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

Substation Equipment & Materials - 3 Years The City reserves the right to accept or reject any or all proposals. The deadline for questions is Monday, March 11, 2024 at 12:00 p.m. Responses to questions proposed will be answered within seven days, not including weekends or holidays. If required, a written response in the form of an addendum will be issued, bidders must review, sign and acknowledge the addendum and provide it with their proposal(s). No contact with the DEPARTMENT(S) shall be made during the bid/proposal process. Questions asked after the deadline are not guaranteed a response. BASIS OF AWARD (offer to contract) The City of Springfield intends to award a contract to the responsible bidder submitting the lowest responsive bid. Lowest price shall be determined using the Total Base Bid amount listed in the Offer to Contract. The City will review and make adjustments associated with arithmetic errors to ascertain whether the order of bids is correct. In the event of arithmetic errors in any of the line items, the unit price will be the controlling factor to correct the arithmetic error. The City will not assume that the error exists in the unit price. The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids or to waive any non-conformity in bids received whenever such rejection or waiver is in the best interest of the City. The City also reserves the right to reject the bid of a bidder who has previously failed to satisfactorily perform a contract, has not completed contracts on time, or whom investigation shows is not in a position to perform the contract. The City of Springfield reserves the right to award individual bids to more than one vendor if it is deemed to be in the best interest of the City. The City reserves the right to increase or decrease the contract quantity without penalty from the contractor to the City. BID WITHDRAWAL: No Bid shall be withdrawn for a period of 90 days after the opening of Bids without consent of OWNER Bid security in the form of a certified check or cashier's check payable to the City of Springfield, or a satisfactory bid bond, in the amount of Five Percent (5%) of the total bid must be included in the bid submittal.