SLED Opportunity · NORTH CAROLINA · NORTH CAROLINA
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The Town of Fair Bluff seeks professional services to retrofit Suite 100 for a full-service restaurant, funded by a USDA Rural Business Development Grant. The project aims to meet health department guidelines and tenant needs for Kousins Kitchen Soul & Catering.
The Town of Fair Bluff has received a $188,888 Rural Business – Cooperative Service, US Department of Agriculture, Rural Business Development Grant (RBDG) to assist in the design and renovation of Suite 100, Town of Fair Bluff Downtown Development Center. Kousins Kitchen Soul & Catering (Kousins) is leasing Suite 100 to operate its restaurant and catering service. The suite’s retail store open space layout does not support separate table service, take-out, and/or on-site food preparation resulting in it not being conducive for restaurant use. The suite food preparation limitations result in the Columbus County Health Department, restricting Kousins restaurant to a deli style menu that does not require food preparation. The Town of Fair Bluff is seeking qualification statements from interested firms to provide professional services to enable it to retrofit Suite 100 retail space to enable its use as a full-service restaurant with food preparation that meets the needs of its current tenant, Kousins Kitchen Soul & Catering (Kousins), as well as, Columbus County Health Department guidelines. Professional service and construction contracts using RBDG funds must meet applicable Federal (RBDG) requirements. It is the intent of the Town to obtain qualification statements for comparison by soliciting proposals from an adequate number of sources to permit reasonable competition consistent with the nature and requirements of the project. The qualifications of firms submitting proposals will be evaluated as provided for in the” Administrative Requirements for Grants and Cooperative Agreements to State, Local and Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments (24 CFR 85). The Town of Fair Bluff reserves the right to make such investigations to determine the qualifications and ability of each offeror to perform the work in a satisfactory manner within the specified time frame
SLED stands for State, Local, and Education. These are solicitations issued by state governments, counties, cities, school districts, utilities, and higher education institutions — as opposed to federal agencies.
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