Continuing Professional Stormwater and Drainage Engineering Services

City of Cape Coral, FL - Public Works has issued request for proposal, solicitation 2026-RFP-PW-054-KR.

The City of Cape Coral was incorporated in 1970 and operates under the Council/City Manager form of government. The City Council has eight members consisting of the mayor and seven members all elected at large on a nonpartisan basis. City Council is responsible for all policy-making functions of the government and retains the services of a City Attorney, City Auditor and City Manager. The City Manager is responsible for all administration of the City, which provides a comprehensive range of municipal services including general government, public safety, community services, public works, planning, utilities, and parks and recreation. Cape Coral is the 8th largest city by population and the 3rd largest by land mass in Florida. Cape Coral currently has a population of more than 200,000 residents and is experiencing high growth. As a pre-platted community, Cape Coral could have more than 360,000 residents at buildout. The city has a sub-tropical lifestyle with thousands of waterfront residential properties on almost 400 miles of canals. About two-thirds of these canals provide boaters with direct access to the Gulf of Mexico.

The City of Cape Coral is initiating a Request for Qualifications process to solicit qualifications from professional engineering firms to provide stormwater, drainage, and flood mitigation engineering services

Responses are due September 30, 2026 at 2:00 PM EDT.

Questions must be submitted by September 15, 2026 at 2:00 PM EDT.

Commodity categories: Architectural And Engineering Services, Non-Professional; Engineering Services, Professional; Engineer Services, Professional; Value Engineering and Value Analysis Services, Professional; Professional Services (Not Otherwise Classified).

Contact: Kelsey Reed, Procurement Sepecialist (kreed@capecoral.gov, (239) 574-0841).

6 documents are attached to the notice: Exhibit A - Project Service Area Map; Exhibit B - Trafalgar and Skyline Flood Mitigation Plan; Exhibit C - Chiquita and Trafalgar Flood Mitigation Plan; Exhibit D - Updated Opinion of Probable Cost Three Phase Program August 2026; Cape Coral Insurance Requirements; Sample Professional Svcs Contract rev_04222025.

The full solicitation document, addenda and the question-and-answer thread are on the agency's OpenGov portal at https://procurement.opengov.com/portal/capecoralfl/projects/293164. Responses are submitted electronically there, and a free vendor account is required before you can upload one.