Bidders Qualification Statement is required and shall be submitted directly to the City of Kiel 5 calendar days prior to bid opening per Instructions to Bidders. A copy of the Davis Bacon General Decision No. WI20210008 (12/17/2021) for this project have been included. As a part of their Bids, Bidders shall submit a full and complete list of: 1) all of the proposed Subcontractors, and 2) the class of work which each will perform. The selected Contractor shall not alter this list without the written consent of the City. All Bids shall be accompanied by Bid Security in the form of a Bid Bond, payable to the City of Kiel, in the amount of no less than five percent (5%) nor more than ten percent (10%) of the bid. Prospective bidders must be on the plan holders list through QuestCDN for bids to be accepted. Bidders may not withdraw their bid within the 90-day period after the date of the bid opening. The owner encourages DBEs, including MBEs and WBEs, to submit bid proposals. The successful bidder will be required to conform to the wage requirements prescribed by the federal Davis-Bacon and Related Acts which requires that all laborers and mechanics employed by contractors and sub-contractors performing on contracts funded in whole or in part with federal funds in excess of $2,000 pay their laborers and mechanics not less than the prevailing wage rates and fringe benefits, as determined by the Secretary of Labor, for corresponding classes of laborers and mechanics employed on similar projects in the area. - U.S. Dept. of Labor Wage and Hour Division May 29, 2009 Guidance. This project is being financed in whole or in part by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources through the Clean Water Fund Program (CWFP) or the Safe Drinking Water Loan Program (SDWLP). Municipalities constructing projects designated as Federal Equivalency must comply with the following federal laws and all applicable state and federal laws, rules, and regulations and must ensure that their contractor(s) also comply with these laws, rules, and regulations. A number of provisions are designed to prevent unfair practices that adversely affect DBEs. Those provisions are as follows: 1. A loan recipient must require its prime contractor to pay its subcontractor for satisfactory performance no later than 30 days from the prime contractor receipt of payment from the loan recipient. 2. A loan recipient must be notified in writing by its prime contractor prior to any termination of a DBE subcontractor for convenience by the prime contractor. 3. If a DBE subcontractor fails to complete work under the subcontract for any reason, the loan recipient must require the prime contractor to employ the six good faith efforts if soliciting a replacement subcontractor. 4. A loan recipient must require its prime contractor to employ the six good faith efforts even if the prime contractor has achieved its fair share objectives.
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