Furnishing and Delivering Sodium Hypochlorite

Agency:	Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago
State:	Illinois
Type of Government:	State & Local
Category:	68 - Chemicals and Chemical Products
Posted:	Oct 18, 2023
Due:	Nov 7, 2023
Solicitation No:	24-632-11
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NOTICE

INVITATION TO BID

METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO

FOR

FURNISHING AND DELIVERING SODIUM HYPOCHLORITE

CONTRACT 24-632-11

PROPOSALS ARE DUE NOVEMBER 7, 2023

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 AM 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 AM CT on November 7, 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 AM 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 furnish and deliver sodium hypochlorite to

various District treatment plants, facilities and dosing stations

located throughout Cook County, for an approximate twenty-four

(24) month period, ending December 31, 2025.

The estimated cost of this Contract is $6,659,000.00.

Funding of all Contract items is subject to the Board of

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

under this Contract.

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The bid deposit for this Contract is $333,000.00.

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

a bid bond. Please see pages P-5 and P-6 in the Contract Documents

for additional information.

The Contract is divided, for purposes of bidding, into eight (8)

Items. Bidders must submit bids for all eight (8) 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 under

this Contract.

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 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.

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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 Mr. Adam Pulse. Mr.

Pulse 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, Mr. Adam Pulse, at

(773)256-3580, between the hours of 8:00 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 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

Chicago, Illinois

October 18, 2023

By Darlene A. LoCascio

Director of Procurement

and Materials Management

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