5421-20240617092600 NATCHEZ CONSTRUCT.docx

City of Natchez, Mississippi Canal Street Over Canadian Pacific Rail Bridge Repair Project - 2411

NOTICE is hereby given that the City of Natchez, Mississippi, will receive written sealed bids at the Office of the City Clerk, 124 South Pearl St., Natchez, MS 39120 (601-445-7507), for the furnishing of all labor and materials and performing all activities specified in the Contract Documents, for the Canal Street Over Canadian Pacific Rail Bridge Repair Project. The work in this project consists generally of supplying labor, materials and equipment as required to perform all related items of work covered under the plans and specifications for the CANAL ST OVER CANADIAN PACIFIC RAIL BRIDGE REPAIR PROJECT, consisting of the repair of the Canal St bridge in Natchez, MS. All other related items of work required to complete the project are shown and specified in the Contract Documents. The City of Natchez will receive sealed bids until the hour of 10:00 AM local time on Tuesday, July 23, 2024, and thereafter publicly opened, read aloud, and taken under advisement until the next meeting of the Natchez Mayor and Board of Aldermen. Funding for this project is provided by the City of Natchez.

A Pre-Bid meeting will be conducted at 10:00 A.M., Local Time, on Thursday, July 11, 2024, in the upstairs conference room of the Natchez City Hall located at 124 S. Pearl Street, Natchez, Mississippi 39120.

The Contract Time will be one hundred (100) consecutive calendar days. Liquidated damages will be $1,000.00 per consecutive calendar day thereafter.

The City of Natchez hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively insure that in any contract entered pursuant to this advertisement, disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, sex, religion, or national origin in consideration for an award.

Project plans and contract documents may be procured upon payment of One Hundred and No/100 Dollars ($100) at the office of Stantec Consulting Services Inc., at the office of Stantec Consulting Services Inc., 2600 Lakeland Terrace, Suite 200, Jackson, MS 39216. The payment is non-refundable. Plans, contract documents and proposal forms are also on file for public inspection in the Office of the City Clerk, 124 South Pearl St., Natchez, MS 39121 (601-445-7507). Official bid documents can also be downloaded at www.centralbidding.com; electronic bids can also be submitted at www.centralbidding.com. For any questions regarding the electronic bidding process, please contact Central Bidding at 225-810-4814 or support@centralbidding.com.

State law requires a non-resident bidder to attach/include a copy of his resident state’s current law pertaining to such state’s treatment of non-resident contractors with their bid. Any bid submitted by a non-resident contractor which does not include the non-resident contractor’s current state law shall be rejected and not considered for award.

Each bidder must deposit with its proposal a bid bond or certified check in an amount equal to five percent (5%) of the total bid for the work, payable to City of Natchez, as bid security. The successful bidder shall furnish a Performance Bond and Payment Bond, each in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the contract amount awarded. Attorneys-in-fact who sign Bid Bonds, Payment Bonds, and/or Performance Bonds must file with each bond a certified and effective dated copy of their power of attorney.

Each bidder shall write its certificate of responsibility number on the outside of the sealed envelope containing its proposal. Any bid without the certificate of responsibility written on the outside of the sealed envelope shall not be opened and considered. Each bidder submitting a bid electronically as a PDF file shall include its Certificate of Responsibility Number as part of its PDF electronic bid submittal. Any electronic PDF bid that does not include the bidder’s Certificate of Responsibility Number shall not be considered.

No bid may be altered, modified, or withdrawn within sixty (60) days after being filed with the Board of Aldermen.

The City of Natchez reserves the right to reject any and all bids, to waive any informalities, to negotiate with the lowest and best bidder to reduce the bid price to come within the funds allocated for the work, to reduce the job in order to stay within available funding or as desirable in the discretion of the Board of Aldermen, and to accept bids by classes and/or groups, if applicable, all as set forth and in accordance with applicable Mississippi law and in the Instructions to Bidders.

BY ORDER OF THE CITY OF NATCHEZ:

DAN M. GIBSON, MAYOR

MEGAN M. MCKENZIE, CITY CLERK

Publication Dates: June 19, 2024 and June 26, 2024