UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK IMPROVEMENTS AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS

Location:	Illinois
Posted:	Jul 7, 2026
Due:	Jul 14, 2026
Agency:	METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO
Type of Government:	State & Local
Category:	H - Quality Control, Testing, and Inspection Services
Solicitation No:	22-602-21
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NOTICE

INVITATION TO BID

METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO

FOR

UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK IMPROVEMENTS AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS

CONTRACT 22-602-21

PROPOSALS ARE DUE July 14, 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 July 14, 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 supply all necessary labor, supervision, vehicles, fuel, tools,

material, equipment, and appurtenances, including equipment operators and the

transportation of all tools, equipment, and personnel, necessary to upgrade eleven (11)

underground storage tanks (USTs), fuel dispensing systems, tank monitoring systems,

emergency shut-off switches, alarms and related appurtenances at various District

facilities to comply with the Office of the Illinois State Fire Marshal regulatory change to

41 Ill. Adm. Code 175.410-Technical Requirements for Underground Storage Tanks

(USTs), which will take effect on October 13, 2028. A more detailed description of the

work is provided in the Detail Specifications. It is understood and agreed that the

Contractor shall complete all required work in this Contract within 485 calendar days after

the approval of the Contractor’s Bond.

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The Contract is divided, for purposes of bidding, into four Items. Bidders must submit

bids for all items or the bid will be rejected as non-responsive. The District intends

to issue one Contract to one Bidder for all the work to be performed.

The estimated cost for this contract is between $1,197,000.00 and $1,449,000.00.

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

District’s budget for all years of this Contract.

Each proposal must be accompanied by a bid deposit in the form of a bid bond. in

the amount Sixty-Three Thousand Dollars ($63,000.00). 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.

THE BID DEPOSIT FOR THIS CONTRACT IS: $63,000.00

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 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 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.

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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.

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 contact person for this Contract is Ms. Diana Robles. This contact person will provide

online responses to online inquiries.

Bidders should read 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

June 17, 2026

Metropolitan Water Reclamation District

of Greater Chicago

By Darlene A. LoCascio

Director of Procurement and

Materials Management

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