All bids emailed, faxed, mailed or hand delivered will not be considered and will be returned to
the Bidder. There is no bid depository safe available for mailing or hand delivering bids. The
District will only accept bids electronically uploaded. Please see specific instructions on how to upload your bid
to the Bonfire Portal in the bid document entitled "Submission via the Bonfire Portal." Bids
will be deemed non-responsive if not submitted using the Bonfire-project specific URL link,
provided by the District with the bidding documents.
Any questions regarding the downloading of the Contract Document should be
directed to the following email: cotractdesk@mwrd.org or call 312-751-6643.
Failure to submit the required documents as specified may render the bid non-responsive and the bid may
be rejected.
TENDERS ARE INVITED to furnish and deliver monitoring equipment for deep well sampling to the
District's Industrial Waste Field Office at the Stickney Water Reclamation Plant in Cicero, Illinois from
the award of the purchase order through December 31, 2023.
The Contract is comprised of five (5) items. Bidders must submit bids for all five (5) items or the
bid will be rejected as non-responsive. The District intends to award one (1) Contract to one (1)
Bidder for all the items.
The cost estimate of this Contract is $38,000.00. There is no bid deposit required.
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.
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 District's 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 contact person for this contract is Ms. Heidi Warner. This contact person will provide online
responses to online inquiries.
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