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RFQ - Rosewood-Lynnwood RFQ for Rosewood-Lynnwood pdf

Issuing Agency

City of Tuscaloosa

Location

Alabama

Published Date

Nov 17, 2025

Closing Date

Dec 12, 2025

Government Level

State & Local

Status

Closed

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Project Description

Name	End Date	Issued By
RFQ - Rosewood-Lynnwood RFQ for Rosewood-Lynnwood pdf	December 12, 2025, 5:00 PM	Office of the City Engineer

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CITY OF TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA

REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS

FOR PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING & RELATED SERVICES

FOR ROSEWOOD-LYNNWOOD DRAINAGE PROJECT

OCA File Number: OCA-25-1648

Engineering Project: OCE 2026.004.001

Issued by:

City of Tuscaloosa

Office of the City Engineer

Date Issued: 11/17/2025

Deadline for Submittals: 12/12/2025

LATE SUBMISSIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED

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PART 1 – OVERVIEW

The City of Tuscaloosa is requesting qualifications from firms for Professional Engineering and Related

Services for the Rosewood-Lynnwood Drainage Project. Part 2 of this RFQ provides a general

description and abbreviated scope of work for the project.

This is a procurement of professional services and will be conducted in a manner to provide full and

open competition. A Selection Committee will review all submittals and will rank firms based on

criteria identified in Part 5. The criteria may include, but is not limited to: Licensing and Professional

Standing; Experience; Conflicts of Interest; Project Understanding and Approach; and Quality

Assurance and Quality Control.

Upon selection by the Selection Committee, the City will enter into negotiations with the successful

Respondent firm. Pending successful negotiations, the successful Respondent firm will enter into a

Contract for professional services with the City.

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PART 2 – THE PROJECT AND SCOPE OF WORK

The City of Tuscaloosa seeks the services of a professional firm that has the knowledge, experience

and expertise to perform the services as requested.

The firm must be able to perform the following types of services upon request from the City:

Provide Professional Engineering and Related Services for the Rosewood-Lynnwood Drainage Project.

Qualified applicants should be able to address issues with drainage ditch erosion, and the resolution

of sedimentation issues caused by eroding drainage ditches, and reduction of associated annual

clean-up operations.

The firm must comply with all applicable state, local, and federal regulations related to the services

provided to the City, including all acts, rules, regulations, guidelines and circulars promulgated by

various federal departments, agencies, administrations and commissions relating to the funding

source used to pay all or part of projects costs including professional engineering and related services.

The City reserves the right, subject to negotiation and agreement, in writing, with the selected firm,

to either expand or limit the scope of services as needed. The selected firm will be required to have

sufficient personnel to complete the tasks required by this scope of services. The selected firm will

complete the required tasks in a timely and efficient manner. The selected firm would be expected

to enter into a contract for services based upon the negotiated fee structure.

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PART 3 – CONTENT OF RESPONSE TO THIS REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS

In order to facilitate the Selection Committee’s evaluation, each Respondent firm responding to this

request for qualifications should include the following content, in the following order:

 Licensing and Professional Standing

 Experience

 Conflicts of Interest

 Project Understanding and Approach

 Quality Assurance and Quality Control

Each of these items is discussed in more detail in the following sections.

3.1 Licensing and Professional Standing

a. Please include a brief statement confirming that the Respondent is legally authorized to do

business in Alabama and in the City of Tuscaloosa, and that all staff assigned to perform services for

the project are licensed or certified to perform such services in Alabama.

b. In addition, please include a statement confirming that the Respondent is not presently debarred,

suspended, proposed for debarment, declared ineligible, or voluntarily excluded from participation

by any state or federal department or agency.

c. Finally, for the five year period preceding submission of the response for this RFP the Respondent

shall please identify:

(1) All contracts terminated (in whole or in part) to which the Respondent firm was a party-

for convenience or default, by either the Respondent firm or by another party to the contract with

the Respondent, including:

 contract value

 description of work

 project owner and contract number and/or name and telephone number for a representative

of the project owner

(2) All claims made against the Respondent arising out of the Respondent’s professional

services; and

(3) All litigation (including any arbitration or mediation proceedings) to which the Respondent

has been a party.1 If no contracts have been terminated, or if the Respondent has not been a party

to any claims or litigation, please include a statement to that effect.

1 The disclosure of terminated contracts, claims, or litigation will not automatically disqualify a Respondent from

consideration. The Selection Committee will review any matter disclosed and make an independent determination

as to whether the matter should disqualify the Respondent from consideration.

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3.2 Experience

a. Please provide a brief narrative about the Respondent’s experience, history, ownership and

primary clients served by the firm.

b. List of the Respondent’s proposed project team and those team members’ qualifications and

experience.

c. Recently Completed Projects. Evidence of satisfactory performance of at least three (3) recently

completed projects of the type indicated above. Relevant experience will be judged on the basis of

the design experience of those individuals named to the firm’s project team for this project. Elements

of recently completed projects are as follows:

1. Address.

2. Contact person for reference.

3. Construction cost.

3.3 Conflicts of Interest

Please identify all actual or potential conflicts of interest that would prevent the Respondent from

entering into a professional relationship with the City generally, or for this project specifically. If no

such conflicts exist, please include a statement to that effect.

3.4 Project Understanding and Approach

Discuss the proposed approach to completing the needed services and how your firm will coordinate

the development of design solutions, the production of contract documents, and construction

administration.

3.4 Quality Assurance and Quality Control

a. The submittal should describe how the responding Respondent will provide quality assurance

(“QA”) and quality control (“QC”) for the project. Identify the individuals that will be involved in

QA/QC services. If your firm has a structured QA/QC program, briefly describe the program and how

it will be applied to the project.

b. Respondent shall discuss the firm’s approach/method of designing to budget.

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