Site work for a civil project in Inverness, Florida. Completed plans call for site work for a water / sewer project.

Citrus County, Florida ("County") invites interested parties to submit a Bid/Quote for Holder Industrial Park Force Main Extension Construction Project to provide a wastewater line extension to serve an Industrial Park. The Holder Industrial Force Main project consists of the construction of a lift station, force main, HDPE HDD, HDPE force main, gravity manholes, and gravity sewer in Citrus County, Florida. The proposed lift station will serve a future industrial park. This project is grant funded through the Florida Job Growth Grant Funds from the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO). Section 119.071(3)(b) 1., Florida Statute, exempts building plans, blueprints, schematic drawings, and diagrams, including draft, preliminary, and final formats, which depict the internal layout and structural elements of a building, arena, stadium, water treatment facility, or other structure owned or operated by an agency are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution. Interested Contractors must notify the Purchasing Department, (emails are listed in the Contact section of this Invitation to Bid), to receive a confidentiality Affidavit, sign and return to the Purchasing Department and a link to the documents will be sent to your attention. Question Deadline 04/09/2025 at 4:00 PM ET Bidders may submit questions about the meaning or intent of the Invitation to Bid or Agreement to the website link in written format only and shall submit such on or before the deadline for questions listed in the Event Timeline. Board Approval of Selection and Award (subject to change) May 27, 2025. Successful Bidder shall commence ordering materials and equipment within ten (10) calendar days after receipt of a Purchase order and a Notice to Proceed from the County. Successful Bidder shall reach Substantial Completion within two hundred and ten (210) calendar days after start date set forth in the Notice to Proceed and shall reach Final Completion within two hundred and forty (240) calendar days after the start date set forth in the Notice to Proceed and/or Purchase Order issued by the County. According to the Grant Agreement with County, project work must commence on or before August 1, 2025, and all expenditures and close out of the Grant is December 30, 2026. If the Total Base Bid or lump sum should equal $100,000 or more, the Successful Bidder will be required to procure Payment and Performance Bonds, each in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of their Bid plus Alternate Pricing, for the faithful performance of the Contract. After Notice of Award and execution of an Agreement, Successful Bidder shall have ten (10) calendar days to provide Performance and Payment Bonds to County. Successful Bidder will be responsible for recording Payment and Performance Bonds in the public records of Citrus County. Once recorded, the Successful Bidder shall deliver to County a certified copy of the Bonds and a receipt from the Clerk of Court, confirming that the Bonds have been recorded. If the Work covered under this Invitation to Bid are not completed within the time allowed as stipulated herein, plus any extensions thereof, County could incur additional expenses. Since these expenses are difficult to prove in a legal proceeding to establish the actual loss suffered by County, instead of requiring any such proof, Bidder agrees that as liquidated damages for any delays (but not as a penalty) it shall pay County, one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500.00) for each day that expires after the time specified herein for completion. Sundays and legal holidays shall be excluded in determining days in default. Bidder shall not be charged with liquidated damages or any excess cost when the delay in completion of the Work is due to the following, and Bidder has promptly given written notice of such delay to County: (1) to any preference, priority or allocation order duly issued by County, or (2) to unforeseeable causes beyond the control and without the fault or negligence of Bidder, including but not restricted to, acts of God, or of the public enemy, acts of County, acts of another contractor in the performance of a contract for County, fires, floods, strikes, freight embargoes and abnormal and unforeseeable weather; and (3) to any delays of Subcontractor occasioned by any of the causes specified in (1) and (2) of this Section. County reserves the right to reject any and all proposed subcontractors listed by the Bidder and bears no responsibility or liability to the Bidder or its proposed subcontractors for any commitments made between them regarding the performance of the Work covered under this Invitation to Bid.