Renovation of a municipal facility in Honolulu, Hawaii. Completed plans call for the renovation of a municipal facility.

These General Instructions to Bidders (General Instructions) describe the Board of Water Supply of the City and County of Honolulu's (BWS) policy relating to bidding for construction projects as authorized by the Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS) Chapter 103D and Hawaii Administrative Rules (HAR), Title 3, Department of Accounting and General Services. Should any provision herein be inconsistent with the HAR, the HAR shall govern. Where there is a discrepancy between the bid proposal and other parts of the invitation for bids, the bid proposal shall govern. In addition to any other basis identified herein or in the Contract, the Contracting Officer reserves the right to refuse to accept any bid or to reject any bid received from any bidder for any of the following reasons: 1. The bidder that submitted the bid is non-responsible; 2. The bid is not responsive, i.e. it does not conform in all materialrespects to the Invitation for Bids; 3. The construction item offered in the bid is unacceptable by reason of its failure to meet the requirements of the specifications or permissible alternates or other acceptability criteria set forth in the Invitation forBids; 4. Conditioning Bids Upon Other Awards. The bid is conditioned upon receiving award of both the particular contract being solicited and another BWS contract; 5. The bid contains prices that are unbalanced, omissions, erasures, alterations, additions not called for, or other irregularities of anykind; 6. The bidder is not currently licensed or has a license that does notcover the type of work required. 7. The bid contains an incomplete, ambiguous, or erroneous listing ofjoint contractors or subcontractors. 8. Bids Submitted by Any One Person Under the Same or Different Names. The bidder submitted more than one (1) bid in response to the solicitation. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing provision, a bidder shall be considered to have submitted more than one (1) bid if such bidder submits more than one (1) bid under the same name, or through agents, or through joint ventures, partnerships, or corporationsin which such bidder has more than a twenty-five percent (25%) interest in each of them, or through any combination thereof. 9. Evidence that two (2) or more bidders are in collusion to restrict competitive bidding. In such event, the bids of all such bidders shall be rejected and such evidence may be cause for the disqualification of the participants in any future proposal involving any contract with theBWS.