CATS BUS STOP IMPROVEMENTS: AMENITY ASSEMBLY AND INSTALLATION

The Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS), a department of the City of Charlotte, is seeking proposals from qualified, experienced, and properly licensed contractor to provide systemwide bus stop amenities installation services in support of CATS' multi-phase capital program for bus stop improvements.

The selected Company(s) will provide the labor, supervision, equipment, tools, materials, transportation, traffic control, site protection, permitting support, coordination, and other services necessary to assemble, deliver, install, modify, repair, and/or replace bus stop amenities at locations throughout the CATS bus service network.

The program is intended to improve the safety, accessibility, functionality, appearance, and overall customer experience of CATS bus stops. Work may include improvements at existing bus stops as well as new or relocated stops associated with service expansion, development, transit projects, and capital improvements.

Bus stop improvement locations may be located within the City of Charlotte and throughout Mecklenburg County, including municipalities and jurisdictions served by CATS, such as:

• City of Charlotte
• Mecklenburg County
• Town of Pineville
• Town of Davidson
• Town of Huntersville
• Town of Cornelius
• Town of Matthews
• Town of Mint Hill
• Other municipalities, unincorporated areas, jurisdictions, or service areas where CATS provides or subsequently provides bus service

The geographic limits of individual work assignments will be determined by CATS based on the location of existing and proposed CATS bus stops and the availability of funding.

CATS anticipates that work will be issued in multiple phases and through individual task orders over the contract term. The Company must therefore demonstrate the ability to manage multiple concurrent bus stop improvement locations across a geographically dispersed service area.

The City of Charlotte is using the e-Procurement Portal ("Procurement Portal" - https://charlottenc.bonfirehub.com) to accept and evaluate proposals for this RFP. Proposals must be submitted electronically through the Procurement Portal on or before the Due Date in order to be accepted.

Each company shall have 3 or more years of recent and relevant experience comparable in size, quantity, and type of installation services as specified in this solicitation's scope of work.

Each company will have ten calendar days to submit a complete certificate of insurance in the minimum amounts and the coverage as required in the Insurance Requirements of this solicitation.

In the event the Council approval is not received within one hundred eighty (180) calendar days after opening of the Proposals, the Company may request that it be released from the Proposal.