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There is no bid depository safe available for mailing or hand delivering bids. The District will only accept bids electronically. Bids will be deemed non-responsive if not submitted using the project-specific online provided by the District with the bidding documents. Tenders are invited to furnish and deliver sodium bisulfite to various District treatment plants and facilities located throughout Cook County commencing five (5) calendar days after the mailing date of a purchase order, or January 1, 2025 whichever occurs later, and terminating twenty-four (24) 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 estimated cost of the work under this Contract is the following: Group A - Calumet Service Area: $1,605,200.00 Group B - North Service Area: $ 203,200.00 TOTAL FOR BOTH GROUPS: $1,808,400.00 Funding of all Contract items is subject to the Board of Commissioners' approval of the District's budget for all years under this Contract. The Contract is divided, for purposes of bidding, into two (2) Groups. Bidders may submit a bid for either or both Groups as set forth in the Proposal. When submitting a proposal, the Bidder must bid on every Item in that Group or the bid will be considered non-responsive. For any Group not bid, the Bidder shall insert "NO BID" in the appropriate place. The District reserves the right to issue a Purchase Order or Purchase Orders to any Bidder or Bidders for either or both Groups as it may deem to be in the best interest of the Water Reclamation District to do so. The Bid Deposit for This Proposal is $80,300.00 for Group a and/or $10,200.00 for Group B, or $90,500.00 for Both Groups Combined. Bidding documents are only available online, and all addenda issued for this contract will be available online. A copy of such addenda will also be emailed/faxed to each person which obtains 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. Question Deadline 10/29/2024 The District will only respond to questions received online. 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 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 Resident Engineer for this Contract is Mr. Adam Pulse. Mr. Pulse will provide online responses to online inquiries. 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.