Issue Date: February 19, 2025
Title: Mosley Heights Community Revitalization Project
Commodity Code: Housing Rehabilitation Assessment Services
Issuing Agency & Address:
Town of Altavista
510 7th Street
Altavista, VA 24517
Location of Work:
Mosley Heights Area
Town of Altavista, Virginia
Period of Contract: March 2025 - May 2025
Contact Person:
Jefrado Granger, Project Manager
Central Virginia Planning District Commission
828 Main Street, 12th Floor, Lynchburg, VA 24504
O: (434) 845-5678, x. 7608; M: (434) 818-7608
jefrado.granger@cvpdc.org
Background
The Town of Altavista has received a CDBG Planning Grant from the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (VDHCD) to provide an assessment of housing and infrastructure needs within the Mosley Heights community. The goal is to create a redevelopment strategy that will eventually provide revitalization to the entire Mosley Heights community. The Town of Altavista will utilize the results of the assessment, along with other project evaluation elements, in order to develop a community improvement construction grant to VDHCD in the summer of 2025.
Purpose And Scope Of Services
The Town of Altavista desires to solicit proposals for the purposes of entering into a contract through competitive negotiations for the professional services of an architectural firm and/or housing rehabilitation specialist, authorized to do business in the Commonwealth of Virginia, to assist in the planning activities, including evaluation of housing rehabilitation needs within the Mosley Heights area and preparation of cost evaluations for a future CDBG grant application. A contract for these planning services would be substantially complete by May 15th, 2025. The following generally highlights the services that the firm will be required to perform:
- Attend monthly Project Management Team; two public hearings, during the course of the planning grant.
- Conduct walk-through inspections of as many as possible of the occupied housing units in the project area with the current HUD Section 8 Inspection form to identify violations of the DHCD Housing Quality Standards (HQS). Housing units are defined as owner-occupied single-family housing units, investor-owned single family and multi-family housing units and owner-occupied mobile homes.
- Must conduct walk-through inspections of all occupied low- and moderate-income housing units in the project area with the current HUD Section 8 Inspection form to identify violations of the DHCD Housing Quality Standards (HQS) as outlined in Appendix 55 of the 2017 Grant Management Manual.
- Identify all repairs needed to bring all substandard houses up to DHCD HQS;
- Develop preliminary cost estimates of all need repairs, broken down by major building components costs and by base construction, individual exceptions and demolition costs;
- Provide a minimum of two biddable work write-ups and itemized cost estimates. Work write-up must comply with DHCD’s Housing Quality Standards as outlined in Grant Management Manual; and
- Develop housing rehab summary spreadsheets in a format to be provided.
- Provide inspection and evaluation of commercial property external improvement needs, according to DHCD project-eligible improvements.
The Town of Altavista may, at its sole discretion, amend or extend its contract with the successful proposer to include continued housing rehabilitation management services should the Town submit and be awarded a construction improvement grant from VDHCD. Any new agreement will include these required activities as stipulated by VDHCD:
Answers to questions received by March 1, 2025
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