Site work for a water / sewer project in Centralia, Missouri. Completed plans call for site work for a water / sewer project.

The City of Centralia, Missouri is seeking bids from qualified contractors for Cure-in-Place Sewer Main Lining. This project is funded through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), and the selected contractor must comply with all applicable federal, state, and local requirements. Project Contact: Director of Public Works & Utilities - Matthew Rusch Water/Sewer Foreman - Aaron Kroeger Email: mrusch@centraliamo.gov, Email: citywater@centraliamo.gov , Office #: 573-682-2139 Project Location: Various locations within city limits of Centralia Centralia, MO 65240 Bid will consist of providing the labor, material, and equipment for the installation and construction of the following: The intent of the project is to provide the City of Centralia with a "Toolbox" of maintenance and evaluation methods for sewer rehabilitation, evaluation, and/or eliminating groundwater inflow and infiltration into the City's collection system. The services shall include but not be limited to cleaning, CCTV Inspection, and annual evaluation and analysis of the sewer system for future rehab planning. The City may also use smoke testing and manhole inspections for further evaluation of the system. Rehabilitation tools may include CIPP, manhole rehabilitation by cementitious coating, chemical injection grouting, Cured-In-Place-Manhole (CIPM) liners or a combination thereof. Other rehabilitation services may include chemical grouting of pipe joints and lateral connections. It is the City's intent to issue an annual purchase order based on the unit prices in this contract for approximately $400,000.00, pending yearly budget approval by the City Council. The City will provide a written scope of work for each individual purchase order. Each scope issued may not include all the items listed in this bid. The City does anticipate cleaning, CCTV inspections, and CIPP work to be a service requested each year. Services shall also include data reports in Access and/or Excel format, that shall allow the City to parse the data provided by the Contractor/Bidder by diameter, type pipe, type and severity of defect, priority of completion, etc. Said report(s) shall also include pertinent information regarding the project, a detailed analysis per line segment of CCTV inspection done that includes severity ratings, likelihood of failure, and indices for both structural and operation and maintenance severity ratings. It must include a summary of all totals noted on the CCTV project, including active and defective taps, likely point repairs, manholes that should be raised to grade, etc. with a budgetary format with estimated unit prices included. It should be further noted that said analysis and reports shall be the basis for future rehabilitation work on the sanitary system and are a critical component of the Contractor's successful bid. All reports and deliverables (at project end), shall be per NASSCO PACP codes and standards. Quantities and Award: The quantities indicated in the bid schedule are only to establish low bidders for each section and/or total contract and do not represent anticipated quantities and are not purchased hereby, nor is the City obligated in any way to purchase the quantities shown. The intent of the bid schedule is to establish unit prices from the bidder(s) in each section to be used on future purchase orders. The right is reserved to exceed or diminish these quantities in future purchase orders or to omit any one or more items as desired. The items listed in the bid schedule are split into sections by type of service (e.g. CIPP by diameter, liner thickness, etc.). Each section may be awarded separately to the lowest responsive/responsible bidder, but the City's desire is to account for all facets of a Contractor's bid (price, specific experience, expertise, range of services, qualifications, etc.) and award as few separate contracts (if any) as is feasible and/or is in the City's best interest. Additionally, the City reserves the right to award each particular service to a different bidder each purchase order if responsiveness/responsibility issues with the exist. Compliance with Contract Provisions: The Bidder, having examined and being familiar with the local conditions affecting the work, and with the contract, contract documents, including the specifications as published with this bid, revisions and addenda that may be published, hereby proposes to furnish all labor, materials, services, etc. required for the performance and completion of the work. Prevailing Wage: Contractor will be required to furnish an affidavit of compliance to the City of Centralia stating that he had paid the prevailing wages as set forth in Missouri State Wage Determination and fully complied with the provisions and requirements of the Missouri State Prevailing Wage Law, when federal wage rates are applicable and included. See attached Missouri Division of Labor Standards Annual Wage Order. Anti-Discrimination: The contractor shall accept as his operation policy the following statement, or one of equal coverage, which is designed to further the provision of equal employment opportunity to all persons without regard to their race, color, religion, sex or national origin, and to promote the full realization of equal employment opportunity through a positive continuing program: "It is the policy of this Company to assure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, religion, sex, color, or national origin. Such action shall include: Employment, upgrading, demotion, or transfer, recruitment or recruitment advertising; layoff or termination; rates of pay or other forms of compensation; and selection for training, including apprenticeship, preapprenticeship, and/or on-the-job training." Purchase of American Made Products: The City of Centralia supports the purchase of American made products. Bidders are hereby notified that the City of Centralia shall adhere to the following policy: a) Where the cost of an individual product exceeds $500.00, preference will be given to products manufactured, assembled or produced in the United States when the quality and price are comparable with other goods. b) Every contract for public works construction or maintenance in excess of $1,000 shall contain a provision to use American products in the performance of the contract whenever the quality and price are comparable with other goods. Withdrawal of Bids: Any bidder may withdraw his bid at any time prior to the scheduled time for termination of the bidding. No bidder may withdraw his bid for a period of thirty (30) days after the scheduled time for termination of bidding. Rejection of Bids: The owner reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive any informalities in the bidding. The owner does not obligate himself to accept the lowest or any other bid nor to award or make the purchase in any definite time. Sales/Use Tax Exemption: City will provide the contractor, when requested to do so, with a completed Missouri Project Exemption Certificate and Missouri Tax Exemption letter for the City of Centralia, Missouri and the contractor shall be responsible for furnishing the exemption certificate and tax exemption letter to all authorized sub-contractors and suppliers providing materials incorporated in the work. Itemized Bid: The unit bid prices submitted by the awarded Contractor shall become an attachment to the Contract Agreement. The owner is not liable for any costs incurred prior to the issuance of the Contract Agreement. The bidder should complete the following Itemized Bid Proposal. A unit price shall be submitted for each bid item, in each section set forth in the proposal. Unit prices for future purchase orders shall be the same as the unit prices submitted for the same items included in the this Bid Proposal. The quantities indicated in the bid schedule are only to establish low bidders for each section and do not represent anticipated quantities and are not purchased hereby, nor is the City obligated in any way to purchase the quantities shown. The bidder proposes to furnish all labor, materials, equipment, services, etc. required for the performance and completion of the work for future purchase orders with the submitted unit prices, as follows: Technical Specifications: Contractors shall submit technical specifications for each bid item with their bid. These specifications will be evaluated by the City of Centralia to determine the most responsive and responsible bidder. It shall be understood the specifications submitted with this bid becomes a part of the contract upon its signing and that failing to comply with any part of this bid will be taken as a failure to comply with said specifications and will be just cause for rejection of work. The City knows that protruding laterals and other blockages exist and has therefore asked for heavy and light cleaning bids for CCTV Inspection and Pipe Cleaning. Bidder must define heavy and light cleaning as it relates to remediating protruding laterals, roots, and other blockages to the extent required to accommodate the CCTV inspections and cleaning equipment. CIPP bids shall include pre-cleaning and inspection work. The work required to remove root masses, debris, protruding laterals, or other blockages from the conduit shall be encumbered in each pipe size CIPP lining price. Additionally, the contractor shall provide a sample report of the deliverables required by the City with its bid. This/these report(s) shall be in Access and/or Excel format, that shall allow the City to parse the data by the Contractor/Bidder by diameter, type pipe, type and severity of defect, priority of completion, etc. Said sample report(s) shall also include pertinent information regarding the project, a detailed analysis per line segment of CCTV inspection done that includes severity ratings, likelihood of failure, and indices for both structural and operation and maintenance severity ratings. The sample report(s) further must include a summary of all totals noted on the CCTV project, including active and defective taps, likely point repairs, manholes that should be raised to grade, etc. with a budgetary format with estimated unit prices included. It should be further noted that said analysis and reports shall be the basis for future rehabilitation work on the sanitary system and are a critical component of the Contractor's successful bid. All reports and deliverables (at project end), and samples provided thereof, shall be per NASSCO PACP codes and standards. For questions regarding this RFB, contact: Matthew Rusch - Director of Public Works & Utilities Email: mrusch@centraliamo.gov Aaron Kroeger - Water/Sewer Foreman Email: citywater@centraliamo.gov Office #: 573-682-2139. 11. BIDS TO REMAIN SUBJECT TO ACCEPTANCE: A. All bids will remain subject to acceptance for sixty (60) days after the day of the bid opening, but the City may, in its sole discretion, release any bid and return the bid security prior to that date. 12. AWARD OF CONTRACT: A. The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids to waive any and all informalities not involving price, time or changes in the work and to negotiate contract terms with the successful bidder, and the right to disregard all nonconforming, nonresponsive, unbalance or conditional bids. Also, the City reserves the right to reject the bid of any bidder it believes would not be in the best interest of the City to make an award to that bidder, whether because the bid is not responsive or the bidder is unqualified or of doubtful financial ability or fails to meet any other pertinent standard or criteria established by the Administrator. Discrepancies between the indicated sum of any column of figures and the correct sum thereof will be resolved in favor of the correct sum. B. In evaluating bids, the Administrator will consider, the qualifications of the bidders, whether or not the bids comply with the prescribed requirements, and such alternates, unit prices and other data, as may be requested in the bid form or prior to the Notice of Award. C. In addition, the Administrator may consider the qualifications and experience of any subcontractors, suppliers, or other persons or organizations proposed for those portions of the work as to which the identity of subcontractors, suppliers, or other persons or organizations must be submitted as provided in the supplementary conditions. The Administrator may also consider the operating costs, maintenance requirements, performance data and guarantees of major items of materials and equipment proposed for incorporation in the work when such data is required to be submitted prior to the Notice of Award. D. The Administrator may conduct such investigations as deemed necessary to assist in the evaluation of any bid and to establish the responsibility, qualifications, and financial ability of bidders, proposed subcontractors, suppliers and other persons an organizations to perform and furnish the work in accordance with the contract documents to City's satisfaction within the prescribed time. E. If the contract for this project is to be awarded, it will be awarded on the basis of the bid(s) with the lowest total bid, from the lowest responsive, responsible, qualified bidder whose evaluation indicates to the City that the award will be in the best interest of the project and the City. BID SECURITY: NO BID SECURITY REQUIRED FOR THIS BID A. Each bid must be accompanied by bid security made payable to the City of Centralia for 5 percent of the total amount of the bid. A certified or bank check may be used in lieu of a Bid Bond. B. The Bid security of the successful bidder will be retained until such bidder has executed the agreement and furnished the required contract security, whereupon the bid security will be returned. If the successful bidder fails to execute and deliver the agreement and furnish the required contract security within ten (10) days after the Notice of Award, the City may annul the Notice of Award and the bid security of that bidder will be forfeited.