Notice of Bid/Request for Proposal
The Transportation Division of the West Florida Regional Planning Council, designated staff to the Florida-Alabama, Okaloosa-Walton, and Bay County Transportation Planning Organizations (TPO), is seeking the services of two (2) qualified transportation planning consultants to act as the General Planning Consultant (GPC) for the TPOs. The selected firms will become the GPC for the three TPOs. The GPC will be expected to work on multiple transportation planning tasks identified in the TPOs’ Unified Planning Work Programs, and on various regional planning tasks. Qualified consultants shall be pre-qualified by the Florida Department of Transportation in Multi-Modal Systems Transportation Planning. The consultant and all sub-consultants shall include Forms 254 and 255 with the Letters of Interest/Statements of Qualifications. The TPOs reserve the right to reject any and all letters.
The full RFP for General Planning Consultant is available for download from the WFRPC website at: www.wfrpc.org. In addition, the RFP can be obtained by calling or writing the contact person listed below.
Consultants shall submit one original and twelve (12) copies of the Letter of Interest/Statement of Qualifications. Letters shall be no more than six (6) pages, exclusive of the covers, and address the following:
1. Name of firm, address, phone and fax numbers, responsible office for the project, location of
corporate office, name of the Project Manager and contact information for the Project Manager.
2. Key personnel, by title and experience, to be assigned to this project (resumes not included at this
time).
3. Subconsultants participating on a team.
4. Indicate if the prime consultant and/or subconsultants are a state-certified DBE.
(Obtain and follow instructions in the full RFP)
Letters shall be received by the West Florida Regional Planning Council no later than Friday, December 14, 2007, at 4:00 p.m. (Central Time), and shall be sent to:
ATTN: Michael W. Zeigler, Director of Transportation Planning
(850)332-7976, ext. 203
Mike.Zeigler@wfrpc.org
Between the dates of November 12 and November 26, communications shall be sent to Ms. Mary Robinson, (same address), (850)332-7976, ext. 229, Mary.Robinson@wfrpc.org.