00010_INVITATION_FOR_BID.pdf

BRIDGEPORT WPCA

Project Specifications (Rev. 7/24) 00010-1

INVITATION FOR BID

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PURCHASES

Margaret E Morton Government Center 999 Broad Street

Bridgeport, CT 06604

The Water Pollution Control Authority (WPCA) of The City of Bridgeport Bridgeport, Connecticut

Caroline Sanchez, Buyer

Bid # WPB014259 - Sewer Rehabilitation Through Pipe Replacement – PR-2

September 9, 2024

The City of Bridgeport is accepting paper (sealed) OR electronic bid submission for

SEWER REHABILITATION THROUGH PIPE REPLACEMENT - PR-2

***SOLICITATION WILL BE POSTED ON BOTH SITES****

BIDSYNC http://bidsync.com OPENGOV http://www.opengov.com

Paper submissions can be mail or hand deliver to the City of Bridgeport, Department of Public Purchases, 2nd floor, 999 Broad Street, Bridgeport, CT 06604. In the form of, one SEALED envelope with four (4) copies (marked 1 Original, 3 Copies and one (1) digital copy).

Electronic submissions will be received through City’s e-Procurement Portal, OpenGov, https://procurement.opengov.com/portal/bridgeportct. Bidders shall create a FREE account with OpenGov Procurement by signing up at https://procurement.opengov.com/signup. Once you have completed account registration, browse back to this page, click on "Submit Response", and follow the instructions to submit the electronic bid.

Submissions will be received by the City of Bridgeport, Department of Public Purchases, 2nd floor, 999 Broad Street, Bridgeport, CT 066604 until 2:00 p.m., Thursday, October 10, 2024, at which time and then at said office will be publicly opened.

The work of this Contract consists of the rehabilitation of existing sewer lines through open excavation, removal/disposal of the existing pipe and replacement of the altered line including adjacent appurtenances. The contract is a term service agreement which consists of a list of unit prices to be used in the first two years and an extension for five years if mutually agreeable or, in case of disagreement, a new contract to be made available for bidding. Every year WPCA will issue a list of sewer lines to be reconstructed through pipe replacement. Emergency afterhours work may be included in this contract.

The yearly contract value is anticipated to average $400,000/yr. The work of this contract is located in the City of Bridgeport. Details of the project are presented in plans and specifications that have been prepared by the Bridgeport WPCA.

Any questions regarding this bid must be presented in writing and may be posted directly on the BidSync or OpenGov website question sections. The cut-off date for questions and http://bidsync.com/ http://www.opengov.com/ https://opengov.com/ https://procurement.opengov.com/portal/bridgeportct https://opengov.com/ https://procurement.opengov.com/signup http://www.bidsync.com/ https://opengov.com/

Project Specifications (Rev. 7/24) 00010-2 answers is 4:00pm on Thursday, September 26, 2024. All answers will be published in the form of addenda on http://www.bidsync.com and http://www.opengov.com. All bidders shall check http://bidsync.com and http://www.opengov.com regularly to see if any addendums are issued.

Include with the submitted bid, a ten (10%) percent ORIGINAL bid bond or a certified check made payable to the City of Bridgeport with its bid submission if the bid is $50,000.00 or more, except for bids from MBE’s, for which a bid bond is required on bids that are $100,000 or more. THE MBE CERTIFICATION SHALL BE SUBMITTED AT THE

TIME OF BID OR NO EXEMPTION FROM THE BID BOND REQUIREMENT SHALL BE

PERMITTED.

The awarded contractor must accurately complete and submit a No Conflicts/Disclosure form when it receives a Notice of Intent to Award. Failure to submit the No Conflicts/Disclosure Form within three (3) days of receipt of the Notice of Intent to Award may result in the loss of the award.

Attention is called to the fact that not less than the minimum salaries and wage as set forth in the Contract Documents must be paid on this project; that the Contractor must ensure that employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against because of their creed, race, color, religion, sex or national origin; and, that a mandatory ratio of apprentices and trainees to journeymen is required in each craft and the Contractor (and any sub-contractors) is obliged to make and document his “diligent effort” to achieve these ratios.

The City of Bridgeport Minority and Buy Local Program Ord. 3.12.130 E, may be applicable to this project.

To receive consideration as a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and/or as a City Based Business (CBB) in conjunction with this Invitation, certifications of the vendor’s current MBE and/or CBB status must be included as part of the bid package at the time of bid submission. Consistent with the terms of City Ordinance 3.12.130 no submission of either MBE or CBB certification will be accepted when such certification(s) is/are not submitted as part of the bid package at the time of bid submission. For MBE/CBB certification information, please contact the Small & Minority Business Enterprise office.

1) Preferences for City -Based Business and Certified Minority Businesses in the Awarding of City Contracts the City shall review bids and award contracts in accordance with the City's Minority Business Enterprise Program, which establishes preferences for Certified City-based businesses ("CBBs") and Certified minority businesses ("CMBs" or "MBEs" or "WBEs") whereby such businesses are allotted an opportunity to match lowest bids and to be awarded work at the lowest bid price in those instances in which their initial higher bids are within certain percentages (ranging from 5% to 10% depending upon the bid amount) of the low bid amount, as per the following formula:

a) for low bids up to $100K, CBBs and CMBs receive preference within 10% of low bid;

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b) for low bids from $100K to $250K, CBBs and CMBs receive preference within 7.5% of low bid;

c) for low bids from $250K to $500K, CBBs and CMBs receive preference within 5% of low bid.

2) Requirements for Participation of MBEs WBEs and African American Businesses Any contract awarded to a non-minority prime contractor pursuant to this bid shall be subject to the Ordinance's requirements that certain percentages of the dollar amount of such contract be sub-contracted as follows:

a) 30% of the value to MBEs, (15% to MBEs and 15% to WBEs) — as an attainable goal;

b) 6% of the value to African American owned businesses ("AAB") —as a mandator)' requirement.

3) Requirement for Identifying MBE Subcontractors and Prohibition Against Substitution of MBEs Prime contractors are encouraged in their bid submission to identify the MBE and/or WBE and/or AAB subcontractors with whom they intend to subcontract and for what value.

Absent such specific identification, prime contractors must at least indicate their intention to meet the MBE goals, and the AAB requirement established above. Once given a notice of the City's intent to award a contract, prime contractors must, if they hadn't already done so in their initial bid, specifically identify the MBE and/or WBE and/or AAB subcontractors with whom they intend to subcontract and for what value. Once they have so designated such subcontractors, prime contractors may not substitute such subcontractors without good cause shown, subject to the City's review and consent.

4) Requirement for Prompt Payment of MBEs and Prohibition Against "Pay When Paid" Contracts In awarding contracts per this bid, the City shall commit to making payment within 30 days of its approval of complete invoices submitted by prime non-minority contractors who are utilizing MBE subcontractors and shall further commit to making payment within 15 days of its approval of complete invoices submitted by prime MBE contractors. In accepting a contract pursuant to this bid, prime contractors agree that they shall:

a) have no "pay when paid" [by the City] clause in their subcontracts with MBEs;

b) pay MBE subcontractors within 15 days of their receipt of complete invoices;

c) provide the City with copies of MBE sub-contracts to document their compliance.

d) provide the City with executed lien waivers from MBE subs to document prompt payment.

Bids may be held by the WPCA for a period not to exceed one hundred and twenty (120) days from the date of the opening of Bids for the purpose of reviewing the Bids and investigating the qualifications of Bidder, prior to awarding of the Contract. No proposal may be withdrawn within one hundred twenty (120) days after date of opening thereof. The WPCA reserves the right to reject any or all Bids or to waive any informalities in the Bidding.

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The bid shall not include in the quotation taxes for which the City is not liable; tax certificates will be furnished upon request.

All the required blank spaces for unit prices or estimates must be filled as a condition for bid acceptance. If any price is omitted the bid may be rejected.

The evaluating criteria to determine the successful bidder will be determined by looking at the overall bid package.

The bidder understands, by signing the bid, that the WPCA for Bridgeport shall REJECT any bid that has unit prices which, are in the opinion of the Engineer, obviously unbalanced. The bidder is required to calculate the value of the various bid items on the basis of reasonable labor, material, equipment, pro-rata profit overhead costs to perform the work described in the contract documents.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Paper submissions, one SEALED envelope with four (4) copies (marked 1 Original, 3 Copies and one (1) digital copy).

Sealed submissions must be received and time-stamped by the Purchasing Department prior to IFB closing time. No submission received after closing time will be considered.

To ensure proper handling & avoid misdirected delivery, please mark your IFB envelope as follows:

WPB014259 – “Sewer Rehabilitation Through Pipe Replacement– PR-2”, Send your submissions to:

Caroline Sanchez Department of Public Purchases 2nd floor, 999 Broad Street Bridgeport, CT 06604

Invitation For Bid submissions (IFB) are due: 2:00 PM, Thursday, October 10, Electronic submissions will be received through City’s e-Procurement Portal, OpenGov, https://procurement.opengov.com/portal/bridgeportct. Bidders shall create a FREE account with OpenGov Procurement by signing up at https://procurement.opengov.com/signup. Once you have completed account registration, browse back to this page, click on "Submit Response", and follow the instructions to submit the electronic bid.

Late Submissions: City will not assume responsibility if a submission is misdirected, or its delivery is delayed. It shall be the sole responsibility of the submitter to pay for any type of delivery service charge, and to see that the Office of the Purchasing Agent receives his/her submission on time. The clock used shall be the Purchasing Agent’s official date and time stamp clock. The City does not assume financial responsibility for https://opengov.com/ https://procurement.opengov.com/portal/bridgeportct https://opengov.com/ https://procurement.opengov.com/signup

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The City shall not be responsible for and/or shall not pay any costs associated with the preparation, submission, or presentation of any submission, or costs incurred by the responding firms during the interview and negotiations phase of the solicitation process.

NOTE: IF THE MARGARET E. MORTON GOVERNMENT CENTER, 999 BROAD

STREET, BRIDGEPORT CT., IS CLOSED FOR ANY UNFORESEEN EVENT, BIDS

WILL BE DUE AT THE SAME TIME ON THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY THAT THE

MARGARET E. MORTON GOVERNMENT CENTER IS OPEN.

This is a TERM SERVICE AGREEMENT CONTRACT, which requires the successful bidder to maintain the original bid prices for a two-year period through Oct. 31, 2026.

At the end of the contract period, the City reserves the right to extend this term for another three years or to provide a new contract for biding.

The unit prices for each of the several items in the proposal of each bidder shall include its prorated share of overhead so that the sum of the products obtained by multiplying the quantity shown for each item by the unit price represents the total bid. Any bid not conforming to this requirement will be rejected as informal.

The bid submission shall consist of two separate documents:

I. The first shall include technical product, process information and, the Contractor qualification data as described below and the signature (last) page of this Invitation Document.

II. The second shall be the bid proposal and bid security.

Bidders shall not include in the quotation taxes for which the City is not liable; tax certificates will be furnish upon request.

QUALIFICATIONS OF BIDDERS

Bidders must present, with the bid, satisfactory evidence that they have been regularly engaged in the business of constructing such work as they propose to execute, and that they are fully prepared with the necessary capital, materials and equipment to conduct the work to be contracted for the satisfaction of the Owner, and to begin it promptly when ordered.

The Owner reserves the right to reject any bid if the evidence submitted by or investigation of such bidder fails to satisfy the Owner that such bidder is properly qualified to carry out the obligations of the contract and to complete the work contemplated therein.

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Bid # WPB014259 Sewer Rehabilitation Through Pipe Replacement – PR-2

COMPANY NAME DATE

ADDRESS NAME OF OFFICER CO/CORP

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TELEPHONE AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE (bidder)

E-MAIL ADDRESS

EMPLOYER’S FEDERAL I.D. NUMBER CONTRACTOR/LICENSE NUMBER

ORSOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER