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 of General Services / Construction
Harrisburg Road Shared Use Path (SUP) – Robinson Church Rd to Ti ... Harrisburg Road Shared Use Path (SUP) – Robinson Church Rd to Timbertop Ln

Charlotte Water / Construction
Belmont Horizontal Directional Drilling Construction
This project will deliver a new lift station and force main to convey wastewater flow from the City of Belmont to Charlotte Water’s (CLTWater) Stowe Regional WWRF via CLTWater’s Paw Creek Pump Station. This project will allow the existing Belmont Wastewater Treatment Plant to be decommissioned and eliminate the need for costly improvements at This facility. Due to separate funding sources, the project will be delivered via Design-Bid-Build delivery method through two phases of Design and three separate construction contracts.

Charlotte Area Transit System / General Services
Integrated Marketing and Communications Agency of Record
Posted Project name: Professional Marketing and Communications-Services
The Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) is seeking the assistance of a full-service marketing and public relations firm or firms that can assist with general marketing, communications, public relations, crisis communications and/or special events. Some of the tasks or projects will require time commitments that cannot be accommodated quickly in-house due to day-to-day responsibilities, limited resources, and other pressing deadlines. Other tasks or projects may require more specialized services, which the in-house team cannot provide.
CATS anticipates that a variety of Marketing & Communications services will be required during the given contract timeframe. Attendance at CATS staff and board meetings, public/stakeholder group meetings, and other planning support services meetings may be required. The Consultant(s) should have experience and be prepared to assist in disciplines to include but not limited to: strategic and targeted marketing, graphic design, website design and/or management, photography, social media, public relations and affairs, crisis
communications, copywriting, script development for radio or television promotional commercials, media placement, branding, printing, and/or special events.
PSR # 1842

Charlotte Area Transit System / General Services
CATS Facilities Air Compressor Repair and Maintenance
Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) anticipates contracting work to cover the necessary service to maintain four air compressors and four air dryers. The scope of work will, at a minimum, include the following: (1) performing basic services to all compressors and air dryers every three months, (2) performing basic services to all compressors and air dryers on an annual basis and (3) performing repairs as needed.
PSR 1803

Department of General Services / Architectural / Engineering Services
RFQ-Consulting Engineering Services – Complete – Please Archive
This Request for Qualifications is to select several firms to provide consulting engineering services on a task order on-call basis.
Generally, the Engineer will provide consulting services that may include planning, design, environmental, and construction administration. In addition, the Engineer may be asked to assist in the development of grant application as well as agreements including federal funding.

Department of General Services / Architectural / Engineering Services
RFQ-Consulting Engineering Services – RFQ is Complete – Pl ... RFQ-Consulting Engineering Services – RFQ is Complete – Please Archive
This Request for Qualifications is to select several firms to provide consulting engineering services on a task order on-call basis.
Generally, the Engineer will provide consulting services that may include planning, design, environmental, and construction administration. In addition, the Engineer may be asked to assist in the development of grant application as well as agreements including federal funding.

Department of General Services / Architectural / Engineering Services
Professional Engineering Services for Transportation Projects – ... Professional Engineering Services for Transportation Projects – Complete – Please Archive
The Engineering Services Division of the Department of General Services (GS) is soliciting Statements of Qualifications (SOQ) from qualified engineering companies (Company) to provide the following three main components for this solicitation and interested parties may choose to be considered for any or all:
• Embedded Consultant Project Management staff: Primary responsibilities include reviewing project deliverables and the overall project management duties as normally performed by city Project Managers. The consultant must certify designs as a North Carolina Professional Engineer or defer this to the project engineer. QA/QC staff should have experience in designing and preparing construction plans for transportation projects and will oversee the work of Project Engineers and/or consultant designers on assigned projects and be directly responsible for ensuring projects are delivered on-schedule and within the allocated budget.
• Embedded Project Engineer staff: Primarily responsible for completing designs for an average of 4-10 projects per year, depending on size and scope. They will be the engineer of record for designs of varying sizes and will report directly to city or consultant Project Management Staff.
• Miscellaneous Planning and Design Services: The City of Charlotte is seeking assistance from qualified Transportation Consulting firms to provide transportation planning and transportation engineering on “on-call” basis. The on-call contract will provide a flexible and effective way for the city to respond to recurring consultant service needs covering a range of multi-dimensional transportation engineering and planning tasks. The flexible on-call consultant service contracts with qualified transportation firms will help meet the needs of the city. Each firm selected for an on-call contract will be required to enter into a master agreement with the city. This master agreement will fulfill the consultant solicitation and selection process for the work to be performed under the on-call contract.

Aviation / General Services
Building Management Systems
CLT is seeking proposals from qualified and experienced companies interested in maintaining existing or providing a Building Management Systems to monitor access control, cameras, HVAC and fire detection at the main Terminal, old Terminal building and at the CLT
Center.

Aviation / General Services
Passenger Satisfaction Survey and Focus Group Services
Charlotte Douglas International Airport is looking for a Company to provide passenger satisfaction surveys and focus groups with passengers.
This is non-federally funded. The Company should provide the following:
Improvements on Harrisburg Rd starting near Robinson Church Road and extending to Timbertop Lane to create a more pedestrian-oriented corridor. Improvements will primarily include shared use path, drainage, curb and gutter, and milling and overlay of asphalt.