Inspection and Repair of Cranes and Hoists at Various Locations

Agency:	Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago
State:	Illinois
Type of Government:	State & Local
Category:	J - Maintenance, Repair, and Rebuilding of Equipment
Posted:	Jan 31, 2024
Due:	Feb 27, 2024
Solicitation No:	24-670-11
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NOTICE

INVITATION TO BID

METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO

FOR

INSPECTION AND REPAIR OF CRANES AND HOISTS AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS

CONTRACT 24-670-11

PROPOSALS ARE DUE FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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),

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 February 27, 2024. 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 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 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 inspect and repair cranes and hoists at the

District’s various facilities throughout Cook County, Illinois for

a three (3) year period in accordance with the ”TIME” section of

the Agreement.

The Contract is divided, for purposes of bidding, into fourteen

Items. Bidders must submit bids for all Items or the bid will be

rejected as non-responsive. The District intends to issue one (1)

Contract to one (1) Bidder for all the work to be performed.

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The estimated cost of this Contract is not to exceed $953,900.00.

There is no bid deposit required for this contract.

The successful contractor agrees to furnish contractor’s bond.

Please refer to the Agreement section and the Contractor’s Bond

section for additional information about this requirement.

Funding for all Contract items is subject to the Board of

Commissioners’ approval of the District’s budget for all years

under this Contract.

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 130/1 et. Seq.).

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

January 31, 2024

Darlene A. LoCascio

Director of Procurement and

Materials Management

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