Furnish and Deliver Miscellaneous Electrical & Mechanical Equipment at Various Locations

Agency:	Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago
State:	Illinois
Type of Government:	State & Local
Category:	59 - Electrical and Electronic Equipment Components
Posted:	Dec 6, 2023
Due:	Jan 23, 2024
Solicitation No:	24-622-11
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NOTICE

INVITATION TO BID

METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO

FOR

FURNISH AND DELIVER MISCELLANEOUS ELECTRICAL & MECHANICAL

EQUIPMENT AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS

CONTRACT 24-622-11

PROPOSALS ARE DUE JANUARY 23, 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 JANUARY 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 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 to various locations:

• two (2) submersible horizontal dry pit solids handling

pumps with integrated VFD

• two (2) rotary screw compressor packages; one (1) Model 509

stop log kit

• four (4) Bently Nevada 3500 Monitoring Systems and one (1)

Bently Nevada 3500 Rack Configuration Software and Manual

• two (2) steam / hot water tube bundles

• six (6) 20- inch expansion joints

• one (1) pinch valve with bevel gear operator and handwheel

with chainwheel adapter, fittings, and appurtenances along

with one (1) lot of Schedule 80 PVC piping

• four (4) 100 HP DC motors

• one (1) Eaton 150 VCP 1000 circuit breaker

• one (1) 2,000 kVA Dry-type transformer

• one (1) new left-handed LJ Wing two row face and by-pass

coils with pneumatic damper actuator

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• two (2) new right-handed LJ Wing two row face and by-pass

coils with pneumatic damper actuator

• two (2) new LJ Wing four row face and by-pass coil with

pneumatic damper actuator

• four (4) new Marlo Model 2H steam distributing type coils

as specified herein. All deliveries shall be completed in

accordance with the ‘Time’ section of the Detail Specifications.

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

(14) Bid Items. Bidders may submit bids for any Bid Item or

combination of Bid Items as set forth in the Proposal. However,

when bidding on any Bid Item, Bidders must submit the bid for the

full quantity in that Bid Item or the bid will be rejected as non-

responsive. For any Bid Item not bid, the Bidder shall insert “No

Bid” in the appropriate place. The District intends to award each

Bid Item to the lowest responsible Bidder for that Bid Item. The

District reserves the right to issue a Contract or Contracts to

any Bidder or Bidders for any Bid Item or combination of Bid Items

as it may deem to be in the best interest of the District to do

so.

The estimated cost of this Contract is $1,553,000.00. There is no

bid deposit required.

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.

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.

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

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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.

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.

The contact person for this contract is Richard Stubing. The

contact person will provide online responses to online inquiries.

The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago

reserves the right to reject any or all Proposals.

Metropolitan Water Reclamation District

of Greater Chicago

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Chicago, Illinois

December 6, 2023

Darlene A. LoCascio

Director of Procurement and

Materials Management

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