Maintenance, Repairs, and Parts for Boats, Outboard Motors, and Trailers

Agency:	Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago
State:	Illinois
Type of Government:	State & Local
Category:	19 - Ships, Small Craft, Pontoons, and Floating Docks J - Maintenance, Repair, and Rebuilding of Equipment
Posted:	Nov 29, 2023
Due:	Dec 12, 2023
Solicitation No:	24-102-11
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24-102-11

NOTICE

INVITATION TO BID

METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO

MAINTENANCE, REPAIRS, AND PARTS

FOR BOATS, OUTBOARD MOTORS, AND TRAILERS

CONTRACT 24-102-11

PROPOSALS ARE DUE DECEMBER 12, 2023

Sealed proposals, endorsed as above, will be submitted back to the District via an electronic upload to the

Bonfire Portal only, from the date of the Invitation to Bid, up to 11:00 a.m. Central time (CT), on the bid

opening date, and will be opened publicly by the Director of Procurement & Materials Management or

designee at 11:00 a.m. on December 12, 2023.

The public cannot attend but can view the bid opening at https://mwrd.org/bid-opening.

No bids will be accepted after 11:00 a.m. on the above scheduled bid opening date. All bids emailed,

faxed, mailed 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 Bonfire Portal (https://mwrd.bonfirehub.com/). Please see specific

instructions on how to upload your bid to the Bonfire Portal in the bid document entitled “Submission

via the Bonfire Portal.” Bids will be deemed non-responsive if not submitted using the Bonfire-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 &

Materials Management by downloading online from the District’s website at www.mwrd.org (Doing

Business → Procurement and 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.

Failure to submit the required documents as specified may render the bid non-responsive and the bid may

be rejected.

TENDERS ARE INVITED to furnish and deliver boat maintenance, repairs, and parts for the PC100 boat

to the District from the award of the purchase order through December 31, 2025.

The Contract is comprised of ten (10) items. Bidders must submit bids for all items or the bid will be

rejected as non-responsive. The District intends to award one Contract to one Bidder for all the items

The Cost Estimate of this Contract is: $25,000.00. There is no bid deposit required. Funding of all

contract items is subject to the Board of Commissioners approval of budget for those years.

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.

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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.

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.

The contact person for this Contract is Dustin Gallagher. Mr. Gallagher will provide online responses to

online inquiries.

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

all Proposals.

Metropolitan Water Reclamation District

of Greater Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

November 29, 2023

By: Darlene A. LoCascio

Director of Procurement and Materials Management

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