The City of Tuscaloosa seeks the services of a professional firm that has the knowledge, experience and expertise to perform the services as requested. The firm must be able to perform the following types of services upon request from the City: In order to facilitate the Selection Committee’s evaluation, each Respondent firm responding to this request for qualifications should include the following content, in the following order: Licensing and Professional Standing Experience Conflicts of Interest Project Understanding and Approach Quality Assurance and Quality Control Each of these items is discussed in more detail in the following sections. 3.1 Licensing and Professional Standing a. Please include a brief statement confirming that the Respondent is legally authorized to do business in Alabama and in the City of Tuscaloosa, and that all staff assigned to perform services for the project are licensed or certified to perform such services in Alabama. b. In addition, please include a statement confirming that the Respondent is not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, declared ineligible, or voluntarily excluded from participation by any state or federal department or agency. c. Finally, for the five year period preceding submission of the response for this RFP the Respondent shall please identify: (1) All contracts terminated (in whole or in part) to which the Respondent firm was a partyfor convenience or default, by either the Respondent firm or by another party to the contract with the Respondent, including: contract value description of work project owner and contract number and/or name and telephone number for a representative of the project owner