CITY OF HIALEAH ADVERTISEMENT & INVITATION FOR BIDS The City of Hialeah, Florida, will receive electronic (sealed) bids for the project entitled: Bus Bench Replacement, Advertising, and Maintenance Program until Friday, October 3, 2025, the bids must be submitted electronically in the manner specified below and in no other manner. Bids submitted in any other manner will not be considered. Bus Bench Replacement, Advertising, and Maintenance BID #2024-25-035 Contract documents, including drawings, technical specifications, addendums, and proposal forms, may be obtained on the City’s e-Procurement Portal located at https://procurement.opengov.com/portal/cityofhialeahfl The City of Hialeah (“City”), through its Transit Department, is seeking proposals from qualified and experienced professional firms (“Contractor” or “Proposer”) to provide a comprehensive bus bench program. This program includes the provision, installa- tion, replacement, removal, and ongoing maintenance of approximately 324 bus benches and the management of an advertising program on designated benches located within the public rights-of-way at specified Miami-Dade County Transit bus stop locations throughout the City of Hialeah. The City wishes to add approximately 144 additional bus benches throughout the life of the contract, and locations will be finalized after the proposal is awarded. The Contractor shall have the exclusive right to perform these services, designed to be funded through advertising revenue, ideally at no direct cost to the City for the core services described herein. The program aims to enhance public transit amenities for riders, maintain high aesthetic and community standards throughout the City, and potentially generate revenue for the City. Each Response must be submitted electronically via the City’s e-Procurement Portal located at https://procurement.opengov.com/portal/cityofhialeahfl no later than the date and time specified below. Bids received after said date and time or in some other manner than as stated above will not be considered, and no time extensions will be granted. The City’s schedule for this Solicitation is as follows: Event Date Time Advertisement Date: September 7, 2025 Last Date for Receipt September 26, 2025 2:00 PM of Written Questions: Deadline for Submittal of October 3, 2025 11:00 AM Bids: (The City reserves the right to delay or modify schedule dates/times and will use its best efforts to notify Bidders of all changes in scheduled dates.) The City of Hialeah reserves the right to reject any and all responses, and to decide to re-advertise/re-bid or not, or to waive any informalities or minor irregularities, tech- nicalities, or omissions, in the solicitation process. Responses may be held over by the City of Hialeah Purchasing Division, at its sole discretion, for a period not to exceed one hundred eighty (180) days from the date of opening for the purpose of reviewing the responses and investigating the qualifications of the respondents, prior to consid- eration of the awarding of the contract and must be honored by the Vendor on the same terms and conditions during this period. Please be advised that this Solicitation is issued subject to the City of Hialeah’s Char- ter and Code of Ordinances. and the Miami-Dade County “Cone of Silence”, see 2-11.1(t), Miami-Dade County Code, which are deemed as being incorporated by reference in this IFB. Communications with the Mayor, City Council, and City Staff are restricted. City of Hialeah, Florida LUIS A. SUAREZ Luis A. Suarez, Purchasing Division Director.