Site work for a water / sewer project in Thornton, Illinois. Completed plans call for site work for a water / sewer project.

No Bids Will Be Accepted After 11:00 a.m. Cst on the Above Scheduled Bid Date. All Bids Faxed, Mailed, Emailed or Hand Delivered to the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago Will Not Be Considered and Will Be Returned to the Bidder. There Is No Bid Depository Safe Available for Mailing or Hand Delivering Bids. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago Will Only Accept Bids Electronically Uploaded The expiration date for Ordinance 020-003 has been extended from December 31, 2021, to June 30, 2022, for the Affirmative Action Ordinance, Revised Appendix D, of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago as was approved at the December 2, 2021, Board Meeting. The District assumes no liability or responsibility for the failure or inability of any Bidder to successfully download any and all contract documents, including but not limited to specifications, proposal forms and/or plans, as a result of any type of technological computer and/or software system failure or breakdown that restricts, prohibits or prevents successful downloading of any and all District contract documents by the Bidder, whether caused by the District or other parties, directly or indirectly. Tenders are invited for the work consisting of furnishing all materials, labor, and equipment required for installation of rock anchors and drilling of horizontal drain holes into select key block faces along the south side of the Thornton Rock Dam; installation of geotechnical instrumentation, monitoring devices, and related equipment at the top of the Thornton Rock Dam and along the Rim of the Thornton Composite Reservoir; and performance of other work as specified in the Contract Documents and as shown on the Plans. The site of construction is at the Thornton Composite Reservoir and the Hanson Material Service Main Quarry Lobe, located within the Villages of South Holland and Thornton, Cook County, State of Illinois. The site of construction is at the Thornton Composite Reservoir and the Hanson Material Service Main Quarry Lobe, located within the Villages of South Holland and Thornton, Cook County, State of Illinois. The estimated cost of the work under Contract 21-260-4H is between $4,275,000.00 and $5,175,000.00. Each proposal must be accompanied by a bid deposit in the form of a bid bond in the amount of TWO HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($250,000.00). Each bid bond shall be underwritten by a surety licensed to do business in the State of Illinois, listed in the latest copy of the Federal Register and approved by the Director of Procurement and Materials Management. The bid bond must contain signatures from the Bidder and the Surety Company. Failure to provide signatures on the bid bond will result in rejection ofthe bid. Photographic and/or stamped signatures are acceptable. Any proposal submitted without being accompanied by the required bid deposit, in the aforesaid form, will not be considered and will not be read after it is publicly opened. Bidders are STRONGLY URGED to inspect all areas of the worksites prior to bidding and shall familiarize themselves with the nature of the work and the method of accomplishing the same. Prior to award of the contract, the lowest responsible bidder must demonstrate compliance with the 2017 MWRDGC Multi-Project Labor Agreement by submitting to the Director of Procurement and Materials Management a signed Certification of Compliance with 2017Multi-Project Labor Agreement (MPLA). The Agreement and Certificate of Compliance are contained in the Contract Documents. The bid money value of all materials purchased directly by the Contractor, together with the bid money value of all work performed by personnel and facilities provided directly by the Contractor, shall not be less than 40% of the money value of all work performed under this Contract. Any bid money value of work performed by the Subcontractors for work on the job site utilizing Subcontractors' materials, labor and facilities cannot be included in the percent of work to be completed by the Contractor. Bidders on contracts in excess of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) will be required to comply with the President's Executive Order No. 11246, as amended to date, regarding NON-DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT. The requirements for bidders and contractors under this order are explained in Appendix C of the Contract Documents. The provisions of Appendix C also apply to each Subcontractor on contracts in excess of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00). The Bidder agrees to fulfill the Special Training for Apprentices as specified in the Appendix K and to provide training opportunities throughout the life of the contract. The requirements of the Special Training for Apprentices are 340 Minority and/or Female hours for the purposes of this contract. The bidder shall submit with the Proposal a signed and completed MBE, WBE, SBE Utilization Plan, which lists the firms intended to be used as MBE, WBE, SBE, the type of work or service each will perform, and the dollar amount to be allocated to each MBE, WBE, SBE. Should you have any questions, please contact the Diversity Office at 312-751-4035. 1.) Each Bidder must submit with their proposals a signed and completed MBE, WBE, SBE Utilization Plan which lists each business intended to be used as a MBE, WBE, SBE on pages UP-2, UP-3 and UP-4 and supplemental pages as necessary. The Bidder must sign the Signature Section page on UP-5. Failure to submit a signed MBE, WBE, SBE Utilization Plan will result in a bid being deemed non-responsive and the bid will be rejected. Also, if a Waiver is sought, the Bidder is required to sign pages UP-5 and UP-6, the Waiver Request Form; failure to do so will be viewed as non-responsive and the bid will be rejected. 2.) Each Bidder must submit with their bid package an original or facsimile copy of MBE, WBE, SBE Subcontractor's Letter of Intent, page UP7 for each subcontractor listed on their MBE, WBE, SBE Utilization Plan. The submitted MBE, WBE, SBE Subcontractor's Letter of Intent must be completed and signed by the subcontractor and accompanied with a copy of the subcontractor's current Letter of Certification from a state, local government or agency or documentation demonstrating that the subcontractor is a MBE, WBE, or SBE within the meaning of the Affirmative Action Ordinance, Revised Appendix D. Failure to submit the MBE, WBE, SBE Utilization Plan signed by the Bidder at the time of the bid opening and the MBE, WBE, SBE Subcontractor's Letter of Intent signed by each MBE, WBE, SBE will be viewed as non-responsive and the bid will be rejected. 3.) If the Bidder exceeds the allowable Supplier Utilization amount which is stated in the bid documents, the bid will be viewed as non-responsive. Therefore, the Bidder may not exceed the use of a MBE, WBE, SBE supplier for more than 25% of each of the respective MBE, WBE, SBE goal, unless the Administrator has authorized a Supplier's Exception notated on page AU-1. 4.) The Contractor agrees to use the District's online compliance monitoring system administered by the Diversity Section for payment and reporting purposes, in order to fulfill the Affirmative Action Program requirements. The Utilization Plan MUST be signed by the bidder, even if the bidder requests a waiver and/or offers itself to meet any of the Affirmative Action Ordinance Revised Appendix D goals. If the bidder offer itself to satisfy any of the Affirmative Action Ordinance Revised Appendix D goals, then its name shall be shown in the appropriate space(s) on the Utilization Plan. Where a bidder is a business owned and controlled by a minority woman (M/WBE) or where the bidder utilizes a M/WBE in a joint venture or as a subcontractor, the bidder may count the M/WBE participation either toward the achievement of its MBE or WBE goal, but not both. If a waiver from the Affirmative Action Ordinance Revised Appendix D requirements is sought, the bidder should include with the bid package documentation of good-faith efforts to meet the Affirmative Action Ordinance Revised Appendix D utilization goals. The documentation should be provided with the bid package on the Contractor's Information form; the form is included in the package containing the contract documents. Subsequent to bid opening and if it is determined by the Affirmative Action Administrator that a Contractor's Information Form is required from the apparent low bidder, the bidder must complete and submit the form within three (3) days of receiving the written request. The work under this contract is classified "General Construction Services" for the MBE, WBE, SBE utilization goals contained in the Affirmative Action Ordinance Revised Appendix D. The associated goals are 10% Minority-owned Business Enterprises and/or Women-owned Business Enterprises and 10% Small Business Enterprises. The bidder to whom the contract is awarded must be prepared to comply with the requirements of the Affirmative Action Ordinance Revised Appendix D during the life of the contract. Bidders should read page R-2, Paragraph 6, in regards to questions on this Contract. If any potential Bidder contemplating to submit a proposal is in doubt as to the true meaning of any part of the specifications or other contract documents, such inquiry should be submitted .The path is as follows: Doing Business->Procurement and Materials Management->Contract Announcements. The District will provide an online response to such inquiries, as the District deems appropriate. Strings of appropriate questions and answers regarding the bidding documents will be available online on the District's website until the bid opening date of the bidding documents. No questions will be accepted by telephone, fax, email, mail, or any other such form of delivery. The District will only respond to questions received online UP TO ONE WEEK prior to the bid opening date of the bidding documents. The District will not respond to questions received after this date. The District does not guarantee the timeliness of responses provided online, nor does the District guarantee that such responses will be provided in adequate time to affect the submission of bids. The District shall provide responses online ONLY if the responses do not interpret or otherwise change the bidding documents. The District's responses online are NOT official responses and, therefore, are not binding to the bidding documents. Any official interpretation or change to the bidding documents will be made only by addenda duly emailed to all plan holders on record by the Director of Procurement and Materials Management. The Project Manager for this contract is Mr. Brian Wawczak. This Project Manager will provide online responses to questions submitted through the District Online Portal. HMS will escort prospective bidders into the quarry. Prospective visitors will only be allowed to take one vehicle into the quarry on the site visit. Potential bidders are advised to raise any questions related to the contract documents at the Voluntary Technical Pre-Bid Conference scheduled for January 19, 2022 or through the District Online Portal. All Contracts for the Construction of Public Works are subject to the Illinois Prevailing Wage Act (820 ILCS 130/.01 et.seq.) The contract will be awarded to the lowest responsible, responsive bidder, unless all bids are rejected. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago reserves the right to reject any or all proposals. *The value for this project is based on a financial range. The value is listed as the highest possible cost from the range provided by a stakeholder or official project document.