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3 5. The City reserves the right to reject any and all applications for Pre-Qualification, and refuse to include a contractor on the Registry if the City determines in its sole discretion that the Contractor lacks sufficient experience, financial strength, or technical expertise to perform the work under the City’s Lead Hazard Reduction Grants, or has failed to comply with applicable statutes, ordinances, rules and regulations, or has failed to perform their work satisfactorily. 6. Contractors will be notified if they have been placed on the Registry following staff review of their Response. 7. The City will issue an RFQ for qualified lead contractors at least once every six months for the duration of the lead grants. Once a Contractor is added to the Registry, they can remain on it for the duration of the lead grants. The City may reach out to Contractors, from time to time, to confirm they are still interested in remaining on the Registry. 8. Contractors on the Registry must provide copies of licenses of any new employees or subcontractors that are hired by the Contractor, as well as ensuring all employees performing lead hazard control work maintain active Lead Project Supervisor or Lead Worker licenses (and provide the City copies if/when renewed). 9. At any point in time following the RFQ, a lead contractor may request to be placed on or deleted from the Registry of Pre-Qualified Lead Contractors. To be added to the Registry, lead contractors must submit a completed application and all supporting documents as outlined in this RFQ to the City of South Bend, Department of Community Investment. 10. Contractors on the Registry will be notified of opportunities to bid on Lead Hazard Reduction Program work. It is the responsibility of the contractor to submit a complete bid, by the established deadline, in order to be considered for the award of a contract. Work will be awarded to the lowest, responsive and responsible bid. 11. The City reserves the right to remove contractors from the Registry based on non-responsiveness, quality of work, repeated failures of post-work clearance examination, or failure to provide updated information as reasonably requested by the City.