The North Central Texas Council of Governments ("NCTCOG") seeks an experienced vendor or vendors to provide the goods or services described herein to the members of its TXShare Cooperative Purchasing Program ("TXShare"). The awarded contracts will be promoted via TXShare. The purpose of this Request for Proposals is to solicit responses that result in a contract with one or more vendor(s) that are qualified to provide one or more categories of the goods or services. The desired service categories are as listed below: Service Category #1: Emergency Call Out Repair Services Service Category #2: Non-Emergency Scheduled Call Out Repair Services Service Category #3: Other Ancillary Services Proposing firms shall provide services to: Provide all materials, equipment, and labor to conduct emergency repairs of wastewater or drinking water supply lines and/or ancillary fixtures that are deemed emergency in nature by the Customer. Provide all materials, equipment, and labor for non-emergency general repairs of wastewater or drinking water supply lines and/or ancillary fixtures that are deemed not to be emergency in nature by the Customer. Customer may choose to provide repair parts when negotiating repair orders. In your proposal narrative, please explain which of the categories your firm can provide. Question Deadline 10/02/2024 at 5:00 PM CT Questions arising subsequent to the issuance of this solicitation will be received and must be submitted electronically. Questions received after this time may not be answered in sufficient time to benefit the vendor in preparing a proposal. General questions about the process may be answered directly to the inquirer. Addenda to this solicitation will be made available to vendors of record by posting the addenda online. Planned Contract Award November 2024 It is your responsibility to ensure that the proposals are properly uploaded as described above by the designated due date and time. NCTCOG assumes no responsibility for delays caused by any reason. Online Bid opening: Meeting ID: 292 233 284 729 Passcode: SZs6nx Dial in by phone +1 903-508-4574 Phone conference ID: 829 916 891# The public opening for this RFP will be conducted. The opening meeting will be held virtually via Microsoft Teams and will be recorded. Please note that a large volume of proposals may result in a lengthy opening process. Meeting access information and the Teams meeting invite will be posted to Public Purchase prior to the date of the public opening. Only the names of the Offerors submitting a proposal will be read aloud. No other information will be disclosed at the time of opening. Proposal information is restricted and not publicly available until after award of a contract. All documents associated with the proposal submitted, unless the Offeror indicates a portion of the proposal is proprietary, may be subject to public inspection in accordance with the Texas Public Information Act. Any part of the proposal that you desire to declare as confidential information must be noted as such where the information is found in the proposal. Claims of confidentiality are subject to the opinion of the Texas Office of the Attorney General, should NCTCOG receive an open records request. All information obtained during this solicitation will become property of NCTCOG. A contract resulting from this RFP shall be for a period up to twenty-four (24) months commencing on the Effective Date. The contract will be subject to renewal for up to three (3) additional years, not to exceed five (5) years in total, unless earlier terminated as provided herein. NCTCOG reserves the right not to renew it at its discretion. Award NCTCOG reserves the right to award by line item, in whole, or in any combination as it deems to be in the best interest of the TXShare cooperative. Award may be made to one or more vendors. Customers further reserve the right to select the Contractor(s) that provides the best value for its material needs. NCTCOG reserves the right to select the proposal or proposals offering the most advantageous combination, with price and other evaluation criteria considered. Respondent should furnish pricing related to each item on which Respondent wishes to propose, and either leave the questions for other items unanswered (blank) or indicate "No Bid." The NCTCOG will consider items individually and make awards on each item independently