NOTICE OF IFB (2024-2).pdf

State Oil and Gas Board

STATE OF MISSISSIPPI

August 21, 2024

VIA E-MAIL TO: tcllegals@gannett.com

TO: Clarion Ledger

Legal Notices Department

Post Office Box 40

Jackson, Mississippi 39205

RE: Orphaned Well Plugging Bid Notice

To Whom It May Concern:

Please publish the accompanying public notice in your Legal Notices twice, once on August 28, 2024 and again on September 4, 2024. We do not wish to have our notice published online.

After publication, please forward the proof of publication along with your statement to:

Dianne Rayfield

Mississippi Oil and Gas Board

500 Greymont Avenue, Suite E

Jackson, Mississippi 39202

Account tcl-212584

Thank you for your assistance in this matter.

Sincerely, Jess New

Executive Director

Board Members

DAVID A. SCOTT, Jackson

Chairman

LEW YODER, Laurel

Vice-Chairman

OWEN B. EMERSON, Hernando

JAMES H. HERRING, Canton

BRAD MAYO, Oxford

JESSE S. NEW, JR.

Executive Director

M. D. FORESTER, JR.

Board Attorney

500 Greymont Avenue, Suite E

Jackson, MS 39202

Telephone (601) 576-4900

NOTICE OF INVITATION FOR BID

The Mississippi Oil and Gas Board hereby gives notice that sealed proposals are sought and requested for furnishing all materials and doing all work necessary for the performance, according to specifications, of a contract to be let by the Mississippi Oil and Gas Board for the purpose of plugging declared orphan wells located in Amite, Monroe and Wayne County, Mississippi (IFB RFx No. 3160006831).

I.

Sealed proposals will be accepted by the office of the Board's Supervisor at 500

Greymont Avenue, Suite E, Jackson, Mississippi 39202, or electronically through the MAGIC system until 4:00 p.m. on Friday, October 4, 2024, and will be opened and considered publicly immediately thereafter. Specifications and any other applicable forms may be obtained by contacting Morris Welch, Compliance Inspector Team Lead, at 500 Greymont Avenue, Suite E, Jackson, Mississippi 39202. Mr. Welch can also be reached by telephone at (601) 576-4925 or by e-mail at mwelch@ogb.state.ms.us. ADVISORY: THE MISSISSIPPI OIL AND GAS

BOARD SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ISSUES RELATED TO SEALED

PROPOSALS SUBMITTED ELECTRONICALLY THROUGH THE MAGIC SYSTEM.

SHOULD ANY COMPUTER, INTERNET OR OTHER ISSUES ARISE WHICH

RENDER ELECTRONICALLY SUBMITTED PROPOSALS UNABLE TO BE OPENED,

THE MISSISSIPPI OIL AND GAS BOARD WILL PROCEED AS SCHEDULED IN

OPENING ALL OTHER SEALED PROPOSALS RECEIVED BY THE OFFICE AS OF

THE DATE AND TIME STATED ABOVE. ELECTRONICALLY SUBMITTED

PROPOSALS WILL BE STILL REVIEWED AND CONSIDERED AS SOON AS THEY

ARE ABLE TO BE OPENED.

II.

Proposals must be made in accordance with the form of proposal which may be obtained from Morris Welch, Compliance Inspector Team Lead. The form of proposal and all questions related to the proposal or bid package should be directed to Morris Welch at the address, telephone number and/or email address provided above.

III.

Proposals shall be made and received upon the following conditions:

a. Each proposal must be accompanied by a bidders bond executed by a surety company authorized to do business in the State of Mississippi, a letter of credit in a form suitable to the Supervisor, or other financial guarantee in a form suitable to the Supervisor (a company check is acceptable) in the principal amount of not less than $500.00, conditioned that if the proposal is accepted, the successful bidder will enter into a contract for the work and provide Certificate of Insurance proving coverage of general liability insurance of not less than $1,000,000.00 and mailto:mwelch@ogb.state.ms.us will execute within ten (10) days of the date of acceptance of the proposal a suitable surety bond in the sum of not less than the full amount of the contract price, conditioned upon the faithful and prompt performance and completion of the work specified in the contract or a letter of credit of such amount in a form suitable to the Supervisor.

b. All submittals of bonds, letters of credit or other financial guarantees, except that of a successful bidder, will be returned or refunded.

c. Upon acceptance of a bid, if the successful bidder fails to enter into a contract pursuant to the requirements of the Mississippi Oil and Gas

Board, or fails to give the further security prescribed in this notice within the time limit therefore, the monies standing to the credit of the same shall be forfeited to the Mississippi Oil and Gas Board as liquidated damages, or the payment of the bond shall be enforced for the benefit of the

Mississippi Oil and Gas Board.

Dated: 8/21/2024 ___________________________________

Jesse S. New, Jr.

Oil & Gas Supervisor

Mississippi Oil and Gas Board