KIBBY ROAD OVER BEAR CREEK BRIDGE REPLACEMENT PROJECT

COUNTY OF MERCED

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS

NOTICE TO BIDDERS

Bids open: Thursday, November 7, 2024 at 10:00 A.M. Pacific Daylight Savings Time

General work description: Replace the existing bridge with a cast-in-place concrete slab bridge, replace approximately 520-feet of Kibby Road with Class 2 aggregate base and hot mix asphalt. You must perform, place, construct, or install other items and details not mentioned that are required of the plans under the Standard Specifications and Special Provisions.

The County will receive sealed bids for the KIBBY ROAD OVER BEAR CREEK BRIDGE REPLACEMENT PROJECT.

Contract Number: 300-1364

Bid forms for this work are included in a separate book titled:

COUNTY OF MERCED

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS

BID BOOK

FOR

KIBBY ROAD OVER BEAR CREEK

BRIDGE REPLACEMENT PROJECT

No bid will be received unless it is made on a bid form furnished by the MERCED COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS. Copies or facsimiles of the bidder's completed and executed bid forms submitted as a bid will be rejected. Each bid must be accompanied by a certified check, cashier's check, or bidder's bond made payable to the COUNTY OF MERCED for an amount equal to at least ten percent (10%) of the amount of bid, such guaranty to be forfeited should the bidder to whom the contract is awarded fail to enter into the contract.

The Contractor must have either a Class A license or a combination of class C licenses that make up a majority of the work.

The successful bidder will be required to obtain a Merced County Business License before execution of the contract at his own expense.

No contractor or subcontractor may be listed on a bid proposal for a public works project unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5.

The DBE Contract goal is (22%) twenty two percent.

Federal-aid Project No.:  BRLO 5939(092)

For the federal training program, the number of trainees or apprentices is 3.

Attention is directed to Section 7-1.11C of the Standard Specifications for Female and Minority Goals for Merced County.

Bids must be on a unit price basis. All bids are to be compared on the basis of the COUNTY OF MERCED’S estimated quantities of work to be done.

Complete work within 129 working days.

The estimated cost of construction is $4,113,700.

Copies of plans, special provisions and proposal forms may only be obtained at the office of the Merced County Department of Public Works, Road Division, located at 345 W. 7th Street, Merced, CA 95341-6685, (209) 385-7601, upon request and payment of $50.00 per set, which is nonrefundable and includes sales tax.  Said material may be examined at the MERCED COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS OFFICE and at:

No prebid meeting is scheduled for this project.

The County will receive sealed bids until 10:00 a.m. on the bid open date at the Merced County Public Works Administration Office, located at 345 W. 7th Street, Merced, CA 95341-6685. Bids received after this time will not be accepted.

The County will immediately open and publicly read the bids at the mentioned location after the specified closing time.

Present bidders' inquires in writing via email to Alvaro Buenrostro, Supervising Engineer at the County of Merced - Department of Public Works, 345 West 7th Street, Building A, Merced, CA 95341-6685; email: For security reasons, you must enable JavaScript to view this E-mail address. .

Questions about alleged patent ambiguity of the plans, specifications, or estimate must be submitted in writing at least seven (7) calendar days before bid opening. After this time, the County will not consider these questions as bid protests.

You must take necessary and reasonable steps to ensure that DBEs have opportunity to participate in the Contract (49 CFR 26).

Prevailing wages are required on this Contract. The Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations determines the general prevailing wage rates. Obtain the wage rates at the DIR Web site, http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR/PWD .

The federal minimum wage rates for this Contract as determined by the United States Secretary of Labor are included in the Bid Book and are available at https://sam.gov/wage-determination/CA20240018/18 .

If the minimum wage rates as determined by the United States Secretary of Labor differs from the general prevailing wage rates determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations for similar classifications of labor, you and your subcontractors must not pay less than the higher wage rate. The County does not accept lower State wage rates not specifically included in the federal wage determinations. This includes helper, or other classifications based on hours of experience, or any other classification not appearing in the federal wage determinations. Where Federal wage determinations do not contain the State wage rate determination otherwise available for use by you and your subcontractors, you and your subcontractors must pay not less than the Federal minimum wage rate that most closely approximates the duties of the employees in question.

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) provides a toll-free hotline to report bid rigging activities. Use the hotline to report bid rigging, bidder collusion, and other fraudulent activities. The hotline number is (800) 424-9071. The service is available 24 hours 7 days a week and is confidential and anonymous. The hotline is part of the DOT’s effort to identify and investigate highway construction contract fraud and abuse and is operated under the direction of the DOT Inspector General.

California Department of Transportation has made available Notices if Suspension and Proposed Debarment from the Federal Highway Administration.  For a copy of the notices, go to http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/esd/oe/contractor_info .   Additional information is provided in the Excluded Parties List System at http://www.epls.gov.

The COUNTY OF MERCED reserves the right to reject any or all bid proposals and to waive any informalities or irregularities in any bid or in the bidding.

Dated this 30th of August 2024

County of Merced

Nathan Bray, P.E.

Director of Public Works

Road Commissioner