DEMOLITION FOR CENTRAL PARK STORMWATER DETENTION BASIN AND SEPARATE STORM SEWER IMPROVEMENTS IN HARVEY

Location:	Illinois
Posted:	Jul 21, 2026
Due:	Jul 28, 2026
Agency:	METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO
Type of Government:	State & Local
Category:	Y - Construction of Structures and Facilities Z - Maintenance, Repair or Alteration of Real Property
Solicitation No:	18-249-BF
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Contract Number: 18-249-BF

Contract Description: DEMOLITION FOR CENTRAL PARK STORMWATER DETENTION BASIN AND SEPARATE STORM SEWER IMPROVEMENTS IN HARVEY

Estimated Cost: BETWEEN $893,112.10 AND $1,081,136.70

Bid Deposit: $54,057.00

Pre-Bid Walkthrough: Optional Pre-Bid Walk-Through will be held on Wednesday, July 8,2026, at 10:00 A.M. Chicago Time at the 15300 Block of Myrtle Avenue, Harvey, IL

Pre-Bid Technical Conference: Voluntary Technical Pre Bid Conference: Thursday, July 9, 2026 at 10:00 am Chicago Time via ZOOM Link.

Advertise Date: 06/24/2026

Bid Opening Date/Time: 07/28/2026

Notes: Addendum No.1 dated July 17,2026.Compliance with the District's Affirmative Action Ordinance Revised Appendix D, Appendix V, and the Multi Project Labor Agreement are required on this Contract.

Number of Addenda: 1

Contract Documents

Invitation to Bid *
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Bidding Documents
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Addenda
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Pre-Bid Information:
Pre-Bid Conference
Registration Report

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NOTICE

INVITATION TO BID

METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO

FOR

DEMOLITION FOR CENTRAL PARK STORMWATER DETENTION BASIN AND SEPARATE

STORM SEWER IMPROVEMENTS IN HARVEY

CONTRACT 18-249-BF

PROPOSALS ARE DUE TUESDAY, July 28, 2026

Sealed proposals, endorsed as above, will be submitted back to the 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 designee at 11:00 AM on Tuesday, July 28, 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.

Tenders are invited to provide all necessary labor, supervision, tools, equipment, materials and

appurtenances to complete the following:

1. Mobilization

2. Demolition of 16 residential properties located in Harvey, IL:

a. Disconnect utilities

b. Install temporary fencing and silt fencing

c. Asbestos removal

d. Demolition of 16 residential properties and 4 garages

e. Site restoration for 31 parcels

f. Removal of temporary fencing and silt fencing

g. Demobilization

The site of the proposed work is the 15300 block of Myrtle Avenue in the City of Harvey, County of

Cook, State of Illinois.

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Funding of all contract items is subject to the Board of Commissioners’ approval of the budget for

those years.

The estimated cost of this Contract is between $893,112.10 and $1,081,136.70.

The bid deposit for this proposal is Fifty-Four Thousand Fifty-Seven Dollars ($54,057.00).

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.

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 &

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 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.

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.

Each proposal must be accompanied by a bid deposit in the form of a bid bond in the amount of Fifty-

Four Thousand Fifty-Seven Dollars ($54,057.00). Each bid bond must be underwritten by a surety

licensed to do business in the State of Illinois, listed in the latest copy of the Federal Register and

approved by the Director of Procurement and Materials Management. The bid bond must contain

signatures from the Bidder and Surety Company. Failure to provide signatures on the bid bond will

result in the rejection of the bid. Photographic and/or stamped signatures are acceptable. Any proposal

submitted without being accompanied by the required bid deposit, in the aforesaid form, will not be

considered and will not be read after it is publicly opened.

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Prior to award of the contract, the lowest responsible Bidder must demonstrate compliance with the

District’s Multi-Project Labor Agreement by submitting to the Director of Procurement and Materials

Management a signed Certificate of Compliance with the Multi-Project Labor Agreement. The

Agreement and Certificate of Compliance are contained in the Contract Documents.

The bid money value of all materials purchased directly by the Contractor, together with the bid money

value of all work performed by personnel and facilities provided directly by the Contractor, shall not

be less than 25% of the money value of all work performed under this Contract. Any bid money value

of work performed by the Subcontractors for work on the job site utilizing Subcontractors' materials,

labor and facilities cannot be included in the percent of work to be completed by the Contractor.

Each Bidder must submit with their proposals a signed and completed MBE/WBE Utilization Plan

which lists each business intended to be used as a MBE and WBE on pages UP-2 and UP-3 and

supplemental pages as necessary. The Bidder must sign the Signature Section page on UP-4. Failure

to submit a signed MBE/WBE Utilization Plan will result in a bid being deemed non-responsive and

the bid will be rejected. Also, if a Waiver is sought, the Bidder is required to sign pages UP-4 and UP-

5, which is the Waiver Request Form; failure to do so will be viewed as non-responsive and the bid

will be rejected.

Each Bidder must submit with their bid package an original or facsimile copy of the MBE/WBE

Subcontractor’s Letter of lntent, page UP-6 for each subcontractor listed on their MBE/WBE

Utilization Plan. The submitted MBE/WBE Subcontractor’s Letter of Intent must be completed and

signed by the subcontractor and accompanied with a copy of the subcontractor’s current Letter of

Certification from a state, local government or agency or documentation demonstrating that the

subcontractor is a MBE or WBE within the meaning of the Affirmative Action Ordinance, Revised

Appendix D. Failure to submit the MBE/WBE Utilization Plan signed by the Bidder at the time of the

bid opening and the MBE/WBE Subcontractor’s Letter of Intent signed by each MBE and WBE will

be viewed as non- responsive and the bid will be rejected.

If the Bidder exceeds the allowable Supplier Utilization amount which is stated in the bid documents,

the bid will be viewed as non-responsive. Therefore, the Bidder may not exceed the use of a MBE or

WBE supplier for more than 50% of each respective MBE or WBE, goal, unless the Administrator has

authorized a Supplier’s Exception notated on page AU-I.

Each Bidder must submit with their proposals a completed VBE Commitment Form which lists each

business intended to be used as a VBE. The Bidder must make a “Good Faith Effort” to identify eligible

Veteran Owned-Businesses by completing the VBE Commitment Form. If the Bidder is unable to

identify qualified VBE subcontractors capable of providing goods or services required by the contract,

the Bidder must write “no participation” on the VBE Commitment Form. Where a Bidder has failed to

meet the VBE participation goal, the Administrator shall require the Contractor to submit a Veteran’s

Business Enterprise Good Faith Efforts Documentation Request Form and provide additional

documentation of its good faith efforts in attempting to fulfill the VBE goal.

The Contractor must use the District’s online compliance monitoring system administered by the

Diversity Section for payment and reporting purposes, in order to fulfill the Affirmative Action

Program requirements.

The MBE/WBE Utilization Plan MUST be signed by the Bidder, even if the Bidder requests a waiver

and/or offers itself to meet any of the Affirmative Action Ordinance Revised Appendix D goals. If the

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Bidder offers itself to satisfy any of the Affirmative Action Ordinance Revised Appendix D goals, then

its name shall be shown in the appropriate space(s) on the MBE/WBE Utilization Plan.

Where a Bidder is a business owned and controlled by a minority woman (M/WBE), or where the

Bidder utilizes an M/WBE in a joint venture or as a subcontractor, the Bidder may count the M/WBE

participation toward the achievement of either its MBE or WBE goal, but not both.

Each Bidder’s Utilization Plan must commit to MBE and/or WBE participation equal to or greater than

the associated goals unless the Bidder indicates a partial or total waiver request on page UP5. If a

waiver from Appendix D requirements is sought, the Bidder will be required to provide documentation

of “Good Faith Efforts” to meet the Appendix D utilization goals, as defined in Section 15(e) of the

Affirmative Action Ordinance Revised Appendix D. Subsequent to the bid opening, and if it is

determined by the Diversity Administrator that a Contractor’s Information Form is required from the

apparent low Bidder, the Bidder must complete and submit the form with (3) calendar days of receiving

the written request.

The work under this Contract is classified as “Construction Services” for the MBE, WBE and VBE

utilization goals contained in the Affirmative Action Ordinance Revised Appendix D and Appendix

V. The associated goals are 20% Minority-owned Business Enterprises (MBE), 10% Women-owned

Business Enterprises (WBE), and 3% Veteran-owned Business Enterprises (VBE). The MBE, WBE,

and VBE goals do not apply to the portions of the work identified in the contract as Allowance Items,

Contingencies and Unit Price Items. Should you have any questions, please contact the Diversity Office

at 312-751-4034.

The Bidder to whom the contract is awarded must be prepared to comply with the requirements of the

Affirmative Action Revised Appendix D and Appendix V.

The Voluntary Technical Pre-Bid meeting will be held online via a Zoom meeting on Thursday,

July 9, 2026, at 10:00 AM Central Time. The link to the Zoom meeting is attached in a separate

Word document under the “Additional Documents” column on the District’s website at mwrd.org

(Doing Business→Procurement & Materials Management→Contract Announcements→(Find Correct

Project)→Bidding Documents→ Additional Documents). The purpose of the Voluntary Technical Pre-

Bid meeting is to review the scope of work, to provide for identification and discussion of potential

problems that might arise during the administration of this Contract and seek clarification of technical

or procedural aspects of this Contract. There will be a Q&A session at the end of the meeting. Also,

Bidders must give their contact information to register prior to entering the Zoom Pre-Bid meeting.

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 Wednesday, July 8, 2026, at 10:00 AM Central Time at the

15300 Block of Myrtle Avenue, Harvey, IL. The building interiors will be inaccessible during the

walk-through. Attendees are advised to bring a hard hat and appropriate footwear for a typical

construction site and a current business card. Bidders are reminded that no questions will be taken

during any site inspections. The District’s website (www.mwrd.org) will be used for addressing any

questions, as indicated in the Invitation to Bid documents for this Contract. The path is as follows:

Doing Business→Procurement & Materials Management→Contract Announcements→(Find Correct

Project)→Ask a Question.

The contact person for this contract is Senior Civil Engineer Daniel Walsh from the Engineering

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Department. This contact person will provide online responses to online inquiries.

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

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

All contracts for the Construction of Public Works are subject to the Illinois Prevailing Wage Act (820

ILCS 130/1 et. Seq.). 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 contract will be awarded to the lowest responsible, responsive Bidder, unless all bids are rejected.

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

any or all Proposals.

Chicago, Illinois

June 24, 2026

Metropolitan Water Reclamation District

of Greater Chicago

By Darlene A. LoCascio

Director of Procurement and

Materials Management

Contract 18-249-BF

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