Renovation of a water / sewer project in Austin, Texas. Completed plans call for the renovation of a water / sewer project.

Scope: Construction of Rocky Creek Ranch Wastewater Treatment Plant Improvements. The work consists of providing the necessary labor, materials, equipment, supervision, and plant to construct the Rocky Creek Ranch Wastewater Treatment Plant Improvements. The scope of work includes, but is not limited to, surface preparation and recoating of the above ground piping at the on-site lift station, surface preparation and recoating the existing tertiary filter basins and piping, installation of a temporary tertiary filter bypass system to keep the plant in operation and compliance during the performance of the improvements, surface preparation and recoating the effluent pump station above ground piping, surface preparation and recoating the irrigation booster pump station piping and pumps, installation of pipe insulation at the irrigation booster pump station, surface preparation and recoating the return activated sludge/internal recycle (RAS/IR) pumps and piping. B. The Project Site. The project is located in western Travis County at 9606 Crumley Ranch Road, Austin, TX 78738. To complete the work within calendar days from date of Notice to Proceed and to achieve final completion within 30 calendar days from substantial completion date. Each Bid must be accompanied by a Bid Bond or a certified or cashier's check, acceptable to the Owner, in an amount not less than two percent (2%) of the total amount Bid, as a guarantee that the successful bidder will enter into the Contract Documents and execute the Bonds on the forms provided and provide the required insurance certificates within seven (7) days after the date Contract Documents are received by the Contractor. If a certified or cashier's check is provided, the successful bidder shall deliver, at the bid opening address, the original certified or cashier's check within twenty-four (24) hours of receipt of the bid opening. The successful bidder must furnish a performance bond and a payment bond each in the sum of 100 percent of the Contract Price. The successful bidder must also provide a one-year (1) Maintenance Bond for one hundred (100) percent of the cost of the construction of the improvements that will be owned by Travis County Municipal Utility District No. 16. The Bonds must be in the form prescribed by the Contract Documents except as required otherwise by Laws and Regulations. The Bonds must be from a surety company holding a permit from the State of Texas to act as surety. Unless otherwise specified, the cost of proving Bonds must be included in the bidders total bid amount. The Owner reserves the right to reject any or all Bids and to waive all defects and irregularities in bidding or bidding process except time of submitting a Bid. The Successful Bidder, if any, will be the responsible Bidder which in the Board's judgment will be most advantageous to the District and result in the best and most economical completion of the Project. The Owner reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Owner reserves the right to reject any or all Bids, including without limitation the right to reject any or all nonconforming, non-responsive, unbalanced or conditional Bids and to reject the Bid of any bidder if Owner believes that it would not be in the best interest of the Project to make award to that bidder, whether because the Bid is not responsive or the bidder is unqualified or of doubtful financial ability or fails to meet any other pertinent standard or criteria of Owner. Owner also reserves the right to waive all informalities and defects in bidding, except time of submitting a Bid. Discrepancies between the multiplication of units and unit prices in a Bid will be resolved in favor of the unit prices. Discrepancies between the indicated sum of any column of figures and the correct sum thereof will be resolved in favor of the correct sum if the correct sum is evident from the face of the Bid . IQUIDATED DAMAGES/ECONOMIC DISINCENTIVE. The Contractor and the Owner agree that time is of the essence of this Contract. The Contractor and the Owner agree that a breach of this Contract by failure to complete the Work in the specified time will cause harm to the Owner, and further agree that the harm the Owner would sustain and the actual measure of damages the Owner would incur from the breach are incapable or very difficult of ascertainment. Therefore, the Contractor and the Owner agree that for each and every calendar day the Work or any portion thereof shall remain uncompleted after the expiration of the time limit(s) set in the Contract, or as extended under the provisions of these General Conditions (including, without limitation, due to a delay caused by Contractor's failure to comply with the Contract Documents or due to Owner's termination of Contractor for default under the Contract Documents), Contractor shall be liable to Owner for liquidated damages or economic disincentives under Section 49.271(e) of Texas Water Code, in the amount of five hundred sixty dollars and zero cents ($560.00) for each such calendar day, which sum the parties agree is a reasonable forecast of the damages the Owner will sustain per day that the Work remains uncompleted and in no way constitutes a penalty. The Owner shall have the option to deduct and withhold said amount from any monies that the Owner owes the Contractor or its suretiesor to recover such amount from the Contractor or the sureties on the Contractor's bond. Notwithstanding any liquidated damages/economic disincentives provisions contained in the Contract Documents, in the event Owner is damaged in the course of the Work by the negligent or intentional acts of the Contractor Parties so as to cause loss or liability to Owner, then Contractor shall reimburse Owner for such loss, including attorney's fees, and Owner's damages shall not be capped by any liquidated damages/economic disincentives provisions in the Contract Documents. No acceptance of this proposal, by purchase order or otherwise, may be modified except by written consent of Aqua-Aerobic Systems, Inc. nor may it be cancelled except by prior payment to Aqua-Aerobic Systems, Inc. the following sums as liquidated damages therefore: 1) If cancellation is prior to commencement of production and prior to the assumption of any obligations by Aqua-Aerobic Systems, Inc. for any materials or component parts, a sum equal to 15% of the total purchase price; 2) If cancellation is after the commencement of production or after the assumption of any obligations by Aqua- Aerobic Systems, Inc. for any materials or component parts, a sum equal to the total of the direct, out-of-pocket expenses incurred to the date of cancellation for labor, machine time, materials and any charges made to us by suppliers for cancellation, plus 30% of the total purchase price. All charges and expenses shall be as determined by Aqua-Aerobic Systems, Inc. In the event any items are used by Aqua-Aerobic Systems, Inc. to fill a subsequent order, then upon receipt of payment for such order, Aqua-Aerobic Systems, Inc. shall pay the Buyer a sum equal to the direct out-of- pocket expenses previously charged and received from Buyer. The deadline to ask questions is 3/07/2023 10:00 AM CST via CIVCAST