This is a service / maintenance or supply contract in Le Center, Minnesota. Contact the soliciting agency for additional information.

Sealed proposals for the construction, including the supply of necessary Labor. materials. and equipment of a rural telecommunications project Sealed proposals for the construction, including the supply of necessary labor, materials, and equipment, of a rural telecommunications project to be financed pursuant to a Loan Contract between Le Sueur County (hereinafter called the "Owner") and the United States of America by the Administrator of the Rural Utilities Service, dated N/A , N/A , (a copy of the Loan Contract may be examined at the office of the Owner) and to be known as Project Le Sueur County FTTH The project shall consist of the following miles Aerial: 0.00 miles ( 0.00 km); Buried: 12.69 miles ( 20.42 km); Underground: 0.00 miles ( 0.00 km) ; Conduit: 0.00 miles ( 0.00 km); Service Entrances 8.00 miles ( 12.87 km); Number of Service Entrances: Aerial 0; Buried 57 The number of cable placement operations used at any one time shall not exceed 2 The time for Completion of Construction of the Project shall be 45 calendar days excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays) from the contract commencement date. Liquidated damages in the amount of $2000.00 per da shall apply for each and every day that construction is delayed after giving effect to extensions of time as provided for in the contract. The Plans, Specifications, and Construction Sheets may be examined at the offices of the Owner or Engineer. Each set of Plans, Specifications and Construction Sheets will have a serial number, assigned by the Engineer, and the number of each set with the name of the purchasers will be recorded by the Engineer. Bids will be accepted only from original purchasers or from some other qualified Bidder to whom such a set has been transferred by the original purchaser with the approval of the Owner, at least forty-eight (48) hours prior to the Pre-Bid Conference Bidders shall file with the Engineer at least 5 days in advance of the scheduled Pre-Bid Conference, the Bidder's Qualifications. The Owner or Engineer will not release a set of Plans, Specifications, and Construction Sheets bearing a serial number to a bidder until after the Bidder's Qualifications have been approved by the Engineer on behalf of the Owner. Questions relating to Bidder's Qualifications shall be resolved prior to the Pre-Bid Conference. The Project, located in the following County(ies): Le Sueur County in the State(s) of Minnesota , all as more fully described in the Plans, Specifications, Construction Sheets, Maps, Special Drawings, and Description of Assembly Units therefore hereinafter referred to will consist of the following miles (km) of telecommunication lines and associated facilities: At the Pre-Bid Conference, qualified representatives of the Engineer and/or Owner, and Contractor will be prepared to discuss the project plans in detail including previous construction experience. They will also provide assistance to personnel of the Bidder for visiting existing representative cable routes and locations, if any, that may require special construction planning. All Bidders are required to attend the Pre-Bid Conference or furnish information to the satisfaction of the Engineer prior to the Pre-Bid Conference, that the Bidder, through prior visitation or previous construction work in the Area, has adequate familiarity with the site and plans for the project. The Owner reserves the right to confine its consideration of the several bids to one type of design regardless of alternate types of design which may be specified in the Plans and Specifications and offered in the Proposals. Each Proposal must be accompanied by a Bid Bond in the form attached or a certified check on a bank that is a member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, payable to the order of the Owner, in an amount equal to ten percent (10) of the maximum Bid price. The Owner reserves the right to reject any or all Proposals. The attention of Bidders is specially called to the desirability of a proper balance between prices for labor and materials and between the total prices for the respective Assembly Units. Lack of such balance may be considered as a reason for rejecting a Proposal.