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

This project is to replace the three (3) chillers, two (2) cooling towers, control panel, and piping as needed for the chiller system due to the existing equipment exceeding its useful life expectancy. ESTIMATED BUDGET: $3,353,400.00 Offers providing less than one hundred eighty (180) Days for acceptance after the date offers are due will not be considered and will be rejected. Late Offers will not be accepted. September 19, 2023 3:00 p.m. Last Day to Submit Written Questions for Clarification to the Department. September 26, 2023 5:00 p.m. Last Day to Submit Responses to Offerors Questions. The performance period for this Contract shall be two hundred seventy-five (275) Days and shall begin on the date designated in the Notice to Proceed. All Work shall be completed within the number of Days designated in the Notice to Proceed, unless otherwise modified by written agreement of the contracting parties. If the Contractor fails to complete the Work within the time specified in the Contract, or any extension, the Contractor shall pay to the TDCJ as liquidated damages, the sum of four hundred and seventy dollars ($470.00) for each available Day of delay. Contractor must provide evidence that demonstrates the contractor is qualified to satisfactorily perform the specified work and, the contractor shall submit written evidence to include a minimum of three (3) projects completed within the last ten (10) years of similar work, size, and complexity to include the owner's name, telephone number, location, type of facility, construction cost and the date of completion with all bid proposals. Contractors are required to submit a HUB Subcontracting Plan as detailed in Exhibit 1. Failure to submit a completed HUB Subcontracting Plan will result in the bid being rejected from further consideration. Contractor must be bondable and insurable at the levels required. All bid proposals must be accompanied by a Bid Deposit in the amount of 5% of greatest amount bid. Performance and Payment Bonds in the amount of 100% of the contract amount will be required upon award of a contract. The TDCJ reserves the right to reject any or all bids, and to waive any informality or irregularity. It is the TDCJ's intent to issue the Notice to Proceed at the Pre-Construction Meeting with the performance period to begin upon issuance. Due to strict security please be aware that entrance to the unit will be denied to anyone in possession of any items to include, but not limited to, any of the following: weapons (including pocketknives), tobacco products, alcohol, cell phones, pagers and more than $25.00. Visitors are subjected to searches as they enter the facility and may be required to walk through electronic scanning equipment such as metal detectors. Access to the facility will be denied to anyone not willing to be searched. Appropriate attire required.