Consideration for award of the Bid will be made on April 25, 2022 at the City of Seagraves City Council meeting, 309 Hill Street, Seagraves, Texas. Bids are invited upon the items and quantities of work as identified in the Bid Proposal. This contract is contingent upon release of funds from the Texas Water Development Board. Attention ts called to the following requirements: Any contract or contracts awarded under this Invitation for Bids are expected to be funded in part by a loan from the Texas Water Development Board. Neither the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), State of Texas nor any of its departments, agencies, or employees is or will be a party to this Invitation for Bids or any resulting contract. Any contract(s) awarded under this Invitation for Bids is/are subject to the United States Iron and Steel (U.S. I&S) requirements of Texas Water Code 17.183 and/or Texas Government Code, Chapter 2252, Subchapter G, as amended by SB 1289, 85th Legislative Session, as applicable. Equal Opportunity in Employment - All qualified Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age (40 or older), disability, or genetic information. Bidders on this work will be required to comply with the Department of Labor regulations at 41 CFR Part 60-4, relating to Construction Contractors--A ffirmative Action Requirements, which include the President's Executive Order No. 11246, as amended by Executive Order No. 11375 and Executive Order No. 13672, in the award and administration of contracts awarded under TWDB financial assistance agreements. Failure by the Contractor to carry out these requirements is a material breach, which may result in the termination of the awarded financial assistance. This contract is subject to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program, which includes EPA-approved fair share goals toward procurement of Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprise (M/WBE) businesses. EPA rules require that applicants and prime contractors make a good faith effort to award a fair share of contracts, subcontracts, and procurements to M/WBEs through demonstration of the six affirmative steps.
For more details of the DBE Program and the current, applicable fair share goals, please visit portal. All documents are available at portal at no charge. All Requests for Information (RFI's) by Contractors during the bidding process must be submitted to the Engineer by typed, electronic means. Bidders should submit all RFI's via the CivCast USA website page set up for this project at portal. Each proposal shall be accompanied by a cashier's check drawn upon a national or state bank, a negotiable U.S. Government bond (at par value), or a bid bond from a reliable surety company, in an amount not less than five percent (5%) of the total maximum bid price, payable without recourse to the City of Seagraves, as a guarantee that the bidder shall enter into a contract and execute a performance bond and a payment bond within ten (10) days after notice of award of the contract to him. The notice of award of contract will be given by the City of Seagraves within ninety (90) days following the opening of bids. The right is reserved, as the interest of the Owner may require, to reject any and all bids, and to waive any informality in bids recetved.
.webp)
