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

The Town of Colchester is soliciting bids for snow and ice control services at its four schools. The bid is presented with two primary options with both having two suboptions: Option 1 - Each school site - on a per storm price A rate per storm for snow removal and application of salt Sub-option A - Contractor to supply the treated salt Sub-option B - Contractor to use Town-supplied treated salt Option 2 - Each / All school sites - on a fixed total season price A rate per school for a total season price for snow removal and application of salt - all storms and Icing Conditions-Refreezing, etc. Sub-option A - Contractor to supply the treated salt Sub-option B - Contractor to use Town-supplied treated salt A Snow Storm is defined as: All accumulation resulting from the effects of a named storm counts as one occasion. In the cases where the ice or snow event is too insignificant to receive a name, a storm occasion will be defined as a continuous ice and/or snow event depositing 1 inch or more, with a break in the precipitation of no more than six (6) hours. For the purposes of comparing bids, the following information regarding number of storms, ice conditions requiring response, and the number of light snow events of less than 1 in. and checks requiring responses for the past three seasons are listed below: Year Storms > 1" Ice/Dustings/Checks Total 2021-2022 9 6 15 2022-2023 3 9 12 2023-2024 2 3 5 The bid gives the prospective bidders the opportunity to bid on one, two, or three years on either or both options. Prospective bidders, at their discretion, may bid on any one or all of the No oral interpretation will be made to any bidder as to the meaning of the Contract Documents or any part thereof. Every request for such an interpretation shall be made in writing to the Town of Colchester. Any inquiry received seven or more days prior to the date fixed for opening of bids will be given consideration. Every interpretation made to a bidder will be in the form of an Addendum to the Contract Documents, and when issued will be on file in the office of the First Selectman at least five days before Bids are opened. In addition, all Addenda will be mailed to each person to whom Contract Documents have been issued, but it shall be the Bidder's responsibility to make inquiry as to, and to obtain, the Addenda issued, if any. All such Addenda shall become part of Contract and each Bidder shall be bound by such Addenda, whether or not received by the Bidder Any questions concerning this bid may be answered by contacting Joseph Leone, Public Works Director at (860) 537-7288. Each Bidder should visit the site of the proposed work and fully acquaint him/herself with the existing conditions there, and should fully inform him/herself as to the facilities involved, the difficulties and restrictions attending the performance of the Contract. The Bidder should thoroughly examine and familiarize him/herself with the attached Specifications and all other Contract Documents. The Contractor by the execution of the Contract shall in no way be relieved of any obligation under it due to his/her failure to receive or examine any form or legal instrument or to visit the site and acquaint him/herself with the conditions there existing and the Town of Colchester will reject any claim based on the facts regarding which he/she should have been on notice. No right shall accrue to any person submitting a bid until such bids have been accepted and contract awarded in writing by the duly authorized representative of the Colchester Board of Selectmen. The Colchester Board of Selectmen reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to make such awards, including acceptance of other than the lowest bid, and to waive any informalities, omissions, excess verbiage, or technical defects in the Bidding, if, in the opinion of the Board of Selectmen, it would be in the best interest of the Town of Colchester to do so.