Furnishing and Delivering Hydrogen Peroxide

Agency:	Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago
State:	Illinois
Type of Government:	State & Local
Category:	68 - Chemicals and Chemical Products
Posted:	Jan 17, 2024
Due:	Feb 6, 2024
Solicitation No:	24-636-11
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NOTICE

INVITATION TO BID

METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO

FOR

FURNISHING AND DELIVERING HYDROGEN PEROXIDE

CONTRACT 24-636-11

PROPOSALS ARE DUE FEBRUARY 6, 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 (CT)), on the bid opening date, and will be opened publicly by

the Director of Procurement and Materials Management or designee at 11:00 AM CT, on

February 6, 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, E-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.”

Tenders are invited to furnish and deliver hydrogen peroxide, and perform scheduled

inspection, adjustment, and repairs of the hydrogen peroxide injection system, at the

Stickney Water Reclamation Plant for a twenty-four (24) month period, beginning five (5)

calendar days after the mailing date of a purchase order.

The Contract is divided, for purposes of bidding, into four (4) Items. Bidders must

submit bids for all four (4) Items, or the bid will be rejected as non-responsive. The

Metropolitan Water Reclamation District intends to issue one (1) purchase order to one

(1) Contractor for all of the material to be furnished, and work to be performed, under this

Contract.

The estimated cost of this Contract is $471,920.00.

The bid deposit for this Contract is $23,600.00.

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

see page P-4 in the Contract Documents for additional information.

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

District’s budget for all years under this Contract.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Proposals shall conform to all the terms and conditions of the Bidding Requirements

attached hereto.

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.

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.

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The Resident Engineer for this Contract is Ms. Debbra Hill. Ms. Hill 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 the Resident Engineer, Ms. Debbra Hill, at (708) 588-

4158, between the hours of 7:00 A.M. and 2:00 P.M., Monday through Friday.

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

Contract Documents, 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 130/1-12).

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

reject any or all Proposals.

Metropolitan Water Reclamation District

of Greater Chicago

By Darlene A. LoCascio

Director of Procurement

and Materials Management

Chicago, Illinois

January 17, 2024

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