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

Tenders are invited to furnish and deliver ferric chloride to the Stickney Water Reclamation Plant and Calumet Water Reclamation Plant, beginning five (5) calendar days after the mailing date of a purchase order and terminating thirteen (13) months thereafter, or upon expenditure of available funds, whichever occurs sooner. All deliveries shall be completed in accordance with the "Time" section of the Detail Specifications. The Contract is divided, for purposes of bidding, into four (4) Items. Bidders must submit bids for all four (4) Items or the bid will be rejected as non-responsive. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District intends to issue two (2) purchase orders to one (1) Contractor for all of the material to be furnished under this Contract. The estimated cost of this Contract is $11,798,000.00. The bid deposit for this Contract is $472,000.00. Each Proposal must be accompanied by a bid deposit in the form of a bid bond. Please see page P-4 in the Contract Documents for additional information Failure to submit the required documents as specified may render the bid non-responsive and the bid may be rejected. Further, the District assumes no liability or responsibility for the failure or inability of any Bidder to successfully download any and all contract documents, including but not limited to specifications, proposal forms and/or plans, as a result of any type of technological computer and/or software system failure or breakdown that restricts, prohibits or prevents successful downloading of any and all District contract documents by the Bidder, whether caused by the District or other parties, directly or indirectly. Document notes: Bidding documents are only available online, and all addenda issued for this contract will be available online at the District's website, The path is as follows: Doing Business Procurement and Materials Management Contract Announcements. A copy of such addenda will also be emailed/faxed to each person which downloads a set of such contract documents. Bidder shall acknowledge receipt of each addendum issued in the space provided on Proposal signature page or submit a signed copy of each addendum with the Bidder's Proposal at the time and date set to receive bids. Oral explanations will not be binding. Any Proposal which indicates multiple or alternate bids will be deemed non-responsive and will be rejected by the Director of Procurement and Materials Management. If any potential Bidder contemplating to submit a proposal is in doubt as to the true meaning of any part of the specifications or other contract documents, such inquiry should be submitted online at the District's website. The path is as follows: Doing Business Procurement and Materials Management Contract Announcements. The District will provide an online response to such inquiries, as the District deems appropriate. Strings of appropriate questions and answers regarding the bidding documents will be available online on the District's website until the bid opening date of the bidding documents. No questions will be accepted by telephone, fax, email, mail, or any other such form of delivery The District will only respond to questions received online up to ONE WEEK prior to the bid opening date of the bidding documents. The District will not respond to questions received after this date. The District does not guarantee the timeliness of responses provided online, nor does the District guarantee that such responses will be provided in adequate time to affect the submission of bids. The District shall provide responses online ONLY if the responses do not interpret or otherwise change the bidding documents The District's responses online are NOT official responses and, therefore, are not binding to the bidding documents. Any official interpretation or change to the bidding documents will be made only by addenda duly issued to all plan holders on record by the Director of Procurement and Materials Management. Failure on the part of the prospective Bidder to receive a written interpretation prior to the time of the opening of bids will not be grounds for withdrawal of proposal. The contact person for this contract is Mr. Adam Pulse. Mr. Pulse will provide online responses to online inquiries. Bidders are STRONGLY URGED to inspect all areas of the work sites prior to bidding, in order to familiarize themselves with the nature of the work and the method of accomplishing the same. To schedule an appointment to inspect the work sites, prospective Bidders may contact the Resident Engineer, Mr. Adam Pulse, at (773)256-3580, between the hours of 7:00 A.M. and 2:00 P.M., Monday through Friday. Bidders shall take special note of the stipulations on page G-4, under Interpretation of Contract Documents, in regards to questions on this Contract. It is the responsibility of the Contractor to verify the applicability of the Prevailing Wage Act to this Contract with the Illinois Department of Labor. In the event the Illinois Department of Labor (IDOL) indicates the Prevailing Wage Act is not applicable to the work to be performed under this Contract, then a copy of IDOL's written indication of this determination must accompany the Contractor's initial request for payment. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago reserves the right to reject any or all Proposals