This is a service / maintenance or supply contract in Baltimore, Maryland. Contact the soliciting agency for additional information.

The Maryland Environmental Service is soliciting competitive sealed bids from qualified Contractors to furnishing and delivering Sodium Hydroxide Solution (25%) and Sodium Hydroxide Solution (50%), pounds to Dundalk Marine Terminal Ground Water Treatment Plant. The initial term of the Contract shall be for One (1) year period, starting from issuance of a written notice-to-proceed from the MES Project Manager (or his designee). There are no bonding requirements for this project. When the base bid is in excess of $100,000, and if required elsewhere in the solicitation, the bidder must furnish a bid bond issued by a surety company approved by the State with his construction Bid Form. The Bid Bond must be in an amount not less than five per cent (5%) of the amount of the base bid and shall be submitted on a form provided by the Service. Assistance in obtaining bid, performance and payment bonds may be available to qualifying small businesses through the Maryland Small Business Development Financing Authority (MSBDFA). MSBDFA can directly issue bid, performance or payment bonds up to $750,000. MSBDFA may also guaranty up to 90% of a surety's losses as a result of a Contractor's breach of contract; MSBDFAs exposure on any bond guaranteed may not, however, exceed $900,000. Bonds issued directly by the program will remain in effect for the duration of the contract, and those surety bonds that are guaranteed by the program will remain in effect for the duration of the suretys exposure under the contract. To be eligible for bonding assistance, a business must first be denied bonding by at least one surety in both the standard and specialty markets within 90 days of submitting a bonding application to MSBDFA. The applicant must employ fewer than 500 full-time employees or have a gross sales of less that $50 million annually, have its principal place of business in Maryland or be a Maryland resident, must not subcontract more than 75 percent of the work, and the business or its principals must have a reputation of good moral character and financial responsibility. Finally, it must be demonstrated that the bonding or guarantee will have a measurable economic impact, through job creation and expansion of the state tax base. Applicants are required to work through their respective bonding agents in applying for assistance under the program. The Service reserves the right to: (a) Reject any and all bids or part(s) of bids or to accept any bid or part(s) of bids in the public interest. (b) Waive any informality in a bid. (c) Cancel this invitation at any time without liability to any bidder (d) Make the award by item, or groups of items, or total bid if it is in the best interest of the Service to do so.