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LAKE FLORES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT
NOTICE OF REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTING SERVICES

The Lake Flores Community Development District (“District”) is soliciting qualification documents detailing qualifications to provide environmental consulting services, as more particularly described in the Request for Qualifications Package (“RFQ”). To be eligible to submit qualification documents (“Response”), and in addition to any other requirements set forth in the RFQ, an interested firm must: (i) hold all required local, state and federal licenses in good standing; and (ii) be authorized to do business in the Manatee County and the State of Florida.

The RFQ will be available beginning September 18, 2026 at 9:00 A.M. EST by emailing a request to Daphne Gillyard [email protected]. Respondents must provide contact information in order to download the RFQ, and, in that way, will be added to the District’s distribution list for the RFQ and any subsequent addenda thereto. The District reserves the right in its sole discretion to make changes to the RFQ up until the time of the opening, and to provide notice of such changes only to those Respondents who have downloaded a RFQ.

Each firm desiring to submit a response to the RFQ must submit an electronic copy of the firm’s response on a flash drive, and in a PDF format, along with one (1) original unbound copy of the firm’s response, no later than October 2, 2026 at 12:00 PM to the District Manager, Wrathell Hunt & Associates, LLC, 2300 Glades Road, Suite 410W, Boca Raton, Florida 33431, ATTN: Jordan Lansford (the “Submittal Location”). A special public meeting will be conducted on October 7, 2026 at 11:00 a.m., to open the responses and read the names of the Respondents. The meeting is open to the public and will be conducted in accordance with the provisions of Florida law including but not limited to Chapter 190, Florida Statutes. A copy of the agenda for the meeting may be obtained from the District Manager. The meeting may be continued in progress without additional notice to a time, date, and location stated on the record. Pursuant to provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act, any person requiring special accommodations to participate in this meeting is asked to advise the District Manager at (561) 571-0010 at least forty-eight (48) hours before the meeting by contacting the District Manager. If you are hearing or speech impaired, please contact the Florida Relay Service at (800) 955-8770, who can aid you in contacting the District Manager.

Responses will be evaluated in accordance with the criteria included in the RFQ. The District reserves the right to reject any and all responses, make modifications to the work, award the contract in whole or in part with or without cause, provide for the delivery of the Capital Improvement Plan in phases, and waive minor or technical irregularities in any proposal, as it deems appropriate, if it determines in its discretion that it is in the District’s best interests to do so. The District anticipates entering into continuing agreements with no less than one CEI Firm and no more than three CEI Firms.

Proposers are hereby notified that Section 287.05701, Florida Statutes, requires that the District may not request documentation of or consider a Proposer’s social, political, or ideological interests when determining if the Proposer is a responsible vendor.

Any person who wishes to protest the RFQ Package, or any component thereof, shall file with the District a written notice of protest within seventy-two (72) calendar hours (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and state holidays) of the download of the RFQ, and shall file a formal written protest with the District within seven (7) calendar days (including Saturdays, Sundays, and state holidays) after the date of timely filing the initial notice of protest. Any notice of protest must be accompanied by a protest bond in a form acceptable to the District and in the amount of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00). In the event the protest is successful, the protest bond shall be refunded to the protestor. In the event the protest is unsuccessful, the protest bond shall be applied towards the District’s costs, expenses and attorney’s fees associated with hearing and defending the protest. Filing will be perfected and deemed to have occurred upon receipt by the District Manager, Wrathell, Hunt & Associates, LLC, 2300 Glades Road, Suite 410W, Boca Raton, Florida 33431. Failure to timely file a notice of protest or failure to timely file a formal written protest shall constitute a waiver of any right to object to or protest the contents of the District’s RFQ Package or the processes described therein. The formal written protest shall state with particularity the facts and law upon which the protest is based. Additional requirements for filing a protest can be found in the District’s Rules of Procedure, which are available upon request.

Any and all questions relative to this RFQ or the Capital Improvement Plan shall be directed in writing by e-mail only to Jordan Lansford, at [email protected] with e-mail copies to Jonathan Johnson at [email protected]. No phone inquiries please.
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