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

Tenders are invited to furnish and deliver liquid carbon dioxide to the Stickney Water Reclamation Plant for a thirteen (13) month period. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District intends to issue one purchase order to one Contractor for all the material to be furnished under this Contract. Each Proposal must be accompanied by a bid deposit in the form of a bid bond. The bid deposit for this Contract is $42,000.00. Funding of all Contract items is subject to the Board of Commissioners approval of the Districts budget for all years under this Contract. Any questions regarding the downloading of the Contract Document should be directed to the following email: contractdesk@mwrd.org or Bidders may call (312) 751-6643. Further, 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. Any Proposal which indicates multiple or alternate bids will be deemed non-responsive and will be rejected by the Director of Procurement and Materials Management. 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 Districts 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 issued to all plan holders on record by the Director of Procurement and Materials Management. Failure on the part of the prospective bidder to receive a written interpretation prior to the time of the opening of bids will not be grounds for withdrawal of proposal. The Resident Engineer for this Contract is Ms. Debbra Hill. Ms. Hill will provide online responses to online inquiries. Bidders shall take special note of the stipulations on page G-4, under Interpretation of Contract Documents, in regards to questions on this Contract. All Contracts for the Construction of Public Works are subject to the Illinois Prevailing Wage Act (820 ILCS 130/1-12). The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago reserves the right to reject any or all Proposals.