Site work and paving for a road / highway in Grand Island, Nebraska. Completed plans call for site work for a road / highway; and for paving for a road / highway.

**As of July 18th, 2025, the project was awarded to o Hall Brothers, Inc, with an awarded amount of $55,477.80.* Project Category Code: Highway Preservation/Maintenance, Pavement Preservation Description: The contractor agrees to furnish all equipment, labor, material and supplies, etc. needed to complete the necessary work. SCOPE OF WORK 4.01 Intent of Plans and Specifications. The intent of the plans and specifications is to provide for the construction and completion of every detail of the work described therein. It shall be understood by the Contractor that Contractor will furnish all labor, materials, tools, transportation, and supplies required for all or any part of the work to make each item complete in accordance with the spirit of the contract. It is understood that the apparent silence of the specifications as to any detail or the apparent omission of a detailed description concerning any point shall be regarded as meaning that only the best general practice is to prevail and that only materials and workmanship of the first quality are to be used. For the purpose of design and the preparation of the Engineer's Estimate, the City requirements of the current Manual on Uniform Control Devices for Street and Highways. All such additional investigational work shall be performed without costing or obligating the City in any way. 4.02 Special Work. Any conditions not covered by these standard specifications are stated in the special provisions. 4.03 Increased or Decreased Quantities of Work. The Engineer reserves the right to alter the quantities of contract items for which there are bid prices. Such increases or decreases in quantities shall be made as the City considers necessary or desirable without waiving or invalidating any of the provisions of the contract. All such alterations must be ordered in writing and a supplemental agreement must be executed with the Contractor for the item or items involved when such alterations involve an increase or decrease of more than 20 percent of the total cost of the work of any group of the contract calculated from the original bid quantities and the contract unit prices. The Contractor shall not start work on any alteration requiring a supplemental agreement until the agreement setting forth an equitable adjustment of compensation, satisfactory to both parties, shall have been executed by the Engineer and the Contractor and approved by City Council. Revised 1-25-2011 4.04 Extra Work. The City reserves the right to order the performance of work of a class not contemplated in the bid but which may be considered necessary to complete satisfactorily the work included in the contract. Such extra work will be paid for as provided in these specifications under section entitled Payment for Extra Work. 4.05 Maintenance of Detours. Unless so required by the plans or the special provisions, the Contractor will not be required to assume any responsibility in connection with the maintenance or marking of suitable detours. 4.06 Temporary Traffic Control. Part VI of the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) is the national standard for work zone traffic control. The current version that has been adopted by the Nebraska Department of Roads is also applicable to the City of Grand Island and shall be followed. Any City crews, contractors, utility company, or any other person, firm or corporation performing work within the right-of-way of any public street, public way, or alley in the City of Grand Island shall install and maintain Temporary Traffic Control (TTC) in accordance with the standards of the MUTCD. The Public Works Director or their representative shall have the authority to direct corrective actions for any TTC not in compliance with the MUTCD and these provisions. These actions may include suspending operations and requiring removal of all equipment or materials from the right-of-way. If the TTC is left in place longer than four (4) hours and no personnel are on the site, the individual responsible for installing the TTC shall provide telephone numbers of personnel who will be available on a 24 hours per day, seven days per week basis to the Public Works Director. These individuals shall be responsible for repair, correction, replacement and maintenance of the traffic control devices. These individuals shall perform inspections of the TTC at the site a minimum of twice during the day and once during the night every day until the work is completed and the right-of-way is cleared. Subsidiary: Unless contract pay items are included with the bid specifications, direct payment for providing, installing, maintaining, and performing site inspections of TTC devices will not be made but are considered subsidiary to other items for which direct payment is provided. When the contract contains a pay item for TTC, the NDOR standard items, specifications, etc. will be used. Revised 1-25-2011 4.07 Maintenance of Traffic. The Contractor shall conduct the work so as to interfere as little as possible with public travel, whether vehicular or pedestrian. Whenever it is necessary to cross, obstruct, or close roads, driveways, and walks, whether public or private, the Contractor shall, at Contractors expense, provide and maintain suitable and safe bridges, detours, or other temporary expedients for the accommodation of public and private travel, and shall give reasonable notice to owners of private drives before interfering with them. Such maintenance of travel will not be required when the Contractor has obtained permission from the owner or tenant of private property or from the authority having jurisdiction over public property involved to obstruct traffic at the designated area. 4.08 Street Closing. In the event it is deemed necessary for the Contractor to close any streets during the execution of said work, the Contractor shall notify the owner of such street closing 72 hours in advance, prior to any street closing due to open cut street crossing. 4.09 Miscellaneous Removal Items. The Contractor shall inform the Engineer sufficiently ahead of construction so landowners can be notified to remove small trees, shrubs, and fences from the construction limits if the landowners desire to save them. 4.10 Removal and Replacement of Property Stakes. If it is necessary to remove any property corners or markers during construction operations, the Contractor shall notify the Engineer so the Engineer can establish reference ties. Any markers removed without notice to the Engineer shall be replaced at the Contractor's expense in accordance with the proper land surveying techniques. 4.11 Removal and Disposal of Structures and Obstructions. The Contractor for bridge and culvert work shall remove any existing structure or part of structure that in any way interferes with the new construction. If specific payment for such work has not been provided in the contract, it will be paid for as extra work. The Contractor shall remove any materials or structures found on the right-of-way which are not to remain in place or which have not been designated for use in the new construction. The removal and disposal of pipe culverts will not be paid for directly but shall be considered as incidental work, and the cost of such removal and disposal shall be considered to be included in the contract price for other items. Pipe culverts shall be removed by methods that will cause a minimum of damage to the pipe culverts. The removal and disposal of bridges or other masonry or monolithic concrete construction will be paid for. If the contract does not contain an item for such work, it will be paid for as extra work. 4.12 Rights In and Use of Materials Found on the Right-of-way. Unless stated to the contrary in the contract documents, all materials, such as stone, gravel, sand, timber, and structures or parts of structures, found on the right-of-way of the street or on land acquired for the work, are the property of the City or the owner of the fee title to the land, and shall not be used or destroyed by the Contractor without special permission from the Engineer. When the Contractor is permitted to use materials found on the right-of-way, any excavations that they make below the grade elevation shall be backfilled with other suitable materials so the finished street will conform to the grade shown on the plans. No extra compensation will be allowed for such backfilling. may perform a reasonable amount of exploratory work to gain information relative to surface and subsurface conditions relating to type of soil, moisture content, and types and extent of rock strata. This information when shown on the plan represents to the best of the City's knowledge conditions as of the date the survey was made. The appearance of this information on the plan will not constitute a guarantee that conditions other than those indicated will not be encountered at the time of construction. The bidder may utilize this information as they see fit. Any bidder interested in the work is authorized to make whatever investigation they considers advisable. In making such additional investigation, the bidder is directed to the Engineer for information relating to available right-of-way. If there are, at that time, any parcels of land over which the City does not have jurisdiction, right of entry must be secured by the prospective bidder from those authorized to grant such permission. Investigational work, performed by a prospective bidder on existing streets open to traffic, shall be performed in compliance with the