Site work for a water / sewer project in Chicago, Illinois. Completed plans call for site work for a water / sewer project.

Manhole and Infrastructure Repairs The District Will Only Accept Bids Electronically. Bid Depository Safe Available for Mailing or Hand Delivering Bids. Tenders are invited to furnish all necessary labor, supervision, tools, equipment, materials and appurtenances, including transportation, necessary to repair, restore, replace, and maintain manholes and sewer infrastructure, including but not limited to, storm water reservoirs and associated flood control infrastructure located within the District's service area for a period of thirty-six (36) months. Work shall start upon approval of the contractor's bond. The estimated cost of the work under this Contract is not to exceed $1,200,000.00. 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 eighteen (18) Items. Bidders must submit a bid for all eighteen (18) Items, or the bid will be rejected as nonresponsive. The District intends to award one (1) Contract to one (1) Bidder for all the work to be performed. There is no bid deposit for this Contract. A contractor's bond will be required. Please refer to the CONTRACTOR'S BOND section in the Agreement for additional information about this requirement. Each Bidder must submit with their proposals a signed and completed MBE/WBE Utilization Plan which lists each business intended to be used as an MBE and/or WBE on pages UP-2 and UP-3 and supplemental pages as necessary. The Bidder must sign the Signature Section page on UP-4. Failure to submit a signed MBE/WBE Utilization Plan will result in a bid being deemed non-responsive and the bid will be rejected. Also, if a Waiver is sought, the Bidder is required to sign pages UP-4 and UP5, which are the Signature Section and the Waiver Request Form; failure to do so will be viewed as non-responsive and the bid will be rejected. Each Bidder must submit with their bid package an original or facsimile copy of the MBE/WBE Subcontractor's Letter of Intent, page UP-6 for each subcontractor listed on their MBE/WBE Utilization Plan. The submitted MBE/WBE Subcontractor's Letter of Intent must be completed and signed by the subcontractor and accompanied with a copy of the subcontractor's current Letter of Certification from a state, local government or agency or documentation demonstrating that the subcontractor is a MBE or WBE within the meaning of the Affirmative Action Ordinance, Revised Appendix D. Failure to submit the MBE/WBE Utilization Plan signed by the Bidder at the time of the bid opening and the MBE/WBE Subcontractor's Letter of Intent signed by each MBE and WBE will be viewed as non-responsive and the bid will be rejected. The work under this Contract is classified as "Miscellaneous Building Construction" for the Minority-owned Business Enterprises (MBE), Women-owned Business Enterprises (WBE), and Veteran Business Enterprise (VBE) Utilization goals contained in the Affirmative Action Ordinance Revised Appendix D. The associated utilization goals for this Contract are 17% MBE, 6% WBE, and 3% VBE. Should you have any questions, please contact the Diversity Office at 312-751-4035. 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. No questions will be accepted by telephone, fax, email, mail, or any other such form of delivery. There will be a Q&A session at the end of the meeting. Also, Bidders must give their contact information in order to register for the conference, prior to entering the Zoom Pre-Bid meeting. In addition to being able to raise questions at this Voluntary Technical Pre-Bid Conference, all Bidders are hereby reminded they may raise questions to the District's Question and Answer Board, online 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. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago reserves the right to reject any or all Proposals. Question Deadline 02/18/2025. The District will only respond to questions received online up to ONE (1) 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.