The City of Charlotte (“City”) Office of Sustainability and Resilience (OSR) is seeking professional consulting services to update the SEAP five years after adoption to better reflect current trends in Charlotte, updates in available technology, and update science-based targets. The updated plan will need to review its ambitious GHG reduction goals for 2030 and 2050, offering potential revisions, benchmarks, and strategies throughout this work to ensure success. GHG reduction goals are:
- Fuel fleet and facilities by 100% zero-carbon sources by 2030,
- City of Charlotte will be a low-carbon city by 2050.
The City of Charlotte prepares and adopts an annual Central Services Cost Allocation Plan (CAP) to equitably divide the cost for all support departments, including overhead, as well as other designated City costs. A RFP will be issued to select a consulting Partner to create a new CAP model.
Charlotte Douglas International Airport is soliciting proposals from qualified (professionally licensed) Electrical Engineering Consultants who have the knowledge, experience, and capability to complete an arc flash and shock hazard evaluation, calculations, and labeling for all facilities to support the safe operation and maintenance of electrical infrastructure and comply with applicable regulations and industry practices. Time is of the essence. The consultant shall ensure available resources, as necessary, to facilitate work in a timely fashion. The evaluation, calculations, and labeling are to be performed in compliance with the latest codes and standards associated with electrical safety and arc flash standards including those set forth by IEEE 1584, NFPA 70E, & NFPA 70.
Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) Art in Transit is inviting qualified conservators to submit proposals to evaluate and restore a sculpture by the late artist, Dennis Oppenheim. The mixed media sculpture was installed at the Tyvola Station on the LYNX Blue Line Light Rail in 2007.
The purpose of this Request for Proposal (RFP) is to identify a qualified conservation professional and select the candidate with expertise needed to restore the sculpture to the artist’s original intent.
CATS is a department of the City of Charlotte, who owns and operates the City’s public transportation modes including light rail, streetcar, and bus transit. Art in Transit (AiT) is a program within CATS that is dedicated to the integration of public art within CATS’ capital projects. Art in Transit is responsible for coordination and oversight of the installation as well as
the care and maintenance of the CATS Public Art collection.
PSR # 1599
CATS is seeking a contractor to perform a comprehensive evaluation of all positions within the CATS pay structure of the organization. The study objectives are as follows:
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- Ensure positions with similar nature and complexity of work are appropriately classified within the proposed base pay hierarchy.
- Provide salary recommendations that align with position responsibilities.
- Provide career pathway recommendations that provide opportunities for compensation growth.
- Provide pay differentials between classifications that are justifiable.
- Maintain a competitive position with the external market while recognizing internal job worth hierarchies.
– Classification Alignment: Ensure that all positions with similar job nature and complexity are correctly categorized within the proposed base pay hierarchy.
– Salary Alignment: Offer salary recommendations that are in line with the respective responsibilities of each position.
– Career Progression: Recommend career pathways that facilitate opportunities for compensation growth for our employees.
– Justifiable Pay Differentials: Establish pay differentials between job classifications that are well-founded and reasonable.
– Market Competitiveness: Maintain our competitive standing in the external job market while simultaneously acknowledging the internal hierarchy of job worth within our organization.
By engaging a qualified contractor to carry out this evaluation, CATS aims to optimize our compensation practices, ensuring fairness, competitiveness, and alignment with industry standards and internal structures.
The CATS Project Manager will furnish the Contractor with all necessary documentation, including pay ranges, job classifications, and any other pertinent information essential for the completion of the study.
PSR # 1595
The Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) is inviting proposals from qualified firm(s) to partner with CATS for the development and implementation of a new micro-transit service. The goal of micro-transit is to enhance CATS’ existing bus, light rail, and streetcar services. Micro-transit is also part of CATS’
larger goal of building a more reliable, connected, and accessible transit network for the greater Charlotte area.
PSR # 1566
The Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) as a department of the City of Charlotte (City) plans to hire multiple professional consultant teams to provide professional services related to transit vehicles and maintenance; facility assessments and design; transit safety, training, and security planning; and transit technology support for related CATS projects. Project teams can propose on all or just one of the general technical services being requested. The various services shall be requested on an as needed basis using a negotiated work order process. The City is seeking firms whose combination of experience and personnel will provide timely, cost effective and quality professional services to the City.
PSR # 1575
Scope of Work
The selected partner will design and implement an accelerator program with multiple cohorts each year during the two-year period. The accelerator will assist entrepreneurs through modalities such as coaching, mentor meetings, networking events, pitch practice, and others to support them through funding or other significant milestones. The scope of the project includes but is not limited to:
- Designing and launching a program of acceleration and/or pre-acceleration for startups
- Build key community partnerships to ensure buy-in and collaboration with the ecosystem
- Achieve engagement with underserved founder communities (ethnic minority and women)
- Conduct outreach in the community to recruit applicants and necessary partners
- Create connectivity between the Charlotte entrepreneurial community and capital sources
- Build measurements and metrics to show impact and success of the program over time
- Assist in messaging to build support for the program after the two-year project period
Prepare program participants for fundraising and achieving milestones post-graduation
