Addendum 2 - Bid #2425-14 Interior Painting Services - (Schroeder Wattles Troy HS).pdf

Addendum 2

Project: RFP NUMBER 2425-14 – TROY SCHOOL DISTRICT INTERIOR PAINTING

SERVICES – (SCROEDER & WATTLES ELEMENTARY AND TROY HIGH SCHOOLS

Bid Due date: 2:30 PM Local Time, Wednesday, February 26, 2025 (UNCHANGED)

This Addendum is issued as modifications to the RFP previously issued to provide clarifications to the scope of work. This Addendum supersedes the original RFP. This along with the RFP becomes the bid documents.

I. General Information

1. For questions e-mail lecoleplanners3@gmail.com or through Buildingconnected.com.

2. Any bidder requesting to visit the site should contact Mark Paulus at lecoleplanners3@gmail.com or (248) 880-6791 to schedule a time. No bidder shall visit the building without scheduling it with Mark Paulus.

3. Bid Package. Page 11. Add Article 3.1.1.11. Bid Security: Contractors must submit with its Proposal bid security in the form of a Bid Bond issued by a qualified surety or certified check/money order in an amount of five percent (5%) of the Proposal (“Bid

Security”). Failure to include this Bid Security with the Contractor’s Proposal will result in the rejection of your Proposal. If a Bid Bond is posted by a Contractor, it shall be from a Treasury Surety licensed to do business in the State of Michigan, and the attorney-in-fact who executes the Bid Bond on behalf of the Contractor shall attach a certified, current copy of its power of attorney. In the event a certified check/money order is submitted, it shall be made payable to “Troy School District.” The School

District shall not be liable for any interest earned thereon. The Bid Security shall be forfeited as liquidated damages, and not as a penalty, if the Contractor withdraws its

Proposal after the Due Date for submission of Proposals or, upon acceptance of its

Proposal by the School District, the Contractor fails to execute the form of Contract acceptable to the School District, substantially evidencing and incorporating this RFP and its Proposal and fails to provide the required Performance Bond and/or Payment

Bond, if any, and the required insurance certificates, within fifteen (15) days of an award of a Contract to the Contractor. Bid Bonds shall be duly executed by the

Contractor, as principal and by a surety that is properly licensed and authorized to do business in the state in which the Work is to be performed. All sureties providing bonds for this Project must be listed in the latest version of the Department of

Treasury’s Circular 570, entitled “Companies Holding Certificates of Authority as

Acceptable Sureties on Federal Bonds and as Acceptable Reinsuring Companies”, with the bond amount less than or equal to the underwriting limitation, and/or have an

A.M. best rating of A- or better. Bid Security shall be returned to all non-successful

Contractors within a reasonable time after the award of a Contract and execution of a

Contract by the successful Contractor. The bid bond can be included with the proposal as submitted through Buildingconnected.com. If the bid security is a certified check/money order, this must be delivered to the following address: 1140 Rankin

Street, Troy, MI 48083 prior to the bid due date and time.

4. Bid Package. Page 11. Add Article 3.1.1.12. Bond: Successful Contractors whose

Proposals are $50,000 or more will be required to furnish Performance and Payment

Bonds, in a form satisfactory to the School District, in the amount of 100% of its

Proposal by a Treasury-listed Surety licensed to do business in the State of Michigan, and the attorney-in-fact who executed the Performance and Payment Bonds on behalf of the Contractor shall attach a certified, current copy of its power of attorney. The cost of the Bonds shall be included in each Proposal.

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