Jasper-24-RFQ-2024-004

The City of Jasper, GA is soliciting Requests for Qualifications (RFQ) from respondents capable of entering into a ¿partnership¿ agreement to provide operation, maintenance, and management services for the City's water and sewer treatment facilities. The City is interested in maximizing benefits for its customers from this effort and views the intended relationship as a partnering venture in which issues are quickly and fairly resolved to the mutual benefit of the City, its ratepayers, and the successful respondent. The City and the successful respondent may enter into a mutually binding operation, maintenance, and management agreement addressing the topics contained in this document. The City also reserves the right to expand the scope of services to include additional responsibilities.
The City of Jasper expects to select the highest scoring respondent based on a structured point scoring evaluation. The scoring evaluation will consider each respondent's ability to perform the required services, experience and technical expertise, corporate and technical resources that will support on-site staff, and the respondent¿s ability to implement innovative project delivery approaches. The City will begin negotiations with the highest scoring respondent. Should the negotiations fail to result in an executed agreement, the City may elect to terminate negotiations with the first-ranked respondent and begin negotiations with the second-ranked respondent, and so on, or cancel the entire RFQ process.
The purpose of this partnership is to operate, maintain, and manage the City's water and sewer treatment assets cost effectively and efficiently. Other core objectives are to operate in compliance, improve maintenance, and implement solutions to lower the capital and operating costs of any and all aspects of operations, and continue local purchases of supplies, consumables, and services; wherever practical.
The full RFQ may be downloaded from the City¿s website.