Furnish and Deliver HVAC Condensing Units to the Calumet Water Reclamation Plant

Agency:	Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago
State:	Illinois
Type of Government:	State & Local
Category:	41 - Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Air Circulating Equip.
Posted:	Oct 25, 2023
Due:	Nov 21, 2023
Solicitation No:	23-819-11
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NOTICE

INVITATION TO BID

METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO

FOR

FURNISH AND DELIVER HVAC CONDENSING UNITS TO THE CALUMET WATER

RECLAMATION PLANT

CONTRACT 23-819-11

PROPOSALS ARE DUE NOVEMBER 21, 2023

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 November 21, 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 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.”

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.

Tenders are invited to furnish and deliver to the Calumet Water

Reclamation Plant: two (2) HVAC condensing units as specified in

the Detail Specifications. All deliveries shall be completed in

accordance with the “Time” section of the Detail Specifications.

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The Contract has one bid item. When bidding on the Bid Item,

Bidders must submit the bid for the full quantity in the Bid

Item or the bid will be rejected as non-responsive. The District

intends to award this Bid Item to the lowest responsible Bidder

for that Bid Item. The District reserves the right to issue a

Contract to any Bidder for the Bid Item as it may deem to be in

the best interest of the District to do so.

The estimated cost of this Contract is $72,990.00. There is no

bid deposit required.

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 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.

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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

Chicago, Illinois

October 25, 2023

Darlene A. LoCascio

Director of Procurement and

Materials Management

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