Irrigation conduit.pdf

Request for Proposals # 07062026 Conduit Installation for irrigation control wiring and waterline

Mt. Hood Community College (MHCC) Facilities Department is requesting bids from Oregon State certified, licensed, and bonded contractors, in good standing with the CCB, to install low voltage electrical conduit for landscape irrigation control wiring. Also to install 3-inch sch 40 pvc water pipe.

The contract is for a public work and shall be subject to the prevailing wage requirements of ORS 279C.800 to ORS 279C.870. The successful Bidder and its subcontractors shall pay the applicable prevailing wages to their workers as required by ORS 279C.840, and as listed in the most current BOLI prevailing wage rate publication, (Prevailing Wage Rates for Public Works Contracts in Oregon) as of the issue date of this ITB.

A mandatory pre-proposal meeting will be held on 07-16-2026 at 10:00 AM at the facilities conference located in Gresham Campus (26000 SE Stark St - Gresham, OR 97030)

Vendors that do not attend this mandatory meeting will not be able to bid.

Please send your proposal to Phil Parsley at Phillip.Parsley@mhcc.edu no later than 2:30 pm on July 22th, 2026. Proposals submitted after the designated time shall be kept but shall NOT be considered for award.

Proposal scoring criteria:

- Technical Requirements & Approach ------------- 30%

- Pricing & Cost Structure -----------------------------25%

- Warranty ------------------------------------------------ 25%

- Vendor Experience & Past Performance ----------- 20%

- Implementation Timeline & Methodology ---------10%

Scope of Work

1.This project is installing underground conduit to facilitate replacement of failing low voltage (29 VAC) direct burial irrigation control wire on the MHCC campus. The goal is to install sch 40 PVC electrical conduits, or UL 651A and NEMA TC-7 HDPE continuous conduit, underground, in the specified areas to allow installation of control wiring to irrigation control equipment.

Campus sidewalks and two roads will need to be traversed by the conduit path.

2. Install 3-inch sch40 pvc irrigation water line. Connect to existing irrigation per MHCC specifications.

mailto:Phillip.Parsley@mhcc.edu

Technical specifications

- Contractors must adhere to standard engineering guidelines. Follow manufacturers requirements for assembling conduit and waterpipe using primer and heavy bodied cement.

- Utility Locates: The contractor shall be responsible for all public and private utility locates.

- Materials: Contractor furnishes materials, unless otherwise specified by MHCC representative.

- As Built: Contractor delivers final redline drawings in PDF or CAD format mapping exact depth.

- Trace wire: For 3inch waterline installation.

- Minimum depth of cover is twelve inches for conduit, and eighteen below roadways, for open trench work or directional boring. Eighteen inches of cover for waterline.

- Set aside 4inch plus rock rather than backfill into trench.

- Leave continuous 1800 lb. polyester mule tape in conduit secured at each end.

- Junction Boxes: Installed by MHCC.

- Contractors must make efforts to avoid damaging tree roots or above ground tree parts.

- Tree protection boundaries and methods to be determined by Phil Parsley, MHCC.

- Restoration: Back fill to 95 % compaction. Leave surface graded smooth, flush, ready for mulch or seed.

- The contractor shall:

Contractor is responsible for traffic control where it is required by the City of Gresham or MHCC.

Be responsible for timely repair of damage to located existing utility.

Work in a safe and responsible manner and provide for the safety of people in proximity to the worksite.

Make reasonable accommodation for the users of the college campus, with regard to noise and pedestrian access.

Leave all work areas free of waste, trenches backfilled and tamped down (not wheel rolled), raked smooth and ready for bark mulch if in a planting bed, or ready for seed or sod if in a turf area.

MHCC Responsibilities:

- Provide access: This may include reserving parking areas to stage materials and equipment. Re-routing pedestrians. Arranging for working on the weekend.

- Water for directional drilling.

- Provide sand to cover 3-inch waterline.

Insurance Requirements:

• The Contractor shall maintain commercial general liability in an amount not less than $1,000,000 per occurrence to protect against liability for bodily injury and property damage, which may arise out of the Contractor’s operations under this project. Such insurance shall include coverage for products-completed operations liability, independent contractors, contractual liability (including the tort liability of another assumed under a business contract), and all other standard coverage provided by a commercial general liability policy.

• The Contractor shall maintain automobile liability insurance in an amount not less than $1,000,000 per occurrence to protect against liability arising from the use, loading, and

• unloading of all of the Contractor’s owned, hired, and non-owned automobiles in connection with this project.

• The Contractor shall maintain workers’ compensation coverage for all subject workers as required by law, including employer’s liability.

Submittal instructions:

- Company information and years of experience (not to exceed 1 page).

- Describe methods, solutions how your firm will accomplish installation goals.

- Project timelines.

- 3 recent references (please use page 4).

- Describe the warranty provided to the College.

FAILURE TO SUBMIT THIS FORM MAY BE CAUSE FOR PROPOSAL REJECTION

Due Date: 2:30 pm on July 22th, 2026

Request for proposals # 07062026

REFERENCE FORM

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