL, ​“Dis­clo­sure Form to Report Lob­by­ing,” in accor­dance with its instructions. 

3. The under­signed shall require that the lan­guage of this cer­ti­fi­ca­tion be includ­ed in the award doc­u­ments for all sub-awards at all tiers (includ­ing sub­con­tracts, sub-grants, and con­tracts under grants, loans, and coop­er­a­tive agree­ments) and that all sub-recip­i­ents shall cer­ti­fy and dis­close accordingly. 

This cer­ti­fi­ca­tion is a mate­r­i­al rep­re­sen­ta­tion of fact upon which reliance was placed when this trans­ac­tion was made or entered into. Sub­mis­sion of this cer­ti­fi­ca­tion is a pre­req­ui­site for mak­ing or enter­ing into this trans­ac­tion imposed by sec­tion 1352, title 31, U.S. Code. Any per­son who fails to file the required cer­ti­fi­ca­tion shall be sub­ject to a civ­il penal­ty of not less than $10,000 and not more than 

$100,000 for each such fail­ure. Exe­cut­ed this ______________ day of_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​, _________.

By_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​
(sig­na­ture of autho­rized official) 

____________________________

(title of autho­rized official) 

REQUIRED FORM #5

CER­TI­FI­CA­TION OF OFFERER/BIDDER REGARD­ING DEBARMENT

(BID­DER OR OFFER­OR CERTIFICATION) 

By sub­mit­ting a pro­pos­al under this solic­i­ta­tion, the Respon­dent cer­ti­fies that nei­ther it nor its prin­ci­pals are present­ly debarred or sus­pend­ed by any Fed­er­al depart­ment or agency from par­tic­i­pa­tion in this transaction. 

CER­TI­FI­CA­TION OF LOW­ER TIER CON­SUL­TANTS / CON­TRAC­TORS REGARD­ING DEBARMENT 

(LOW­ER TIER CON­TRACT CERTIFICATION) 

The suc­cess­ful Respon­dent, by admin­is­ter­ing each low­er tier sub­con­tract that exceeds twen­ty-five thou­sand dol­lars ($25,000) as a ​“cov­ered trans­ac­tion” under the project is not present­ly debarred or oth­er­wise dis­qual­i­fied from par­tic­i­pa­tion in this fed­er­al­ly assist­ed project. The suc­cess­ful bid­der will accom­plish this by: 

1. Check­ing the Sys­tem for Award Man­age­ment at web­site: http://​www​.sam​.gov.

2. Col­lect­ing a cer­ti­fi­ca­tion state­ment sim­i­lar to the Cer­tifi­cate Regard­ing Debar­ment and 

   Sus­pen­sion (Bid­der or Offer­or), above. 

3. Insert­ing a clause or con­di­tion in the cov­ered trans­ac­tion with the low­er tier contract. 

If the FAA lat­er deter­mines that a low­er tier par­tic­i­pant failed to dis­close to a high­er tier par­tic­i­pant that it was exclud­ed or dis­qual­i­fied at the time it entered the cov­ered trans­ac­tion, the FAA may pur­sue any avail­able reme­dies, includ­ing sus­pen­sion and debar­ment of the non-com­pli­ant participant. 

____________________________

SIG­NA­TURE OF CONSULTANT 

____________________________

DATE

____________________________

PRINT­ED NAME

____________________________

TITLE 

REQUIRED FORM #6

TRADE RESTRIC­TION CERTIFICATION

By sub­mis­sion of an offer, the Respon­dent cer­ti­fies that with respect to this solic­i­ta­tion and any resul­tant con­tract, the Respondent — 

1. is not owned or con­trolled by one or more cit­i­zens of a for­eign coun­try includ­ed in the list of coun­tries that dis­crim­i­nate against U.S. firms as pub­lished by the Office of the Unit­ed States Trade Rep­re­sen­ta­tive (U.S.T.R.);

2. has not know­ing­ly entered into any con­tract or sub­con­tract for this project with a per­son that is a cit­i­zen or nation­al of a for­eign coun­try includ­ed on the list of coun­tries that dis­crim­i­nate against U.S. firms as pub­lished by the U.S.T.R; and

3. has not entered into any sub­con­tract for any prod­uct to be used on the Fed­er­al on the project that is pro­duced in a for­eign coun­try includ­ed on the list of coun­tries that dis­crim­i­nate against U.S. firms pub­lished by the U.S.T.R.

This cer­ti­fi­ca­tion con­cerns a mat­ter with­in the juris­dic­tion of an agency of the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca and the mak­ing of a false, fic­ti­tious, or fraud­u­lent cer­ti­fi­ca­tion may ren­der the mak­er sub­ject to pros­e­cu­tion under Title 18, Unit­ed States Code, Sec­tion 1001. 

The Respon­dent must pro­vide imme­di­ate writ­ten notice to the Own­er if the Offeror/​Contractor learns that its cer­ti­fi­ca­tion or that of a sub­con­trac­tor was erro­neous when sub­mit­ted or has become erro­neous by rea­son of changed cir­cum­stances. The Con­trac­tor must require sub­con­trac­tors pro­vide imme­di­ate writ­ten notice to the Con­trac­tor if at any time it learns that its cer­ti­fi­ca­tion was erro­neous by rea­son of changed circumstances. 

Unless the restric­tions of this clause are waived by the Sec­re­tary of Trans­porta­tion in accor­dance with 49 CFR 30.17, no con­tract shall be award­ed to an Offer­or or subcontractor: 

(1) who is owned or con­trolled by one or more cit­i­zens or nation­als of a for­eign coun­try includ­ed on the list of coun­tries that dis­crim­i­nate against U.S. firms pub­lished by the U.S.T.R. or 

(2) whose sub­con­trac­tors are owned or con­trolled by one or more cit­i­zens or nation­als of a for­eign coun­try on such U.S.T.R. list or 

(3) who incor­po­rates in the pub­lic works project any prod­uct of a for­eign coun­try on such U.S.T.R. list; 

Noth­ing con­tained in the fore­go­ing shall be con­strued to require estab­lish­ment of a sys­tem of records in order to ren­der, in good faith, the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion required by this pro­vi­sion. The knowl­edge and infor­ma­tion of a con­trac­tor is not required to exceed that which is nor­mal­ly pos­sessed by a pru­dent per­son in the ordi­nary course of busi­ness dealings. 

The Offer­or agrees that, if award­ed a con­tract result­ing from this solic­i­ta­tion, it will incor­po­rate this pro­vi­sion for cer­ti­fi­ca­tion with­out mod­i­fi­ca­tion in in all low­er tier sub­con­tracts. The con­trac­tor may rely on the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion of a prospec­tive sub­con­trac­tor that it is not a firm from a for­eign coun­try includ­ed on the list of coun­tries that dis­crim­i­nate against U.S. firms as pub­lished by U.S.T.R, unless the Offer­or has knowl­edge that the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion is erroneous. 

This cer­ti­fi­ca­tion is a mate­r­i­al rep­re­sen­ta­tion of fact upon which reliance was placed when mak­ing an award. If it is lat­er deter­mined that the Con­trac­tor or sub­con­trac­tor know­ing­ly ren­dered an erro­neous cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, the Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion may direct through the Own­er can­cel­la­tion of the con­tract or sub­con­tract for default at no cost to the Own­er or the FAA. 

____________________________

SIG­NA­TURE OF CONSULTANT 

____________________________

DATE

____________________________

TITLE

REQUIRED FORM #7

TRAF­FICK­ING IN PERSONS 

I, ____________________________, here­by cer­ti­fy on (name and title of Respondent’s official) 

behalf of_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​

(name of Respondent) 

that:

Pro­hi­bi­tions: The pro­hi­bi­tions against traf­fick­ing in per­sons (Pro­hi­bi­tions) that apply to any enti­ty oth­er than a State, local gov­ern­ment, Indi­an tribe, or for­eign pub­lic enti­ty. This includes pri­vate Dis­tricts, pub­lic Dis­trict employ­ees, sub­re­cip­i­ents of pri­vate or pub­lic Dis­tricts (pri­vate enti­ty) are: 

(1) Engag­ing in serve forms of traf­fick­ing in per­sons dur­ing the peri­od of time that the agree­ment is in effect; 

(2) Procur­ing a com­mer­cial sex act dur­ing the peri­od of time that the agree­ment is in effect; or 

(3) Using forced labor in the per­for­mance of the agree­ment, includ­ing sub­con­tracts or sub agree­ments under the agreement. 

In addi­tion to all oth­er reme­dies for non­com­pli­ance that are avail­able to the FAA, Sec­tion 106(g) of the Traf­fick­ing Vic­tims Pro­tec­tion Act of 2000 (TVPA), as amend­ed (22 U.S.C. 7104(g)), allows the FAA to uni­lat­er­al­ly ter­mi­nate this agree­ment, with­out penal­ty, if a pri­vate entity – 

(1) Is deter­mined to have vio­lat­ed the Pro­hi­bi­tions; or

(2) Has an employ­ee who the FAA deter­mines has vio­lat­ed the Pro­hi­bi­tions through con­duct that is either –

a. Asso­ci­at­ed with per­for­mance under this agree­ment; or

b. Imput­ed to the Dis­trict or sub-recip­i­ent using 2 CFR part 180, ​“OMB Guide­lines to Agen­cies on Gov­ern­ment wide Debar­ment and Sus­pen­sion (Non- pro­cure­ment),” as imple­ment­ed by the FAA at 49 CFR Part 29.

Exe­cut­ed this _________________________ day of _______________ , 20_________.

By:

________________________

(sig­na­ture of autho­rized official) 

________________________

(title of autho­rized official) 

REQUIRED FORM #8

ACKNOWL­EDGE­MENT OF ADDENDA 

Respon­dent here­by acknowl­edges receipt of all Adden­da through and including: 

Adden­dum No. ________________________ , dat­ed ______________________ . 

Adden­dum No. ________________________ , dat­ed ______________________ . 

Adden­dum No. ________________________ , dat­ed ______________________ . 

Adden­dum No. ________________________ , dat­ed ______________________ . 

Com­pa­ny: ________________________

Autho­rized Sig­na­ture: ________________________

Print Name: ________________________ 

REQUIRED FORM #9

SWORN STATE­MENT PUR­SUANT TO SEC­TION 287.133(3)(A) FLORI­DA STATUTES ON PUB­LIC ENTI­TY CRIMES

THIS FORM MUST BE SIGNED AND SWORN TO IN THE PRES­ENCE OF A NOTARY PUB­LIC OR OTH­ER OFFI­CIAL AUTHO­RIZED TO ADMIN­IS­TER OATHS. 

1. This sworn state­ment is sub­mit­ted to the Pana­ma City-Bay Coun­ty Air­port and Indus­tri­al Dis­trict by_________________________________________________ 

(print individual’s name and title) 

for_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​(print name and enti­ty sub­mit­ting sworn statement) 

whose busi­ness address is_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​____________________________________________________________

and (if applic­a­ble) its Fed­er­al Employ­er Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion Num­ber (FEIN) is ______________
(if the enti­ty has no FEIN, include the Social Secu­ri­ty Num­ber of the indi­vid­ual sign­ing this sworn 

state­ment: ______________________________.) 

2. I under­stand that a ​“Pub­lic enti­ty crime” as defined in Para­graph 287.133(1)(g), Flori­da Statutes, means a vio­la­tion of any state or fed­er­al law by a per­son with respect to and direct­ly relat­ed to the trans­ac­tion of busi­ness with any pub­lic enti­ty or with an agency or polit­i­cal sub­di­vi­sion of any oth­er state or of the Unit­ed States, includ­ing, but not lim­it­ed to, any bid or con­tract for goods or ser­vices to be pro­vid­ed to any pub­lic enti­ty or an agency or polit­i­cal sub­di­vi­sion of any oth­er state or of the Unit­ed States, involv­ing antitrust, fraud, theft, bribery, col­lu­sion, rack­e­teer­ing, con­spir­a­cy, or mate­r­i­al misrepresentation. 

3. I under­stand that ​“con­vict­ed” or ​“con­vic­tion” as defined in Para­graph 287.133(1)(b), Flori­da Statutes, means a find­ing of guilt or a con­vic­tion of a pub­lic enti­ty crime, with or with­out an adju­di­ca­tion of guilt, in any fed­er­al or state tri­al court of record relat­ing to charges brought by indict­ment or infor­ma­tion after July 1, 1989, as a result of a jury ver­dict, non­jury tri­al, or entry of a plea of guilty or nolo contendere. 

4. I under­stand that an ​“affil­i­ate” as defined in Para­graph 287.133(1)(a), Flori­da Statutes, means:

b. An enti­ty under the con­trol of any nat­ur­al per­son who is active in the man­age­ment of the enti­ty and who has been con­vict­ed of a pub­lic enti­ty crime. The term ​“affil­i­ate” includes those offi­cers, direc­tors, exec­u­tives, part­ners, share­hold­ers, employ­ees, mem­bers, and agents who are active in the man­age­ment of an affil­i­ate. The own­er­ship by one per­son of shares con­sti­tut­ing a con­trol­ling inter­est in anoth­er per­son, or a pool­ing of equip­ment or income among per­sons when not for fair mar­ket val­ue under an arm’s length agree­ment, shall be a pri­ma facie case that one per­son con­trols anoth­er per­son. A per­son who know­ing­ly enters into a joint ven­ture with a per­son who has been con­vict­ed of a pub­lic enti­ty crime in Flori­da dur­ing the preceding

36 months shall be con­sid­ered an affiliate. 

5. I under­stand that a ​“per­son” as defined in Para­graph 287.133(1)(a), Flori­da Statutes, means any nat­ur­al per­son or enti­ty orga­nized under the laws of any state or of the Unit­ed States with the legal pow­er to enter into a bind­ing con­tract and which bids or applies to bid on con­tracts for the pro­vi­sion of goods or ser­vices let by a pub­lic enti­ty, or which oth­er­wise trans­acts or applies to trans­act busi­ness with a pub­lic enti­ty. The term ​“per­son” includes those offi­cers, direc­tors, exec­u­tives, part­ners, share­hold­ers, employ­ees, mem­bers, and agents who are active­ly in man­age­ment of an entity. 

6. Based on infor­ma­tion and belief, the state­ment that I have marked below is true in rela­tion to the enti­ty sub­mit­ting this sworn state­ment. (Indi­cate which state­ment applies.) 

_​_​_​_​_​Neither the enti­ty sub­mit­ting this sworn state­ment, not any of its offi­cers, direc­tors, exec­u­tives, part­ners, share­hold­ers, employ­ees, mem­bers, or agents who are active­ly in the man­age­ment of the enti­ty, nor any affil­i­ate of the enti­ty has been charged with and con­vict­ed of a pub­lic enti­ty crime sub­se­quent to July 1, 1989. 

_​_​_​_​_​The enti­ty sub­mit­ting this sworn state­ment, or one or more of its offi­cers, direc­tors, exec­u­tives, part­ners, share­hold­ers, employ­ees, mem­bers, or agents who are active in the man­age­ment of the enti­ty, or an affil­i­ate of the enti­ty has been charged with and con­vict­ed of a pub­lic enti­ty crime sub­se­quent to July 1, 1989. 

_​_​_​_​_​The enti­ty sub­mit­ting this sworn state­ment, or one or more of its offi­cers, direc­tors, exec­u­tives, part­ners, share­hold­ers, employ­ees, mem­bers, or agents who are active in the man­age­ment of the enti­ty, or an affil­i­ate of the enti­ty has been charged with and con­vict­ed of a pub­lic enti­ty crime sub­se­quent to July 1, 1989. How­ev­er, there has been a sub­se­quent pro­ceed­ing before a Hear­ing Offi­cer of the State of Flori­da, Divi­sion of Admin­is­tra­tive Hear­ings and the Final Order entered by the Hear­ing Offi­cer deter­mined that it was not in the pub­lic inter­est to place the enti­ty sub­mit­ting this sworn state­ment on the con­vict­ed ven­dor list. (Attach a copy of the final order.) 

I UNDER­STAND THAT THE SUB­MIS­SION OF THIS FORM TO THE CON­TRACT­ING OFFI­CER FOR THE PUB­LIC ENTI­TY IDEN­TI­FIED IN PARA­GRAPH 1 ABOVE IS FOR THAT PUB­LIC ENTI­TY ONLY, AND THAT THIS FORM IS VALID THROUGH DECEM­BER 31 OF THE CAL­EN­DAR YEAR IN WHICH IT IS FILED. I ALSO UNDER­STAND THAT I AM REQUIRED TO INFORM THE PUB­LIC ENTI­TY PRI­OR TO ENTER­ING INTO A CON­TRACT IN EXCESS OF THE THRESH­OLD AMOUNT PRO­VID­ED IN SEC­TION 287.017, FLORI­DA STATUTES FOR CAT­E­GO­RY TWO OF ANY CHANGE IN THE INFOR­MA­TION CON­TAINED IN THIS FORM.

_____________________________________ Sig­na­ture

Sworn to and sub­scribed before me this ______ day of ______________________, 202_. 

Per­son­al­ly known ______ or pro­duced iden­ti­fi­ca­tion _____. 

_____________________________________ Notary Public 

My com­mis­sion expires _________________ 

REQUIRED FORM #10

DIS­AD­VAN­TAGED BUSI­NESS ENTER­PRISE PROGRAM

The fol­low­ing bid con­di­tion applies to this U.S. Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion (DOT) assist­ed con­tract. Sub­mis­sion of a bid/​proposal by a prospec­tive con­trac­tor shall con­sti­tute full accep­tance of these bid conditions. 

1. DEF­I­N­I­TION - Dis­ad­van­taged Busi­ness Enter­prise (DBE) as used in this con­tract shall have the same mean­ing as defined in 49 CFR Part 26. 

2. POL­I­CY - It is the pol­i­cy of DOT that DBE’s as: defined in 49 CFR Part 26 shall have the max­i­mum oppor­tu­ni­ty to par­tic­i­pate in the per­for­mance of con­tracts and sub­con­tracts financed in whole or in part with Fed­er­al funds. Con­se­quent­ly, the DBE require­ments of 49 CFR Part 26 apply to this contract. 

3. OBLIG­A­TION - The con­trac­tor agrees to ensure that DBE’s as defined in 49 CFR Part 26 have the max­i­mum oppor­tu­ni­ty to par­tic­i­pate in the per­for­mance of con­tracts and sub­con­tracts financed in whole or in part with Fed­er­al funds. In this regard, all con­trac­tors shall take all nec­es­sary and rea­son­able steps in accor­dance with 49 CFR Part 26 to ensure that DBE’s have the max­i­mum oppor­tu­ni­ty to com­pete for and per­form con­tracts. Con­trac­tors shall not dis­crim­i­nate on the basis of race, col­or, nation­al ori­gin, or sex in the award and per­for­mance of DOT assist­ed contracts. 

4. COM­PLI­ANCE - All bid­ders, poten­tial con­trac­tors, or sub­con­trac­tors for this DOT assist­ed con­tract are here­by noti­fied that fail­ure to car­ry out the DOT pol­i­cy and the DBE oblig­a­tion, as set forth above, shall con­sti­tute a breach of con­tract which may result in ter­mi­na­tion of the con­tract or such oth­er rem­e­dy as deemed appro­pri­ate by the owner. 

5. CON­TRACT CLAUSE - All bid­ders and poten­tial con­trac­tors here­by assure that they will include the above claus­es in all sub­con­tracts, which offer fur­ther sub­con­tract­ing opportunities. 

6. CON­TRACT AWARD - Bid­ders are here­by advised that meet­ing the DBE sub­con­tract goal or mak­ing an accept­able good faith effort to meet said goal are con­di­tions of being award­ed this DOT assigned contract. 

   The own­er pro­pos­es to award the con­tract to the low­est respon­sive and respon­si­ble bid­der sub­mit­ting a rea­son­able bid pro­vid­ed he has met the goal for DBE par­tic­i­pa­tion or, if fail­ing to meet the goal, he has made an accept­able good faith effort to meet the estab­lished goal for DBE par­tic­i­pa­tion. Bid­der is advised that the own­er reserves the right to reject any or all bids submitted. 

7. DBE PAR­TIC­I­PA­TION GOAL - The attain­ment of the goal estab­lished for this con­tract is to be mea­sured as a per­cent­age of the total dol­lar val­ue of the con­tract. The DBE goal estab­lished for this con­tract is 7.98% for FY 2021, 6.30% for FY 2022, and 8.09% for FY 2023, result­ing in an over­all goal of 7.46% for all FAA- AIP fund­ed projects. 

8. AVAIL­ABLE DBEs - The own­er has on file a DBE pro­gram pend­ing approved by the Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion. This pro­gram con­tains a list­ing of DBEs (cer­ti­fied and uncer­ti­fied). Bid­ders are encour­aged to inspect this list to assist in locat­ing DBEs for the work. Oth­er DBEs may be added to the list in accor­dance with the own­er’s approved DBE pro­gram. Cred­it toward the DBE goal will not be count­ed unless the DBE to be used can be cer­ti­fied by the owner.

9. CON­TRAC­TOR’S REQUIRED SUB­MIS­SION — The own­er requires the sub­mis­sion of the fol­low­ing infor­ma­tion with the bid:

DIS­AD­VAN­TAGED BUSI­NESS ENTER­PRISE PRO­GRAM MBEs 

MBE Sub­con­trac­tors

Names/​Addresses/​Iden­ti­ty

____________________________

____________________________

____________________________

MBEs

Sub­con­tract Work Description

____________________________

____________________________

____________________________

Women Sub­con­trac­tors

Names/​Addresses/​Iden­ti­ty

____________________________

____________________________

____________________________

WBEs

Sub­con­tract Work Description

____________________________

____________________________

____________________________

Oth­er Social­ly and Eco­nom­i­cal­ly Dis­ad­van­taged Sub­con­trac­tors with­in the DBE Group 

Names/​Addresses/​Iden­ti­ty

____________________________

____________________________

____________________________

OSEs*

Sub­con­tract Work Description 

____________________________

____________________________

____________________________

*(Black, His­pan­ic, Asian Amer­i­can, Amer­i­can Indi­an, and oth­er eco­nom­i­cal­ly disadvantaged.) 

If the Con­trac­tor fails to meet the con­tract goal estab­lished in Sec­tion 7 above, the fol­low­ing infor­ma­tion must be sub­mit­ted pri­or to con­tract award to assist the own­er in deter­min­ing whether or not the con­trac­tor made accept­able good faith efforts to meet the con­tract goal. This infor­ma­tion (when applic­a­ble), as well as the DBE infor­ma­tion, should be sub­mit­ted as spec­i­fied in Sec­tion 9 above.

Sug­gest­ed guid­ance for use in deter­min­ing if good faith efforts were made by a con­trac­tor are includ­ed in 49 CFR Part 26. 

A list of the efforts that a con­trac­tor may make and the own­er may use in decid­ing as to the accept­abil­i­ty of a con­trac­tor’s efforts to meet the goal as includ­ed in 49 CFR Part 26 are as follows: 

1. Whether the con­trac­tor attend­ed any pre-solic­i­ta­tion or pre-bid meet­ings that were sched­uled by the recip­i­ent to inform DBE’s of con­tract­ing and sub­con­tract­ing opportunities; 

2. Whether the con­trac­tor adver­tised in gen­er­al cir­cu­la­tion, trade asso­ci­a­tion, and minor­i­ty- focus media con­cern­ing the sub­con­tract­ing opportunities; 

3. Whether the con­trac­tor pro­vid­ed writ­ten notice to a rea­son­able num­ber of spe­cif­ic DBE’s that their inter­est in the con­tract was being solicit­ed in suf­fi­cient time to allow the DBE’s to par­tic­i­pate effectively; 

4. Whether the con­trac­tor fol­lowed up ini­tial solic­i­ta­tions of inter­est by con­tact­ing DBE’s to deter­mine with cer­tain­ty whether the DBE’s were interested; 

5. Whether the con­trac­tor select­ed por­tions of work to be per­formed by DBE’s in order to increase the like­li­hood of meet­ing the DBE goal (includ­ing, where appro­pri­ate, break­ing down con­tracts into eco­nom­i­cal­ly fea­si­ble units to facil­i­tate DBE participation); 

6. Whether the con­trac­tor pro­vid­ed inter­est­ed DBE’s with ade­quate infor­ma­tion about the plans, spec­i­fi­ca­tions, and require­ments of the contract; 

7. Whether the con­trac­tor nego­ti­at­ed in good faith with inter­est­ed DBE’s, not reject­ing DBE’s as unqual­i­fied with­out sound rea­sons based on a thor­ough inves­ti­ga­tion of their capabilities. 

8. Whether the con­trac­tor made efforts to assist inter­est­ed DBE’s in obtain­ing bond­ing, lines of cred­it, or insur­ance required by the recip­i­ent or con­trac­tor; and

9. Whether the con­trac­tor effec­tive­ly used the ser­vices of avail­able minor­i­ty com­mu­ni­ty orga­ni­za­tions; minor­i­ty con­trac­tors’ groups; local and state Fed­er­al Minor­i­ty Busi­ness Assis­tance Offices; and oth­er orga­ni­za­tions that aid in the recruit­ment and place­ment of DBE’s. 

NOTE: The nine items set forth above are mere­ly sug­gest­ed cri­te­ria and the own­er may spec­i­fy that you sub­mit infor­ma­tion on cer­tain oth­er actions a con­trac­tor took to secure DBE par­tic­i­pa­tion in an effort to meet the goals. A con­trac­tor may also sub­mit to the own­er oth­er infor­ma­tion on efforts to meet the goals. 

10. CON­TRAC­TOR ASSUR­ANCE — The bid­der here­by assures that he will meet one of the fol­low­ing as appropriate: 

a. The DBE par­tic­i­pa­tion goal as estab­lished in the Gen­er­al Conditions.

b. The DBE par­tic­i­pa­tion per­cent­age as shown in Sec­tion 9, which was sub­mit­ted as a con­di­tion of con­tract award. 

Agree­ments between bidder/​proposer and a DBE in which the DBE promis­es not to pro­vide sub­con­tract­ing quo­ta­tions to oth­er bidders/​proposers are pro­hib­it­ed. The bid­der shall make a good faith effort to replace a DBE sub­con­tract that is unable to per­form suc­cess­ful­ly with anoth­er DBE sub­con­trac­tor. Sub­sti­tu­tion must be coor­di­nat­ed and approved by the owner. 

The bid­der shall estab­lish and main­tain records and sub­mit reg­u­lar reports, as required, which will iden­ti­fy and assess progress in achiev­ing DBE sub­con­tract goals and oth­er DBE affir­ma­tive action efforts. 

11. PROMPT PAY­MENT — The prime con­trac­tor agrees to pay each sub­con­trac­tor under this prime con­tract for sat­is­fac­to­ry per­for­mance of its con­tract no lat­er than 10 days from the receipt of each pay­ment the prime con­trac­tor receives from the own­er. The prime con­trac­tor agrees fur­ther to return retainage pay­ments to each sub­con­trac­tor with­in 10 days after the sub­con­trac­tor’s work is sat­is­fac­to­ri­ly com­plet­ed. Any delay or post­pone­ment of pay­ment from the above ref­er­enced time frame may occur only for good cause fol­low­ing writ­ten approval of the own­er. This clause applies to both DBE and non-DBE subcontractors. 

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Attach­ment I

SAM­PLE SER­VICES CON­TRACT (See Seper­ate­ly Attached Document)