FURNISH AND DELIVER MISCELLANEOUS ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT TO VARIOUS LOCATIONS

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NOTICE
INVITATION TO BID
TO
METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO
FOR
CONTRACT 26-622-11
FURNISH AND DELIVER MISCELLANEOUS ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL
EQUIPMENT TO VARIOUS LOCATIONS
PROPOSALS ARE DUE SEPTEMBER 22, 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, 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 online by the Director of Procurement and
Materials Management or designee at 11:00 AM on September 22, 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.
Tenders are invited to furnish and deliver miscellaneous electrical and mechanical
equipment to various locations in 2026 and 2027.
The estimated cost of this Contract is $822,100.00. There is no bid deposit required.
Funding of all Contract items is subject to the Board of Commissioners' approval of the
District's budget for all years under this Contract.
The Contract is divided, for purposes of bidding, into seven (7) items. Bidders may
submit bids for any item or combination of items as set forth in the proposal. The
District intends to award each item to the lowest responsible Bidder for that item. The
District reserves the right to issue a Contract or Contracts to any Bidder or Bidders for
any item or combination of items as it may deem to be in the best interest of the District
to do so.
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
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regarding the downloading of the Contract Document should be directed to the following
email: contractdesk@mwrd.org, or you may call 312-751-6643.
Failure to submit the required documents as specified may render the bid non-responsive
and the bid may be rejected
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 downloading of any and all District Contract documents by the Bidder, whether
caused by the District or other parties, directly or indirectly.
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 BusinessProcurement and Materials ManagementContract
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 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
BusinessProcurement and Materials ManagementContract Announcements. A copy
of such addenda will also be emailed/faxed to each person which downloads a set of such
Contract documents.
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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. Oral explanations will not be binding.
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. Mark Kursell. This contact person will provide
online responses to online inquiries.
Bidders should read page G-4 of the "GENERAL REQUIREMENTS, SPECIFICATION
AND CONDITIONS", section 9 'INTERPRETATION OF CONTRACT DOCUMENTS", for
questions regarding to this Contract.
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
September 2, 2026
Contract 26-622-11