LABORATORY ANALYSIS OF PER- AND POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES

Location:	Illinois
Posted:	May 5, 2026
Due:	May 12, 2026
Agency:	METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO
Type of Government:	State & Local
Category:	H - Quality Control, Testing, and Inspection Services Q - Medical Services R - Professional, Administrative and Management Support Services
Solicitation No:	26-103-11
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NOTICE

INVITATION TO BID

METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO

FOR

LABORATORY ANALYSIS OF PER- AND POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES

CONTRACT 26-103-11

PROPOSALS ARE DUE MAY 12, 2026

Sealed proposals, endorsed as above, will be submitted back 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), on the bid opening date,

and will be opened publicly by the Director of Procurement and Materials Management or her

designee at 11:00 AM on May 12, 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 AM 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.” Bids will be deemed non-responsive if not

submitted using the Euna-project specific URL link, provided by the District with the

bidding documents.

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.

Failure to submit the required documents as specified may render the bid non-responsive and the

bid may be rejected.

Tenders are invited to provide laboratory analysis of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl substances, from

the award of the purchase order through December 31, 2026.

The estimated cost of this Contract is $93,000.00. There is no bid deposit required.

Further, 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

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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. 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 mailed/faxed to each person which downloads a set of such contract

documents.

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 contact person for this contract is Ms. Heather Sanchez. Ms. Sanchez will provide online

responses to online inquiries.

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

any or all Proposals.

Metropolitan Water Reclamation District

of Greater Chicago

By Darlene A. LoCascio

Director of Procurement and

Materials Management

Chicago, Illinois

April 22, 2026

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

LABORATORY ANALYSIS OF PER- AND POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES

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