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

Question Deadline 02/05/2025 at 2:00 PM PT Contact Raquel Cobarrubias by fax (209) 468-3249 or by Email: rcobarrubias@sjgov.org with any questions or requests for additional information. COMPARISON OF BIDS: Award, if any, will be made to the vendor(s) offering equipment, price, service, delivery and support deemed to be to the best advantage of the County of San Joaquin. The County Purchasing Agent shall be the sole judge in making this determination. The County of San Joaquin has a 5% local vendor preference. If the low bid is not a local vendor, any responsive local vendor who submitted a bid that was within 5% of the lowest bid has the option to submit a new bid. The local vendor will be awarded if the new bid is in an amount less than or equal to the lowest responsive bid. To qualify for this Local Vendor Preference, the "Local Vendor Preference Certification" page, included in this solicitation, must be signed and accompany each bid submittal. BASIS FOR SELECTION AND CONDITIONS: The responsiveness, competency and responsibility of bidders and of their proposed subcontractors will be considered in making the award of contract. Any bidder before being awarded a contract may be required to furnish evidence satisfactory to the County that bidder and their proposed subcontractors have sufficient means and experience in the type of work called for to assure completion of the contract in a satisfactory manner. The County reserves the right to reject the bid of any bidders as not responsible and not qualified to do the particular work under consideration who have previously failed to perform properly or to complete on time contracts with the County of a nature similar to this project. Other factors that may be considered by the County to determine a responsible bid and the overall capability of the bidder to satisfactorily complete the work under consideration may include, but are not limited to: insufficient experience, experience on other public projects, experience doing the same type of work, length of tenure and capacity with bonding or insurance company, financial stability, and whether a bidder has been terminated on other projects. A responsive bid is one that meets all terms, conditions, and specifications of the bid. The bid must comply with the content requirements of the bid documents. The bidder must perform and do what the bid documents and contract required and said they must do, whether it be pricing in a certain way, attending a mandatory pre-bid conference, providing bonds, etc. Other examples where a bid might be declared and found to be non responsive include: o Bid is substantially incomplete o Bid is not signed o Bid is delivered late o No acknowledgement of critical addenda o Significant discrepancies appear in the response A responsive bid conforms to bid specifications. However, a bid which substantially conforms, though not strictly responsive, to a call for bids may be accepted if the variance cannot have affected the amount of the bid or given a bidder an advantage or benefit not allowed other bidders or, in other words, if the variance is inconsequential. The County reserves the right to reject any and all bids or alternatives and waive any informality or irregularity in the bids or in the bidding, and to determine responsiveness and responsibility of bidder, including but not limited to those areas mentioned above.