The City of Rock Island requests that interested licensed and bonded contractors submit a cost schedule for the exterior painting of the Rock Island Public Works building located at 1309 Mill Street, Rock Island, IL. The Contractor shall be responsible for complying with all local, state, and federal regulations pertaining to this project. The City of Rock Island is committed to preserving equal rights for all of its citizens during the construction of its public works projects and encourages minority contractors to submit bids for this work. The City also encourages bidders to consider hiring subcontractors and employees of all racial and ethnic backgrounds. It is the intent of the City of Rock Island to award a contract to the lowest responsible bidder provided the bid has been submitted in accordance with the bidding requirements. The City reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive informalities or technicalities. To the extent that the Prevailing Wage Act (820 ILCS 130/0.01 et seq.) (Act) applies to this Contract, it is the Contractor's obligation to pay (and require every Subcontractor to pay) prevailing wages as established by the Illinois Department of Labor for each craft or type of work needed to execute the Contract in accordance with the Act. Each Bidder shall accompany the Bid with a Bid security, in a separate envelope, as security that the successful bidder will enter into a contract for the work bid upon and shall furnish after the award of the contract corporate surety bond or bonds, acceptable to the Owner, for the faithful performance of the contract, in an amount equivalent to one hundred percent of the amount of the contract. The bidder's security shall be in an amount equivalent to five percent (5%) of the bid amount, and shall be in the form of a cashier's or certified check drawn on a bank in Illinois or a bank chartered under the laws of the United States of America, or a certified bank share draft drawn on a credit union in Iowa or chartered under the laws of the United States of America or a bid bond with corporate surety satisfactory to the Owner. The successful bidder shall be required to provide a Performance, Labor, Material and Maintenance Bond
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