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.
If you have questions or need assistance with this portal, contact City Procurement at earlybird@charlottenc.gov.
Charlotte Water / Construction
Franklin Water Treatment Plant Building Renovation-CANCELLED
Charlotte Area Transit System / General Services
CATS Naming Rights RFP
CATS is seeking a vendor that can assist with valuation of its assets and develop/administer a naming rights program that will produce revenue for the system.
PSR # 1284
Charlotte Water / Construction
Field Operations Pipeline Rehabilitation Construction-CANCELLED
This bid package is a collection of projects to increase potable water system reliability and replace aging infrastructure. Work consists of approximately 15,000 linear feet of potable water line construction for 2, 6, 8-inch pipe, and associated repair or replacement of asphalt pavement, concrete sidewalk, curb ramps, curb & gutter, and minor lawn/landscape restoration, primarily within CDOT and NCDOT right-of-way.
Cancelled as of 10/21/2024
Aviation / General Services
On-Call Landscaping Services (Cancel)
Landscaping services for the airport to include but not limited to edge-line clearing, small scale tree trimming, full clearing of wooded areas, heavy equipment for brush mow work, road shoulder clearing with tree removal, slope clearing, soil and seeding work,
Landscape Services are broken into zones. Zones have been advertised.
Charlotte Water / Construction
Briar Creek and Paw Creek Sewer Rehabilitation
This project consists of the sanitary sewer rehabilitation of approximately 13,500 linear feet of sewer outfall with cured-in-place lining. This project will extend along the Briar Creek and Paw Creek outfalls. A 112 linear feet 24-inch diversion sewer will also be constructed under Briar Creek along with a 118 linear feet 8-inch linear feet collector sewer.
Department of General Services / General Services
Light Vehicle Repairs
The City is seeking qualified vendors to provide automotive repair services for city-owned vehicles. Vehicle types include cars, vans, pickup trucks, and medium-duty trucks. The City fleet includes vehicles from the following manufacturers:
One or more contracts will be awarded from this solicitation for an initial term of three years with the option to renew for two additional one-year terms.
City Wide / General Services
Elevator Maintenance and Repair Services
The selected Company will maintain elevator units using trained personnel. The maintenance will include inspection, lubrication, adjustment, and if conditions or usage warrant, repair or replacement of the following parts:
(a) Controller parts, selectors and dispatching equipment, relays, solid-state components, transducers, resistors, condensers, power amplifiers, transformers, contracts, leads, dashpots, timing devices, computer and microcomputer devices, steel selector tapes, mechanical and electrical driving equipment, signal lamps, and position indicating equipment.
(b) Door operators, car door hangers, car door contacts, door protective devices, load weighing equipment, car frames, car safety mechanisms, platforms, car and counterweight guide shoes including rollers and gibs, and emergency car lighting.
(c) Hoistway door interlocks and hangers, bottom door guides, and auxiliary door closing devices.
(d) Machines, worms, gears, thrust bearings, drive sheaves, drive sheave shaft bearings, brake pulleys, brake coils, contacts, linings, and component parts.
(e) Motors, motor generators, motor windings, rotating elements, commutators, brushes, brush holders, and bearings.
(f) Governor Components, governor sheaves and shaft assemblies, bearings, contacts, governor jaws, deflector or secondary sheaves, car and counterweight buffers, car and counterweight guide rails, car and counterweight sheave assemblies, top and bottom limit switches, governor tension sheave assemblies, and compensating sheave assemblies.
(g) Pumps, pump motors, operating valves, valve motors, leveling valves, plunger packings, exposed piping, above ground plungers and cylinders, and hydraulic fluid tanks.
(h) Escalator handrails, handrail drive chains, handrail brush guards, handrail guide rollers, alignment devices, steps, step treads, step wheels, step chains, step axle bushings, comb plates, floor plates, tracks, external gearing, and drive chains.
(i) Escalator upper drives, upper drive bearings, tension sprocket bearings, upper newel bearings, demarcation lights, and comb lights.
In addition, the Company may be asked to replace all wire ropes or coated steel belts as often as necessary to maintain an appropriate level of safety. This may also include equalizing the tension on hoisting ropes, resocketing ropes for drum machines, and repairing or replacing conductor cables, hoistway, and machine-room elevator wiring.
The selected Company will provide the City with 24-hour, year-round services to ensure that all emergency needs are immediately met.
Housing & Neighborhood Services / Technology Goods & Services
Code Enforcement Online Customer Payment Portal – CANCELLED
Today customers must either mail in payment (check/money order/certified funds) or physically come to the Charlotte Mecklenburg Government Center (CMGC) to pay their Code Enforcement violation invoices. For this opportunity, we are soliciting vendors for proposals to automate this process so that payments can be made by Credit Card, Debit Card, or Tele-Check from a web browser with a secure internet connection.
Charlotte Storm Water Services / Architectural / Engineering Services
Various Storm Water Services Projects
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Storm Water Services is requesting proposals from qualified companies interested in providing Professional Engineering Services for Various Storm Water Services Projects. The selected firms will use HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS, SWMM, and/or a hydraulic grade line closed system computer model, or an approved alternative method. All methods will be in accordance with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Storm Water Design Manual. The City’s then current AutoCAD standards will be used for production of all plans and profiles. The selected company(ies) may be required to pursue stream restoration and enhancement for mitigation credit in accordance with NCDEQ and USACE requirements, where appropriate.
The proposed project will fund renovation of Franklin Water Treatment Plant Main Building. It provides 85% of the potable water produced and is need of major renovations such as HVAC, plumbing, process lab, building offices and parts storage for water treatment. Major architectural renovations such as curtainwall and windows are included. Rearrangement of space for laboratories, parts storage, office space, and records storage.
Cancelled as of 11/7/2024