Furnishing and Delivering Calcium Nitrate to the Kirie Water Reclamation Plant

Agency:	Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago
State:	Illinois
Type of Government:	State & Local
Category:	68 - Chemicals and Chemical Products
Posted:	Apr 3, 2024
Due:	Apr 23, 2024
Solicitation No:	24-709-11
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NOTICE

INVITATION TO BID

METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO

FOR

FURNISHING AND DELIVERING CALCIUM NITRATE

TO THE KIRIE WATER RECLAMATION PLANT

CONTRACT 24-709-11

PROPOSALS ARE DUE APRIL 23, 2024

Sealed proposals, endorsed as above, will be submitted to the

Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago

(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 and Materials Management or her

designee at 11:00 A.M. (CT) on April 23, 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 A.M. CT 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 provide all necessary tools, equipment,

hoses and connectors, labor, transportation, expertise,

supervision, and services to furnish and deliver calcium nitrate

to the Kirie Water Reclamation Plant service area, for a twenty-

four (24) month period.

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The total estimated cost of this Contract is not to exceed

$270,000.00.

Funding of all Contract items is subject to the Board of

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

under this Contract.

There is no bid deposit for this Contract.

The Contract is divided, for purposes of bidding, into three (3)

Items. Bidders must submit bids for all three (3) Items or the bid

will be rejected as non-responsive. The District intends to award

one (1) purchase order to one (1) Bidder for all the work to be

performed.

Proposals shall conform to all the terms and conditions of the

Bidding Requirements attached hereto. Failure to submit the

required documents as specified may render the bid non-

responsive and the bid may be rejected.

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.

Any Proposal which indicates multiple or alternate bids will be

deemed non-responsive and will be rejected by the Director of

Procurement and Materials Management.

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

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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.

Bidder shall acknowledge receipt of each addendum issued in

space provided on proposal signature page or submit a signed

copy of each addendum with the Bidder’s proposal at the time and

date set to receive bids.

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 Resident Engineer for this Contract is Ms. Fay Costa will

provide online responses to online inquiries.

Bidders are STRONGLY URGED to inspect all areas of the work

sites prior to bidding, in order to familiarize themselves with

the nature of the work and the method of accomplishing the same.

To schedule an appointment to inspect the work sites,

prospective Bidders may contact Ms. Fay Costa, at (847) 375-

2502, between the hours of 7:00 A.M. and 3:00 P.M., Monday

through Friday.

Bidders shall take special note of the stipulations on page G-4,

under Interpretation of Contract Documents, in regard to

questions on this Contract.

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

April 3, 2024

By Darlene A. LoCascio

Director of Procurement

and Materials Management

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