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CITY OF CLEMSON
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS
RFQ NO. 2026-018
SEALED QUALIFICATIONS will be accepted by the City of Clemson Procurement Division
until 2:00 p.m. ET, July 14, 2026. All qualified firms are invited to submit qualifications to the
City of Clemson for the following:
Design-Build Services for Sludge Thickening System
at Cochran Road Treatment Plant
SOLICITATION ISSUE DATE: June 10, 2026
PRE-BID MEETING:
Mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting
6/25/2026 at 10:00 a.m. EST
Cochran Rd. Treatment Plant
300 Cochran Rd., Clemson, SC 29631
QUESTION DEADLINE:
July 7, 2026, 2:00 p.m. ET
SUBMITTAL DEADLINE:
July 14, 2026, 2:00 p.m. ET
RFQ OPENING:
City of Clemson City Hall
(Engineering) Conference Room
1250 Tiger Boulevard, Suite 5
Clemson, SC 29631
CONTACT:
bids@cityofclemson.org
Any revisions to this Request for Qualifications will be issued and distributed as an addendum.
All addenda, additional communications, responses to questions, etc. pertaining to the RFQ will
be posted on the City of Clemson website at: https://www.clemsoncity.org/bids.aspx. All offerors
should consult this website for updates before submitting statements of qualifications
(SOQs).
DEADLINE ENFORCED
SOQs received after the time and date set for receipt of qualifications WILL NOT be
accepted. It is the offeror’s responsibility to ensure timely delivery of their
qualifications. Telephone, email, or facsimile qualifications will not be accepted.
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From time to time, the Procurement Division may have to release written changes to a solicitation
due to an inadvertent error or omission on the part of the City or to an inquiry from an interested
vendor during the question phase of the solicitation. No changes to the published terms and
conditions, scope of work, minimum requirements, or insurance and bonding requirements will be
considered unless they are submitted in compliance with the deadline for the questions or
clarification phase of the solicitation. Any changes to the published terms and conditions, scope of
work, minimum requirements, or insurance and bonding requirements will be published in a
formal, written addendum. The City is not obligated to make any changes to the published
solicitation based on an inquiry from a vendor. The City will not consider “red-line” amendments
to any contract with the successful bidder, as all requests for changes must be posed in the question
phase and accepted in a formal addendum. The City reserves the right to negotiate with the
successful bidder in order to comply with budgetary allocations.
Any offer submitted as a result of this solicitation shall be binding on the offeror for NINETY
(90) CALENDAR DAYS FOLLOWING THE SPECIFIED OPENING DATE. Any
qualifications for which the offeror specifies a shorter acceptance period may be rejected.
During the performance of the contract, the contractor shall comply with any and all applicable
federal, state, or local laws, rules, and regulations relating to a drug-free workplace.
If the offeror discovers any ambiguity, conflict, discrepancy, omission or other errors in the RFQ,
offeror shall immediately notify the City of such error in writing and request modification or
clarification of the document. The offeror is responsible for clarifying any ambiguity, conflict,
discrepancy, omission, or other error in the RFQ, or it shall be deemed waived.
Proprietary and/or Confidential Information
Your statement of qualifications is a public document under the South Carolina Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA), except as to information that may be exempt from disclosure under the
FOIA in the City’s sole discretion. If you cannot agree to this standard, please do not submit your
SOQ.
All information that you desire to be treated as confidential and/or proprietary must be CLEARLY
AND SPECIFICALLY identified, and each page containing confidential and/or proprietary
information, in whole or in part, must be stamped and/or denoted as CONFIDENTIAL, in bold,
in a font of at least 12-point type, in the upper right-hand corner of the page. All information, even
information so noted and identified, may be disclosed by the City. Blanket-type identification by
designating whole pages or sections as containing confidential and/or proprietary information will
not be considered by the City.
This Request for Qualifications is being issued by the City of Clemson Procurement Division.
Direct all questions or requests for clarification of this RFQ in writing to the e-mail address shown
on page one (1) of this invitation.
Current E-mail Address Required
All qualifications submitted shall include a current e-mail address. Once selected, Notice of Intent
to Award shall be posted on the City’s website; and Notice of Intent to Award, and notices of non-
award, shall be sent to all offerors via e-mail. No hard copy notices will be sent via regular mail.
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Offerors are specifically directed not to contact any other City personnel for meetings, conferences,
or technical discussions related to this request unless otherwise stated in this RFQ. Failure to
adhere to this policy may be grounds for rejection of your qualifications.
Required Affidavits
Firms submitting SOQs are required to include all affidavits found at the end of this Request for
Qualifications. If any of the affidavits are not applicable, N/A is an acceptable response.
The words “Bidder”, “Offeror”, “Proposer”, “Vendor”, and “Contractor” are used
interchangeably throughout this RFQ, and are used in place of the person, firm, or
corporation submitting qualifications.
Dated at Clemson, South Carolina as of ____0_6_/_1_0_/_2_6____.
BY:
Jordan Monroe – Procurement Coordinator
City of Clemson, SC
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