ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

Project: Hertford WWTP Rehabilitation

Owner: Town of Hertford 114 West Grubb Street, PO Box 32, Hertford, NC 27944

Engineer: WithersRavenel 167 E. Chatham Street, Suite 210, Cary, NC 27511

The Town of Hertford will receive separate sealed formal bids for the Hertford WWTP Rehabilitation at Hertford Municipal Building, located at 114B West Grubb Street, Hertford, NC 27944, until Monday, September, 28, 2026 2:00 PM, local prevailing time, at which time the Bids received will be publicly opened and read. Bids received after this time will not be accepted. To participate in the virtual Bid Opening, you must email Kim Griggs at kgriggs@withersravenel.com by 10:00 am local time Friday, September, 25, 2026- 1 day prior to September 28, 2026 to be provided with the information to join the meeting.

The project will consist of the rehabilitation and replacement of multiple items at the Hertford Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP). Work at the headworks will include replacement of the grit removal system, one (1) influent pump, one (1) VFD, and modifications to the associated electrical. The oxidation ditch modifications will include concrete rehabilitation of the structure, as well as replacement of three (3) mud valves, three (3) knife gates, three (3) sluice gates, a weir gate, and a rotating plate weir. The oxidation ditch will also be fitted with two additional catwalks to allow for maintenance of the brush aerators. Modifications to the splitter box will include the replacement of all three (3) of the slide gates. The telescoping valve in the sludge holding basin will be removed and replaced. The fine bubble aeration system will be replaced in the aerobic digester. At the chlorine contact basin and effluent pump station the disc filters will be removed, the two (2) slide gates will be replaced, three (3) check valves will be replaced, one (1) effluent pump, three (3) VFDs, and the associated electrical. Replacing the SCADA and the addition of a security system are also included under this project.

A Pre-Bid Conference will be held on Wednesday, September, 9, 2026, at 11:00AM local time, virtually, and at the Hertford Community Center, located at 305 West Grubb Street, Hertford, NC 27944. Interested parties are encouraged to attend this conference to review the plans, ask for additional information or clarification, and to visit the project site. Attendance at the Pre-Bid-Conference is highly encouraged but is not mandatory.

To participate in the virtual Pre-Bid Conference, you must email Kim Griggs at kgriggs@withersravenel.com by 10:00 am local time Tuesday, September, 8, 2026- 1 day prior to September 9, 2026 to be provided with the information to join the meeting.

Complete digital bidding documents are available at http://withersravenel.com/bid/ or www.questcdn.com. You may download the digital documents for $25.00 by inputting Quest project #10332299 on the website’s search page. Please contact QuestCDN.com at (952) 233-1632 or info@questcdn.com for assistance in membership registration, downloading, and working with this digital project information.

All questions related to this bid shall be submitted in writing to Kim Griggs at kgriggs@withersravenel.com by

4:00PM local time on September 16, 2026 to receive consideration. Questions received after that time will not be answered or accepted. A Final Addendum will be provided prior to the Bid Date.

Bidders are responsible for ensuring receipt of their bid by the stated date and time. Bidders are responsible for the review of any addenda for the project and shall acknowledge the addenda on the bid form.

Each bid shall be accompanied with a cash deposit or certified check drawn on a bank or trust company insured by the FDIC or a Bid Bond prepared on the form Bid Bond contained in the Bidding Documents or a Surety Company’s standard form and property executed by a corporate surety licensed under the laws of North Carolina to execute such bonds. The amount of bid bond shall be equal to five (5) percent of the total of the bid.

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Bidders are responsible for ensuring receipt of their bid by the stated date and time. Bidders are responsible for the review of any addenda for the project and shall acknowledge the addenda on the bid form. To qualify, all bids shall be submitted using bid forms contained in the Contract Documents. Incomplete or segregated bids will not be accepted. All bids must be accompanied by a certified or cashier's check or bid bond in the amount of 5% of the total amount bid made payable to the Owner (Town of Hertford). The bid deposit shall be retained by the Owner if the successful bidder fails to execute contracts or fails to provide the required bonds, as stated above, within ten (10) days after the proper notice of award of the contract. No bid shall be withdrawn for a period of 90 consecutive calendar days after bid opening except as provided in Information for Bidders. Bidders must show evidence that they are licensed to perform the work in the Bid Documents as required by the North Carolina General Statutes Chapter 87. The Owner reserves the right to reject any/all bids, to waive formalities, or to reject non-conforming, non-responsive, or conditional bids. The Owner reserves the right to award a contract to the lowest, responsive, responsible bidder or bidders, taking into consideration quality, performance, and time.

The Owner is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, handicap/disability, age, or familial status. The Owner encourages bidding from small, minority and female (M/WBE), disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE), historically underutilized businesses (HUB), Veteran-Owned, businesses owned by low and moderate-income persons, and those businesses that offer employment, training and contracting opportunities in accordance with Section 3 of the Housing and Urban

Development Act of 1968. Bidders shall be required to submit with their Bids affidavits of “Good Faith Efforts” in the recruitment of MBEs. Bidders must comply with the Executive Orders 11246 and 11375 Title VI of the Civil

Rights Act of 1964, the Anti-Kickback Act, the Contract Work Hours and Safety Standard Act, Davis-Bacon Related

Acts, American Iron and Steel Provisions, Build American Buy American provisions, and 2 CFR 200 Uniform

Guidance. The work will be subject to the prevailing wage rates established by the U.S. Department of Labor.

No contract may be awarded to any contractor that is debarred, suspended or otherwise ineligible to participate in Federally assisted contracts or programs. Any contract awarded to a prime contractor or subcontractor that is found to be ineligible for award must be terminated immediately. Prior to contract award prime contractors are to be actively registered, with no exclusions, with SAM.gov and not on NC Debarred Vendors list, to determine eligibility/debarment status.

This project is subject to the Build America, Buy America Act (BABA) requirements under Title IX of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (“IIJA”), Pub. L. 177-58. Absent an approved waiver, all iron, steel, manufactured products, and construction materials used in this project must be produced in the United States, as further outlined by the Office of Management and Budget’s Memorandum M-22-11, Initial Implementation Guidance on Application of Buy America Preference in Federal Financial Assistance Programs for Infrastructure, April 18, 2022.

This project is funded with a portion of $1.5 million of CWSRF and $3 million of CDBG-I awards administered by the NC Division or Water Infrastructure.

This information is available in Spanish or any other language upon request. Please contact Town Manager Doris

Walton at 252-426-5311 or 114 B West Grubb Street (Physical); PO Box 32 (Mailing), Hertford, NC 27944 for accommodations for this request. Esta información está disponible en español o en cualquier otro idioma bajo petición. Por favor, póngase en contacto con Town Manager Doris Walton al 252-426-5311 o en 114 B West Grubb

Street (Physical); PO Box 32 (Mailing), Hertford, NC 27944, de alojamiento para esta comunicado.

Doris Walton, Town Manager