Remote Storage of District Records for a Thirty-Six (36) Month Period

Agency:	Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago
State:	Illinois
Type of Government:	State & Local
Category:	R - Professional, Administrative and Management Support Services
Posted:	Dec 6, 2023
Due:	Jan 12, 2024
Solicitation No:	23-RFP-18
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NOTICE

INVITATION TO BID

METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO

REMOTE STORAGE OF DISTRICT RECORDS

FOR A THIRTY-SIX (36) MONTH PERIOD

CONTRACT 23-RFP-18

The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (“District”) requests proposals from any

prospective Proposer for the above captioned subject which is described in document 23-RFP-18.

PROPOSALS ARE DUE JANUARY 12, 2024

Sealed proposals, endorsed as above, will be submitted to the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District

via an electronic upload to the Bonfire Portal only. See “Submission Via the Bonfire Portal” for

instructions. Proposals will be accepted from the date of the Invitation to Bid, up to 11:00 A.M. Central

Time (CT) on January 12, 2024.

No bids will be accepted after 11:00 A.M. CT on January 12, 2024. Faxed, mailed, emailed, or hand

delivered proposals will not be accepted. There is no Bid Depository safe for this purpose.

The purpose of this Request for Proposal (RFP) is the procurement of storage space and related services for

inactive records, as identified in Section II – Scope of Work. It is anticipated that this RFP will begin on or

about June 1, 2024.

The estimated cost for Remote Storage of District Records for a Thirty-Six (36) Month Period is

$165,000.00. No bid deposit is required. Funding of all Contract items is subject to the Board of

Commissioners’ approval of the District’s budget for all years under this Contract.

Copies of the Request for Proposal are only available online from the District’s website at

www.mwrd.org  DOING BUSINESS  PROCUREMENT & MATERIALS MANAGEMENT 

CONTRACT ANNOUNCEMENTS. No fee is required for the Request for Proposal documents. Any

questions regarding the downloading of Request for Proposal documents should be directed to

contractdesk@mwrd.org or call (312) 751-6643.

Further, the District assumes no liability or responsibility for the failure or inability of any Proposer 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 Proposer, whether caused by the District or other parties, directly or indirectly.

Proposers are to include with their proposal signed copies of any addenda, or acknowledge receipt of any

addenda, if the District issued any addenda to this contract. Failure to do so may be cause for the rejection

of any bid. Bidding documents are available only online, and any addenda issued for this contract will be

available online at the District’s website, www.mwrd.org  DOING BUSINESS  PROCUREMENT &

MATERIALS MANAGEMENT  CONTRACT ANNOUNCEMENTS. Addenda will also be

emailed/faxed to each person receiving a set of such contract documents and to such other prospective

Proposers as shall have requested that they be furnished with a copy of the addenda.

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If any potential Proposer 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 &

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 ONE WEEK prior to the date set to receive

proposals. 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 proposal

documents. Any official interpretation or change to the proposal documents will be made only by addenda

duly issued to all plan holders on record by the Director of Procurement and Materials Management.

The District reserves the right to accept any Request for Proposal or any part thereof or to reject any and

all Request for Proposals.

The contact person for the request for proposal is John Markovich, Supervising Budget and Management

Analyst at markovichj2@mwrd.org. Mr. Markovich will provide online responses to online inquiries.

The District reserves the right to accept any Request for Proposal or any part thereof or to reject any and

all Request for Proposals.

Metropolitan Water Reclamation District

of Greater Chicago

By Darlene A. LoCascio

_______________________________________

Director of Procurement & Materials Management

DATE OF ADVERTISEMENT: Wednesday, December 6, 2023

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