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17 <br /> Critical updated information may be included in Addenda to this RFP. It is important that all Vendors <br /> proposing on this RFP periodically check the Orange County's website <br /> https://www.orangecountync.gov/Bids.aspx for any Addenda that may be issued prior to the bid opening <br /> date. All Vendors shall be deemed to have read and understood all information in this RFP and all Addenda <br /> thereto. <br /> 2.6 PROPOSAL CONTENTS <br /> Vendors shall populate all attachments of this RFP that require the Vendor to provide information and <br /> include an authorized signature where requested. Vendor RFP responses shall include the following items <br /> and those attachments should be arranged in the following order: <br /> a) Cover Letter(Identify Project Manager) <br /> b) A written narrative response to address the Project Organization <br /> c) A written narrative response to address the Technical Approach <br /> d) Vendor Experience and Qualifications <br /> e) Total cost for the proposed services for Hillsborough-Efland Area Locations per month and per year. <br /> Include the cost breakdown by type of service/activity by each location. <br /> f) Total cost for the proposed services for Chapel Hill Area Locations per month and per year. Include the <br /> cost breakdown by type of service/activity by each location. <br /> g) Total cost for the proposed services for both Hillsborough-Efland and Chapel Hill Area Locations per <br /> month and per year. Include the cost breakdown by type of service/activity by each location. <br /> h) Completed Appendix B: Business Informational form. <br /> i) Acknowledgement of receipt of any addenda. <br /> j) Living Wage Contractor Policy form <br /> k) Completed and notarized E-Verify form. <br /> 1) Completed and signed Orange County Non-Discrimination Certification form <br /> m) Completed Supplemental Vendor Information: Historically Underutilized Businesses form. <br /> 3.0 METHOD OF AWARD AND PROPOSAL EVALUATION PROCESS <br /> 3.1 METHOD OF AWARD <br /> All qualified proposals will be evaluated, and awards will be made to the Vendor(s) meeting the RFP <br /> requirements and achieving the highest and best final evaluation, based on the criteria described below. <br /> While the intent of this RFP is to award a Contract(s) to single Vendor, Orange County reserves the right <br /> to make separate awards to different Vendors for one or more-line items, to not award one or more-line <br /> items or to cancel this RFP in its entirety without awarding a Contract if it is considered to be most <br /> advantageous to the County to do so. <br /> Orange County reserves the right to waive any minor informality or technicality in proposals received. <br /> 3.2 CONFIDENTIALITY AND PROHIBITED COMMUNICATIONS DURING <br /> EVALUATION <br /> During the evaluation period—from the date proposals are opened through the date the contract is <br /> awarded—each Vendor submitting a proposal (including its representatives, sub-contractors and/or <br /> suppliers) is prohibited from having any communications with any person inside or outside the using <br /> agency, issuing agency, other government agency office, or body (including the purchaser named above, <br /> department secretary, agency head, members of the general assembly and/or governor's office), or private <br /> 4 <br />