The City of Pittsburgh Office of Management and Budget is Soliciting Bids for Traffic Signal Equipment 3. DEADLINE FOR QUESTIONS: December 15, 2021
Period of Contract:January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2022 with one, one-year option to renew. The City reserves the right to request clarification of any bid before bid award. The City reserves the right to reject, for any reason, any or all bids if it is in the best interest(s) of the City to do so. The City of Pittsburgh is committed to the ideal of providing all citizens an equal opportunity to participate in City and its Authorities' contracting opportunities. It is therefore the City's goal to encourage increased participation of women and minority groups in all City contracts. The City requires that all respondents demonstrate good faith efforts to obtain the participation of Minority-Owned Business Enterprises (MBE's) and Women-Owned Business Enterprises (WBE's) in work to be performed under City contracts. The levels of MBE and WBE participation will be monitored by the City of Pittsburghs Equal Opportunity Review Commission (EORC). In order to ensure that there are opportunities for historically disadvantaged minority groups and women to participate on Covered Contracts, and consistent with the City's current equal employment opportunity practice and goals, the EORC will review contracts to include an evaluation of a developer/contractors employment of minority groups and women, encourage goals of eighteen (18) percent and seven (7) percent respectively. Whenever a bid bond or payment bond is required, the bidder may meet the requirement by submitting an acceptable cashier's check, certified check, banker's check or an irrevocable letter of credit in the amount required. Whenever a payment bond is required, the successful bidder shall keep all provisions and requirements of the bond up-to-date throughout the term of the contract.
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