Site work for a water / sewer project in Chicago, Illinois. Completed plans call for site work for a water / sewer project.

No bids will be accepted after 11:00 AM CDT on the above scheduled bid opening date. All bids 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 Tenders are invited for the work consisting of furnishing all materials, labor, and equipment required to perform television inspection and recording and cleaning of various District sewers and manholes, Cured-in place pipe lining services and automated defect recognitions at various locations within the District's boundary for a three year period. The Contract is divided, for purposes of bidding, into 18 Items. Bidders must submit bids for all Items or the bid will be rejected as non-responsive. The District intends to issue one Contract to one bidder for all the work to be performed. Funding of all contract items is subject to the Board of Commissioners' approval of the budget for those years. The estimated cost of the work under Contract 22-875-1S is between $4,560,000.00 and $5,520,000.000. *The value for this project is based on a financial range. The value is listed as the highest possible cost from the range provided by a stakeholder or official project document. Bidders are STRONGLY URGED to inspect all areas of the worksites prior to bidding, and shall familiarize themselves with the nature of the work and the method of accomplishing the same. 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. If any potential Bidder contemplating to submit a proposal is in doubt as to the true meaning of any part of the specifications or other contract documents, such inquiry should be submitted online at the District's website, www.mwrd.org. The path is as follows: Doing BusinessProcurement and Materials Management Contract Announcements. The District will provide an online response to such inquiries, as the District deems appropriate. Strings of appropriate questions and answers regarding the bidding documents will be available online on the District's website until the bid opening date of the bidding documents. No questions will be accepted by telephone, fax, email, mail, or any other such form of delivery. 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. Each proposal must be accompanied by a bid deposit in the form of a bid bond in the amount of TWO HUNDRED FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($240,000.00). Each bid bond must be underwritten by a surety licensed to do business in the State of Illinois, listed in the latest copy of the Federal Register and approved by the Director of Procurement and Materials Management. The bid bond must contain signatures from the Bidder and Surety Company. Failure to provide signatures on the bid bond will result in the rejection of the bid. Photographic and/or stamped signatures are acceptable. Any proposal submitted without being accompanied by the required bid deposit, in the aforesaid form, will not be considered and will not be read after it is publicly opened. The contract will be awarded to the lowest responsible, responsive Bidder, unless all bids are rejected. Prior to award of the contract, the lowest responsible bidder must demonstrate compliance with the District's MultiProject Labor Agreement (Cook County) by submitting to the Director of Procurement and Materials Management a signed Certification of Compliance with the Multi-Project Labor Agreement (MPLA). The Agreement and Certificate of Compliance are contained in the Contract Documents. Bidders on contracts in excess of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) will be required to comply with the President's Executive Order No. 11246 as amended to date regarding NONDISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT. The requirements for Bidders and Contractors under this Order are explained in Appendix C of the Contract Documents. Subsequent to the bid opening, and if it is determined by the Affirmative Action Administrator that a Contractor's Information form is required from the apparent low bidder, the bidder must complete and submit the form within (3) days of receiving the written request. The work under this contract is classified "Construction Services" for the Socially and Economically Disadvantaged Individuals utilization goals contained in the Affirmative Action Ordinance, Revised Appendix D. The associated tailored goals are 12% Minority-owned Business Enterprises (MBE) and/or Women-owned Business Enterprises (WBE) and 3% Veteran-owned Businesses (VBE). Should you have any questions, please contact the Diversity Office at 312-751-4035. It is required that the prospective bidder indicates participation by signing each applicable MBE, WBE Utilization Plan contained with the Contract Document. The Bidder to whom the Contract is awarded must be prepared to comply with the requirements of the Affirmative Action Ordinance during the life of the Contract. The Contractor agrees to use the District's online compliance monitoring system administered by the Diversity Section for payment and reporting purposes in order to fulfill the Affirmative Action requirements. Bidders should read the bidding requirements set forth on pages R-1 through R-6, and in particular page R-2, Paragraph 6, in regards to questions on this Contract. The Project Manager for this contract is Fred Wu. This Project Manager will provide online responses to online inquiries. All Contracts for the Construction of Public Works are subject to the Illinois Prevailing Wage Act (820 ILCS 130/1 et.seq.) Bids will be deemed non-responsive if not submitted using the Bonfire-project specific URL link, provided by the District with bidding documents. The contract will be awarded to the lowest responsible, responsive bidder, unless all bids are rejected. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago reserves the right to reject any or all Proposals.