FURNISHING AND DELIVERING POLYMER

Location:	Illinois
Posted:	May 12, 2026
Due:	May 19, 2026
Agency:	METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO
Type of Government:	State & Local
Category:	71 - Furniture
Solicitation No:	26-633-11
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NOTICE

INVITATION TO BID

METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO

FOR

FURNISHING AND DELIVERING POLYMER

CONTRACT 26-633-11

PROPOSALS ARE DUE MAY 19, 2026

Sealed proposals, endorsed as above, will be submitted to the Metropolitan Water

Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (District) via an electronic upload to the Euna

Portal only, from the date of the Invitation to Bid, up to 11:00 A.M. Central Time (CT), on

the bid opening date, and will be opened publicly by the Director of Procurement and

Materials Management or her designee at 11:00 A.M. CT on May 19, 2026. The public

cannot attend but can view the bid opening at https://mwrd.org/bid-opening/.

No bids will be accepted after 11:00 A.M. CT on the above scheduled bid opening

date. All bids faxed, mailed, emailed, or hand delivered will not be considered and

will be returned to the Bidder. There is no bid depository safe available for mailing

or hand delivering bids. The District will only accept bids electronically uploaded

to the Euna portal (please see instructions on how to upload the bid response on

pages Euna-1 and Euna-2). Please see specific instructions on how to upload your

bid to the Euna portal in the bid document entitled “Submission via the Euna

Portal.” The Euna link is unique to each solicitation. Bids will be deemed non-

responsive if not submitted using the project-specific Euna URL link provided by

the District with the bidding documents.

Tenders are invited to furnish and deliver polymer, as specified, at the Stickney, Calumet,

and Egan Water Reclamation Plants (WRPs), commencing five (5) calendar days after

the mailing/emailing date of a purchase order, and terminating thirty-six (36) months

thereafter, or upon the expenditure of available funds, whichever occurs sooner.

The Contract is divided, for the purposes of bidding, into two (2) Groups. Bidders

may submit bids for any Group or combination of Groups as set forth in the Bid

Pricing Spreadsheet. For any Group not bid, the Bidder shall select “NO BID” in the

appropriate place on the Bid Pricing Spreadsheet. The District reserves the right to

issue a Purchase Order or Purchase Orders to any Bidder or Bidders for any Group

or combination of Groups as it may deem to be in its best interest. When bidding

on any Group, Bidders must submit bids for all Items in that Group or the Bid will

be rejected as non-responsive.

The estimated cost of the work under this Contract is $39,266,980.00.

The bid deposit for this contract is $600,000.00.

Each Proposal must be accompanied by a bid deposit in the form of a bid bond. Please

reference page P-3 in these Contract Documents for additional information.

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Funding of all Contract items is subject to the Board of Commissioners’ approval of the

District’s budget for all years under this Contract.

Specifications, proposal forms and/or plans may be obtained from the Department of

Procurement and Materials Management by downloading online from the District's

website at www.mwrd.org (Doing Business  Procurement & Materials Management 

Contract Announcements). No fee is required for the Contract Documents. Any questions

regarding the downloading of the Contract Document should be directed to the following

email: contractdesk@mwrd.org or call 312-751-6643.

The District assumes no liability or responsibility for the failure or inability of any Bidder

to successfully download any and all Contract documents, including but not limited to

specifications, proposal forms and/or plans, as a result of any type of technological

computer and/or software system failure or breakdown that restricts, prohibits or prevents

successful downloading of any and all District Contract documents by the Bidder, whether

caused by the District or other parties, directly or indirectly.

If any potential Bidder contemplating to submit a proposal is in doubt as to the true

meaning of any part of the specifications or other Contract documents, such inquiry

should be submitted online at the District’s website, www.mwrd.org. The path is as

follows: Doing Business  Procurement and Materials Management  Contract

Announcements  (Find correct project)  Ask a Question. 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 on the District’s website until the bid opening date of the bidding documents. No

questions will be accepted by telephone, fax, email, mail, or any other such form of

delivery.

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.

The District’s responses online are NOT official responses and, therefore, are not binding

to the bidding documents. Any official interpretation or change to the bidding documents

will be made only by addenda duly issued to all plan holders on record by the Director of

Procurement and Materials Management.

Bidding documents are only available online, and all addenda issued for this Contract will

be available online at the District’s website, www.mwrd.org. The path is as follows: Doing

Business  Procurement and Materials Management  Contract Announcements. A

copy of such addenda will also be emailed/faxed to each person which downloads a set

of such Contract documents.

Bidders shall acknowledge receipt of each addendum issued in the space provided on

the proposal signature page or submit a signed copy of each addendum with the Bidder’s

proposal at the time and date set to receive bids.

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Failure on the part of the prospective Bidder to receive a written interpretation prior to the

time of the opening of bids will not be grounds for withdrawal of proposal.

The Resident Engineer for this Contract is Mr. Thomas Sinickas. Mr. Sinickas will provide

online responses to online inquiries.

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. To schedule an appointment to inspect the work sites,

prospective Bidders may contact the Resident Engineer, Mr. Thomas Sinickas, at

sinickast2@mwrd.org, and at (708) 588-4158, between the hours of 8:00 A.M. and 3:00

P.M., Monday through Friday.

Bidders are hereby cautioned that no questions will be taken during any of the site

inspections. As noted above: Bidders are reminded they may instead raise questions to

the District’s Question and Answer Board, online at the District’s website, at

www.mwrd.org. The path is as follows: Doing Business  Procurement and Materials

Management  Contract Announcements  (Find correct project)  Ask a Question.

Bidders shall take special note of the stipulations on page G-4, under Interpretation of

Contract Documents, in regards to questions on this Contract.

The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago reserves the right to

reject any or all Proposals.

Chicago, Illinois

May 6, 2026

Metropolitan Water Reclamation District

of Greater Chicago

By Darlene A. LoCascio

Director of Procurement

and Materials Management

This is the opportunity summary page. It provides an overview of this opportunity and a preview of the attached documentation.

FURNISHING AND DELIVERING POLYMER

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