Tupelo Rail Improvements Program (TRIP)

Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, P O Box 909, Tupelo MS 38802
Account: 3486 Ad ID: 1713302
Description: #1713302 LEGAL NOTICE ADVERTISEMENT
Name: TIFFANY M AY Run Dates: 03/03/26 to 03/10/26
Company: CITY OF TUP EL O Class: 1401
Address: P.O BOX 1485 Orig User: JSH
TUPELO, M S 3 8802 Words: 583
Telephone: (662) 841-6487 Lines: 135
Agate Lines: 132
Other Charges: $5.0 0 Net Cost: $133.26 Notes:
Discount: $0.0 0 Email address: Kim.Hanna@tupeloms.gov
Surcharge: $ 0.00 Paid Amount: - $0.00
Credits: $0.00
Bill Depth: 13. 167 Amount Due: $133.26
#1713302 ditional copy shall be included on a
digital storage device. If correc-
LEGAL NOTICE
tions or erasures are made to the
printed copy, they shall be initialed
ADVERTISEMENT
by the person signing the proposal.
FOR QUALIFICATIONS
No telephone, telegraph, fac-
NOTICE is hereby given that the simile or email proposal will be
Mayor and City Council of the City accepted. Qualifications submit-
of Tupelo, Mississippi (hereinafter ted after 5:00 p.m. on April 2,
"the CITY) will receive Statements 2026 will not be considered. Re-
of Qualifications from interested sponsibility for timely submittal
engineering firms for the purpose lies solely with the submitting firm.
of providing preliminary engineer-
The selection criteria for this
ing services for the Tupelo Rail Im-
award is contained in the full RFQ.
provements Program (TRIP) until
the hour of 5:00 o'clock P.M. local Firms interested in providing
time on April 2, 2026. Responses these services must submit, as a
shall be delivered only in the man- minimum, those matters and, in
ner specified below, on or before the manner, specified by the full
the deadline. Untimely submittals RFQ.
will not be accepted.
This project is being funded in-
Documents, including the full whole or in-part through the Fiscal
Request for Qualifications, Specifi- Year 2022 Rebuilding American In-
cations and Exhibits, may be ob- frastructure with Sustainability and
tained in hard copy or electronic Equity ("RAISE") Grant Program
format by contacting www.Tupelo administered through the United
MSbids.com. States Department of Transporta-
tion and the Federal Railroad Ad-
Any questions should be di-
ministration ("Grant Program").
rected in writing by email to the
The terms and conditions of such
Owner's project managers prior to
Grant Program, and applicable
the deadline established in the RFQ
Agreement are incorporated fully
timeline.
herein by reference and may be
Owner's Project Managers: made as a condition on any con-
City of Tupelo tract(s) awarded because of this
Attn: Dennis Bonds, Request for Qualifications.
City Engineer The City of Tupelo, Mississippi,
Attn: Abby Christian, Pursuant to Title VI of the Civil
Grant Administrator Rights Act of 1964 (78 Stat. 252,
71 East Troy Street, 42 U.S.C. 2000d to 2000d-4)
Tupelo, MS 38804, and the applicable implementing
662-841-6457 regulations, hereby affirms that, in
dennis.bonds@tupeloms.gov connection with any contract en-
abby.christian@tupeloms.gov tered into pursuant to the Agree-
Interested firms submitting hard ment, disadvantaged business
copy responses are required to enterprises will be afforded full and
submit one original and five copies fair opportunity to submit bids in
of their response marked "City of response to any solicitation and
Tupelo Request for Qualifications will not be discriminated against
to Provide Engineering Services for on the grounds of race, color, or
the Tupelo Rail Improvements Pro- national origin in consideration for
gram (TRIP)". Responses submit- an award. This bid solicitation will
ted via www.tupelomsbids.com be submitted to the Agency Bid
shall be in PDF format. Bank at
agencybidbank@mississippi.org.
Mail responses to:
BY ORDER OF THE MAYOR AND
City of Tupelo, Mississippi CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
Attn: Cade Armstrong TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI.
P.O. Box 1485
Tupelo, MS 38802-1485 CITY OF TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI
Hand-deliver responses to: By: /s/ Kim Hanna,
City Clerk/CFO
City of Tupelo, Mississippi
Attn: Cade Armstrong March 3, 10, 2026.
Tax Office
71 East Troy Street
Tupelo, MS 38804
Online submittals:
www.tupelomsbids.com
Qualifications must be clearly
identified with "TRIP Preliminary
Engineering RFQ 2026-019" on the
front of the sealed envelope along
with the firm's name, address,
point of contact, telephone number
and email address. Inside the en-
velope, five (5) copies of the RFQ
response shall be in printed docu-
ment form and at least one (1) ad-
d l h ll b l d d