/ Opportunities
Welcome to EarlyBird, the City of Charlotte Business Opportunities Pipeline! This site is a comprehensive listing of Active and In Development contracting opportunities across all City of Charlotte departments. Projects can be searched using keywords, by commodity code, or using a variety of filters to narrow down opportunities your business may be interested in participating in. Click on the orange Requirements button on the Opportunity to see additional details about the project and specific requirements that may be helpful in preparing to participate in an upcoming solicitation. You can also “follow” a project using various social media channels to get notifications when the requirements are updated, or once the project moves from “In Development” to “Active” status.
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Department
- Aviation
- Charlotte Area Transit System
- Charlotte Communications & Marketing
- Charlotte Department of Transportation
- Charlotte Fire Department
- Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department
- Charlotte Planning, Design & Development
- Charlotte Storm Water Services
- Charlotte Water
- City Attorney’s Office
- City Clerk
- City Manager's Office
- City Wide
- Community Relations
- Department of General Services
- Economic Development
- Finance
- Housing & Neighborhood Services
- Human Resources
- Innovation & Technology
- Internal Audit
- Solid Waste Services
- Strategy & Budget
Solicitation Category
- Architectural / Engineering Services
- Commodities & Goods
- Construction
- Construction Cost Estimating
- General Services
- Technology Goods & Services
Expected Release Year
- 2019
- 2020
- 2021
- 2022
Expected Release Date
- Q1 (Jan-Mar)
- Q2 (Apr-Jun)
- Q3 (Jul-Sep)
- Q4 (Oct-Dec)
Estimated Total Value
- $10,000 - 49,999
- $50,000 - 99,999
- $100,000 - 249,999
- $250,000 - 499,999
- $500,000 - 999,999
- $1,000,000 -4,999,999
- $5,000,000 - 9,999,999
- $10,000,000+
In Development
Charlotte Storm Water Services / Construction
Dry Detention Water Quality Enhancement Project
In Development
Charlotte Storm Water Services / Construction
Ideal Way 816 Storm Drain Improvement Project
- Posting Number: 2024-Q4(Oct-Dec)-CSWS-7060
- Anticipated Posting Date: 2024-12-17
- Last Updated: 10/23/24
The purpose and need for this construction project is to improve the storm drainage infrastructure (i.e. pipe systems and culverts) to reduce flooding and to enhance degraded stream reaches to reduce erosion and improve water quality. This project is under review. Location and project details will be provided after the review is complete.
In Development
Charlotte Water / Commodities & Goods
Water Treatment Polymer Trials
- Posting Number: 2025-Q1(Jan-Mar)-CW-15475
- Anticipated Posting Date: 2025-01-09
- Last Updated: 10/22/24
The scope of this Invitation to Bid (ITB) is to establish a contract for the purchase, delivery, and other inherently related activities of liquid emulsion polymer for solids dewatering for Charlotte Water’s Franklin WTP in compliance with the specifications and terms and conditions set forth in this ITB.
Polymer Trials will take place prior to receiving bids for the polymer. All Products and parts furnished under the Contract shall be new, shall comply with the specifications and terms and conditions set forth in this ITB, and shall operate in full compliance with the Specifications.
In Development
Aviation / General Services
Integrated Pest Management Services
- Posting Number: 2025-Q3(Jul-Sep)-AVI-15207
- Anticipated Posting Date: 2025-07-01
- Last Updated: 10/22/24
The Airport is seeking a qualified company to provide Integrated Pest Management (IPM) services. The company must supply all necessary supervision, labor, materials, tools, supplies, equipment, transportation, and applicable licenses and permits required to perform these services at CLT. CLT’s IPM program is defined as a comprehensive approach to preventing and solving pest issues through education, inspection, identification, sanitation, exclusion, communication, biological and mechanical controls, and, when appropriate, targeted applications. IPM services must be conducted in a way that ensures the health and well-being of both the public and airport personnel. The company is also responsible for removing and disposing of all dead pests covered under this contract. The job site includes approximately 2 million square feet of interior facilities, multiple on-property buildings, CLT buses, and parking lots.
In Development
Charlotte Area Transit System / General Services
CATS Facilities Unit Paving and Repair
- Posting Number: 2024-Q4(Oct-Dec)-CATS-16172
- Anticipated Posting Date: 2024-12-10
- Last Updated: 10/21/24
Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) is looking to contract out unit paving and repair services focusing on the following:
- Clay brick pavers along sidewalks within public right of ways
- Precast concrete pavers at Light Rail Station as shown on the plans, as well
as at CATS Bus Stops and Facilities - Precast truncated dome pavers at all accessible ramp areas as indicated by
CATS Management. - Replacement units where needed and as indicated by CATS
Management
PSR # 1782
In Development
Charlotte Department of Transportation / Technology Goods & Services
Big Data Transportation Services
- Posting Number: 2025-Q1(Jan-Mar)-CDT-16233
- Anticipated Posting Date: 2025-01-01
- Last Updated: 10/21/24
Cloud-based current and historical transportation data with an interactive dashboard for the three-county CRTPO region. It should include at minimum origin-destination flow data, trip characteristics and metrics, speed and travel time data, congestion data, and traffic volumes, and it should provide this data by time of day and for personal vehicles, commercial trucks, transit, and non-motorized modes.
CRTPO: Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning Organization
In Development
Aviation / Construction
Concourse A Modifications
- Posting Number: 2025-Q1(Jan-Mar)-AVI-16193
- Anticipated Posting Date: 2025-02-25
- Last Updated: 10/18/24
This Project aims to modify and relocate existing equipment, replace tables, add an experiential element, and extend tenant services at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport. The modifications of the existing equipment will accommodate a dual-use system at each Gate Counter including the electrical and data infrastructure leading up to the network. There will be a Flight Information Display System” that will need to be relocated in the connecting corridor which includes structural attachments to the building and repairs to the existing Terrazzo. Work hours between 2300 – 0500 EST to prevent disruption to Airport Operations. This project will require 100% badging for all workers. |
In Development
Aviation / Construction
Concourse E – Phase 10
- Posting Number: 2025-Q1(Jan-Mar)-AVI-16195
- Anticipated Posting Date: 2025-02-25
- Last Updated: 10/17/24
Add a small addition onto concourse E of approximately 4,350-7,150sf for offices. Base bid will be a 4,350sf addition with 2ea add alternates to add a 1,400sf bay/ea alternate for a potential maximum of 7,150sf. This area to be shell space, divided into 2 separate tenant spaces. Divider wall will be designed and installed to separate the two separate tenant spaces. Location of proposed addition is on the west side of concourse E between the employee turnstile and aircraft envelope E4.
In Development
Department of General Services / Construction
LaSalle Street/Beatties Ford Road Intersection Improvements
- Posting Number: 2025-Q1(Jan-Mar)-DGS-14208
- Anticipated Posting Date: 2025-01-01
- Last Updated: 10/17/24
Install decorative crosswalks (interconnected preformed thermoplastic), milling and resurfacing, and pavement markings.
This project includes constructing forebays to increase pretreatment of solids and create sheet flow through the basin, removing and replacing of existing turf grass in the bottom of the basins with a hardier herbaceous vegetative mix that provides more treatment, and modification of outlet structures of basins that increase retention time within the basins to increase pollutant removal.