Site work for a water / sewer project in New Glarus, Wisconsin. Completed plans call for site work for a water / sewer project.

Contract A includes construction of a new 300,000-gallon precast, prestressed, concrete water storage reservoir (AWWA D 110 Type III) with appurtenances as described in bidding documents. Bidders must be pre-qualified with the Village of New Glarus within the last year or must be pre-qualified for this work 5 days prior to the bid deadline in accordance with Section 66.0901 of the Wisconsin Statutes. Each bidder must deposit, with his bid, security in the amount of 5% of the maximum bid amount. The Village of New Glarus reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to waive informalities in any bid. This project will be funded in part by USDA Rural Development and include funding from a U.S. EPA Community Grant for Congressionally Directed Spending. Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBE), including minority business enterprises (MBE) and women business enterprises (WBE) are encouraged to apply and be used to the greatest extent feasible. Qualified DBEs will be included in the Unified Certification Program WisDOT UCP list. Program policy requires all bidders to show good faith efforts to solicit proposals from DBEs. Good faith efforts include proper solicitation of these enterprises including bid advertisements and direct contact, and proper documentation of these efforts. Contractors with a DBE classification are strongly encouraged to bid as the Prime Contractor on this project provided they are qualified to do the work. Award of the contract will be subject to the Federal government's policy of good faith effort for increased use of DBE businesses. A description of the policy and forms to be used are included in the specifications. Section 746 of Title VII of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2017 (Division A - Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017) and subsequent statutes mandating domestic preference applies an American Iron and Steel requirement to this project. All listed iron and steel products used in this project must be produced in the United States. The term "iron and steel products" means the following products made primarily of iron or steel: lined or unlined pipes and fittings, manhole covers and other municipal castings, hydrants, tanks, flanges, pipe clamps and restraints, valves, structural steel, reinforced precast concrete, and iron and steel construction materials. It is the contractor's responsibility to provide compliance documentation. The following waivers apply to this Contract: De Minimis, Minor Components, Pig iron and direct reduced iron. Davis-Bacon wage rates will be required for all of Contract A, as described in the following section. Davis-Bacon wage rates will not apply to Contract B. Federal Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), The Offeror's or Bidder's attention is called to the "Equal Opportunity Clause" and the "Standard Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Construction Contract Specification" included in the specifications. The goals and timetables for minority and female participation, expressed in percentage terms for the Contractor's aggregate workforce in each trade on all construction work in the covered area, are as follows: o Goals for minority participation for each trade = 1.7% (Green County) o Goals for female participation in each trade = 6.9% The successful bidder will be required to conform to the wage requirements prescribed by the federal Davis-Bacon and Related Acts which requires that all laborers and mechanics employed by contractors and sub-contractors performing on contracts funded in whole or in part with federal funds in excess of $2,000 pay their laborers and mechanics not less than the prevailing wage rates and fringe benefits, as determined by the Secretary of Labor, for corresponding classes of laborers and mechanics employed on similar projects in the area, per the U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division May 29, 2009 Guidance. Question Deadline 04/02/2024 Bidder shall submit all questions about the meaning or intent of the Bidding Documents to Engineer in writing.