Common Area Cleaning of NSA Properties

Project Description: The Housing Authority of the City of Allentown, PA, by virtue of its contract with the United States of America, acting through the Department of Housing and Urban Development, pursuant to the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended, is hereby requesting bids to provide cleaning services at five properties located within the City of Allentown, specified in Bid No. 2024-010-101-50-4430000.
Attention is called to all respondents that all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity requirements for federally assisted contracts must be complied with. This includes strict compliance with Executive Order 11246, as amended (establishing a goal of 6.9% for female employment and 1.3% minority percentage by craft); Nondiscrimination; Executive Order 11625, Minority Business Enterprises; Executive Order 12138, Women Business Enterprise; Section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968; Civil Rights Act of 1964; and Minority Business Participation. Also, pursuant to 62 PA.C.S. Sec 4601-4604, the Authority is permitted to use a secure electronic bidding platform, such as The PennBid Program.
Interested respondents may obtain contract specification documents containing detailed submission requirements by accessing The PennBid Program at https://pennbid.bonfirehub.com/.
A pre-bid conference will be held on Thursday, October 10, 2024, beginning at 9:00 AM, prevailing time, in the Administrative Offices at Gross Towers, 1339 W. Allen Street, Allentown PA 18102. All prospective bidders are encouraged to attend with a printed copy of the bid document.
Questions may be submitted via the “Vendor Discussions tab” within Messages on the left side of the pennbid.bonfirehub.com webpage before Tuesday, October 22, 2024, at Noon, 12:00 PM EST. Responses will be provided to all bidders no later than Friday, October 25, 2024, at 3:00 PM EST.
Interested bidders are requested to respond by bid submission (satisfying the requirements of this Invitation) on or before Noon, 12:00 PM, prevailing time, Tuesday, November 5, 2024. Documents arriving after this time will not be considered. Complete bid documents shall be submitted electronically via https://pennbid.bonfirehub.com/projects.
The Allentown Housing Authority reserves the right to accept or reject any or all proposals or to waive any informalities in bidding, and to withhold award for a period of sixty (60) days.