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

The work consists of sweeping the business district (2.7 miles) as directed; sweeping designated streets (app. 53.15 miles) once in the spring and sweeping miscellaneous streets and parking lots as directed. The contract is for a one year period, January 2024 to January 2025. The Bid Security from the Contractor in the form of cash, certified check, treasurer check, or cashier's check, drawn upon a responsible bank in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts or a bid bond in the amount of five percent (5%) of the Bid shall be made payable to the City of Greenfield, Massachusetts and shall be enclosed with the Bid. A. Bids for this project are subject to the provisions of the Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 30B as amended. B. Minimum Wage Rates, as determined by the Commissioner of the Department of Labor and Industries, under the provisions of the Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 149, Sections 26 and 27G, as amended, apply to this project. The following will also apply M.G.L. Chapter 149, and 49A-44L. C. The successful bidder must comply with Chapter 151B as amended, of the Massachusetts General Laws and with the provisions of Executive Order No. 74, as amended by Executive Order No. 116 dated May 1, 1975 pertaining to Equal Opportunity Anti-Discrimination and Affirmative Action. A Performance Bond in the full amount of the contract will be required of the successful bidder. The City of Greenfield reserves the right to waive any informality in and to reject any or all proposals or to accept the proposal deemed most satisfactory to the owner, if it be in the public interest to do so. Bids: The Owner, in its sole judgment, may reject bids in which are incomplete, conditional, obscure or not responsive, or which contain additions not called for, erasures not properly initialed, alterations, or similar irregularities, or the Owner may waive such omissions, conditions, or irregularities. Right to Reject: The City of Greenfield reserves the right to reject any or all Bids wholly or in part; to waive technicalities and informalities; to amend and/or cancel bid prior to the time of opening; to make awards in a manner deemed best to the City; to correct any award erroneously made as a result of a clerical error on the part of the City. Execution ofAgreement: The Bidder whose bid is accepted will be notified by letter and agrees to duly execute the AGREEMENT, after notification, for a period ending as specified on bid proposal form. Comparison of Bids: Bids will be compared and awarded on the basis of each individual items unit price stated in the Bid. Cancellation of Agreement: The City reserves the right to revoke this contracted agreement in writing with two (2) weeks notice if the Contractor is clearly not performing service required in the Contract in a timely or workmanlike fashion. Right to Hire Additional Sweepers: The City of Greenfield has the right to hire additional sweepers to sweep if the Contractor cannot meet the deadlines for sweeping streets or parking lots. Bid Security: The Bid Security from the Contractor in the form of cash, certified check or treasurer's or cashier's check drawn upon a responsible bank in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts or a bid bond in the amount of five percent (5%) of the Bid shall be made payable to the City of Greenfield, Massachusetts and shall be enclosed with the Bid. Each such check may be held by the City as security for the fulfillment of the Bidder's agreements as hereinabove set forth and as set forth in the BID. Should the Bidder fail to fulfill such agreements, its bid check shall become the property of the City as liquidated damages; otherwise, the bid check shall be returned to the Bidder as hereinafter provided. Bid checks will be returned to all except the three lowest bidders within three days, Sundays and legal holidays excluded, after the opening of Bids, and to the three lowest bidders within three days, Sundays and legal holidays excluded, after the Owner and the accepted Bidder have executed the AGREEMENT. In the event that the AGREEMENT has not been executed by both the accepted Bidder and the Owner within 30 consecutive calendar days after the opening of bids, the bid check will be returned promptly upon demand of any bidder who has not been notified of the acceptance of its bid. None of the three lowest bids shall be deemed rejected, notwithstanding acceptance of any bid, until the AGREEMENT, has been executed by both the City and the accepted Bidder. The bid deposit must be enclosed in the sealed envelope containing the bid.