AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT, AGRICULTURAL FIELDSIDE MOWING, AND FENCE INSTALLATION AND REMOVAL...

Location:	Illinois
Posted:	Feb 25, 2026
Due:	Mar 17, 2026
Agency:	METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO
Type of Government:	State & Local
Category:	71 - Furniture
Solicitation No:	26-659-12
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NOTICE

INVITATION TO BID

METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO

FOR

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT, AGRICULTURAL FIELDSIDE MOWING,

AND FENCE INSTALLATION AND REMOVAL

AT FULTON COUNTY, ILLINOIS

CONTRACT 26-659-12 (RE-BID)

PROPOSALS ARE DUE MARCH 17, 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 AM 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 AM CT on March 17, 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 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 for providing all labor, supervision, vehicles, tools and materials,

including all transportation required, to perform maintenance, repair, operation of

agricultural equipment, moving of pipe, removing fences, cleaning culverts, clearing

vegetation, and other work as specified herein and required from time to time, at the

Metropolitan Water Reclamation District’s Prairie Plan Site in Fulton County, Illinois. The

Contract shall commence upon approval of the Contractor’s Bond and terminate

December 31, 2028, or upon expenditure of available funds, whichever occurs sooner.

The Contract is divided, for purposes of bidding, into three (3) Groups. Bidders

may submit a bid for any Group or combination of Groups, as set forth in the

Proposal. When submitting a proposal for any particular Group, the Bidder must

bid on every Item in that Group, or the bid will be considered non-responsive. For

any Group not bid, the Bidder shall insert “NO BID” in the appropriate place. The

District reserves the right to award a Contract or Contracts to any Bidder or Bidders

for any Group or combination of Groups as it may deem in its best interest.

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Group A – Agricultural Management: providing one (1) operating Engineer, one (1)

agricultural laborer, and other classifications of labor, for the operation, maintenance,

and repair of facilities and agricultural equipment.

Group B – Agricultural Fieldside Mowing: providing labor and equipment to perform

agricultural mowing services for a combined area of approximately 1,600 acres.

Group C – Fence Installation and Removal: providing labor, equipment, parts, and

material to install and remove woven or barbed wire fence.

The estimated cost of the work under this Contract is not to exceed the following amounts:

Group A – Agricultural Management

Group B – Agricultural Fieldside Mowing

Group C – Fence Installation and Removal

TOTAL for ALL Groups

$732,000.00

$375,000.00

$153,000.00

$1,260,000.00

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

District’s budget for all years under this Contract.

There is no bid deposit for this Contract. A Contractor's bond will be required. Please refer

to the CONTRACTOR’S BOND section in the Agreement for additional information about

this requirement.

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 documents should be directed to the District’s

Contract Desk at ContractDesk@mwrd.org or (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.

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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Any Proposal which indicates multiple or alternate bids will be deemed non-responsive

and will be rejected by the Director of Procurement and Materials Management.

Proposals shall conform to all the terms and conditions of the Bidding Requirements

attached hereto. Failure to submit the required documents as specified may render the

bid non-responsive and the bid may be rejected.

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 phone, 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.

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 Mr. Raphael Frost. Mr. Frost will provide online

responses to online inquiries.

Bidders are STRONGLY URGED to inspect all areas of the work sites, prior to bidding,

to familiarize themselves with the nature of the work and the method of accomplishing the

same. An optional Pre-Bid Walk-Through will be held on Tuesday, March 3, 2026, at

9:00 AM CT at the Conference Room of the Prairie Plan Office, 15779 E. County Highway

5, Cuba, IL 61427. Attendees are advised to bring a hard hat and appropriate footwear

for an industrial type of facility and a current business card. Bidders are reminded that no

questions will be taken during any site inspections. Bidders may instead raise questions

to the District’s online Question and Answer Board 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.

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Bidders should read the bidding requirements set forth on pages R-1 through R-6, and in

particular page R-2, Paragraph 6, in regards to questions on this Contract.

All Contracts for the Construction of Public Works are subject to the Illinois Prevailing

Wage Act (820 ILCS 130/0.01 et seq.)(the “Act”). Note that submission of certified payroll

records when requested by the District’s Affirmative Action Administrator in accordance

with Section 14(b) of the District’s Affirmative Action Ordinance does not relieve a

contractor of its obligation to submit certified payroll records to the Illinois Department of

Labor pursuant to the Act.

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

reject any or all Proposals.

Chicago, Illinois

February 25, 2026

Metropolitan Water Reclamation District

of Greater Chicago

By Darlene A. LoCascio

Director of Procurement

and Materials Management

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

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT, AGRICULTURAL FIELDSIDE MOWING, AND FENCE INSTALLATION AND REMOVAL AT FULTON COUNTY, ILLINOIS (RE-BID)

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