This is a service / maintenance or supply contract in Somerville, New Jersey. Contact the soliciting agency for additional information.

Turf Maintenance Equipment Parts and Repairs It is the intent of this bid specification to establish the terms to provide Somerset County Park Commission and, hereafter referred to as owners with a two (2) year contract with a one (1) year extension, for Parts and Repairs for Turf Maintenance Equipment. This contract shall have primary and secondary vendor. Somerset County Park Commission maintains its own equipment at a County Park Commission facility; therefore, for County Park Commission purposes the private contractor will be utilized on an as needed basis. No guarantees are made for or implied for the total value of the contract for County only purposes. Awards will be made by line items. The vendor may bid on one or all line items. Original Equipment Manufactured shall hereafter be referred to as OEM. During the bid opening process, the bidders will be announced as well as bid amounts. Also, the bid tabulation will be posted, as always, online. Any Bid Addenda will be issued online, and processed in accordance with N.J.S.A. 40A:11-23(c)(1). All interested bidders should check online from now through bid opening. It is the sole responsibility of the respondent to be knowledgeable of all addenda related to this procurement. Bidders shall comply with the requirements of N.J.S.A. 10:5-31 and N.J.A.C. 17-27 et seq. Each bid shall be submitted on the proposal form attached, in a sealed envelope (1) Addressed to the Purchasing Agent (2) Bearing the name and address of the bidder on the outside (3) Clearly marked "BID" with the contract name and number being bid. Provide One (1) Original & One (1) copy of the bid. Faxed or emailed bids will NOT be accepted. It is the bidder's responsibility to ensure that bids are presented to the Purchasing Agent on the hour and at the place designated. Bids may be hand delivered or mailed; however, the Somerset County Park Commission disclaims any responsibility for bids forwarded by regular or express mail. If the bid is sent by express mail, the designation in B. above must also appear on the outside of the express company envelope. Bids received after the designated time and date will be returned unopened. Multiple Bids Not Accepted Question Deadline 01/24/2025 No oral interpretation of the meaning of the specifications will be made to any bidder. Every request for an interpretation shall be in writing, addressed to the Purchasing Agent, referencing the Contract Name and Contract Number in the subject line, at PurchasingDiv@co.somerset.nj.us. All interpretations, clarifications and any supplemental instructions will be in the form of written addenda to the specifications, and will be distributed to all prospective bidders METHOD OF CONTRACT AWARD A. The Somerset County Park Commission reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids, to waive identified irregularities and technicalities, and to award in whole or in part to the lowest responsible bidder, if it is in the best interest of the Somerset County Park Commission to do so. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any bid which is incomplete, obscure, or irregular may be rejected, any bid having erasures or corrections in the price sheet may be rejected; any bid in which unit prices are omitted, or in which unit/total prices are unbalanced, may be rejected; any bid accompanied by any insufficient or irregular certified check, cashier's check or bid bond may be rejected. B. The Somerset County Park Commission further reserves the right to award each item separately to the lowest responsible bidder meeting specifications or to make an award based on the total bid to the bidder whose total sum is the low bid meeting the specifications, whichever in the awarding authorities' opinion is in the best interest of the Somerset County Park Commission. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Somerset County Park Commission reserves the right to award a contract based on either option that may be described in the bid proposal or based on any combination thereof. C. The Somerset County Park Commission may also elect to award the contract on the basis of unit prices. D. The Somerset County Park Commission reserves the right to award equal or tie bids at their discretion to any one of the tie bidders. E. Should the bidder, to whom the contract is awarded, fail to enter into a contract within 10 days, the Somerset County Park Commission may then, at its option, accept the bid of the next lowest responsible bidder. F. The effective period of this contract will be two years unless otherwise noted in the specifications. Continuation of the terms of this contract beyond the fiscal year is contingent on availability of funds in the following year's budget. In the event of unavailability of such funds, the Somerset County Park Commission reserves the right to cancel this contract. G. The form of contract shall be submitted by the Somerset County Park Commission to the successful bidder. Terms of the specifications/bid package prevail. Bidder exceptions must be formally accepted by the Somerset County Park Commission; material exceptions shall not be approved. H. Government entities are not private business/consumer clients; therefore, separate company agreements are not honored. Terms of the specifications/bid package prevail unless otherwise noted by the vendor as exceptions. CAUSES FOR REJECTIONING BIDS Bids may be rejected for any of the following reasons: A. All bids pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40A:11-13.2; B. If more than one bid is received from an individual, firm or partnership, corporation or association under the same name; C. Multiple bids from an agent representing competing bidders; D. The bid is inappropriately unbalanced; E. If the successful bidder fails to enter into a contract within 21 days, Sundays and holidays excepted, or as otherwise agreed upon by the parties to the contract. In this case at its option, the Somerset County Park Commission may accept the bid of the next lowest responsible bidder. (N.J.S.A. 40A:11-24b)