Community park pickleball courts

Upper Mount Bethel Township in Northampton County, Pennsylvania is procuring construction services for the complete furnishing and installation of pickleball courts at the Township Community Park located at 1535 Potomac Street, Mount Bethel, Pennsylvania. The project scope includes the installation of asphalt pavement with a Superpave base course (PG 64S-22, 25.0 MM mix, 3" depth) covering approximately 530 square yards, an asphalt wearing course (PG 64S-22, 9.5 MM mix, 1" depth) covering 530 square yards, and 276 linear feet of 8-foot-tall black PVC-coated chain link fencing with 2 gates, with court coatings, paint, line striping, supports, posts, and nets considered incidental to the contract pay items. Bids will be received online through PennBid at https://pennbid.bonfirehub.com until 11:00 AM prevailing time on Thursday, March 19, 2026, with no pre-bid meeting scheduled. Each bid submission must be accompanied by either a certified check or a Bid Bond equal to 5 percent of the total bid price drawn to the order of Upper Mount Bethel Township. Contractors must submit a Contractor's Qualification Statement (CQS) providing detailed information regarding general business operations, major engineered construction projects completed within the past five years, current projects under construction, bonding capacity, construction experience of principal individuals, and banking references. The successful contractor must complete the work within ninety calendar days after issuance of the formal Notice to Proceed, with substantial completion targeted at forty-five calendar days and final payment readiness at one hundred eighty-two calendar days, and failure to meet the completion schedule will result in liquidated damages of two hundred dollars per calendar day of delay.

This project constitutes Public Works by a Public Body under the Pennsylvania Prevailing Wage Act, requiring all workers employed on the project to receive prevailing minimum wage rates as promulgated by the Pennsylvania Secretary of Labor, and all contractors and subcontractors must execute a Public Works Employment Verification Act (EVAF) form prior to contract award and participate in the E-Verify Program operated by the Department of Homeland Security to verify employment eligibility for all new employees within five business days of hire. No specific set-aside designations for disadvantaged enterprises or minority-owned businesses are identified in the procurement documents. The successful bidder must submit a Performance Bond and Payment Bond each equal to one hundred percent of the contract price and a Maintenance Bond equal to ten percent of the contract price covering a one-year maintenance period within ten days of official notice of bid acceptance. No incumbent vendors or current contractors are identified, and the Township will provide excavation and placement of the 2A stone subbase prior to contract work. The specific award value or budget range for this project is not disclosed in the available documentation; the contract will be awarded to the responsible bidder submitting the lowest responsive bid based on competitive bidding, and Upper Mount Bethel Township reserves the right to reject any and all bids and waive any bidding informalities. No bids may be withdrawn within sixty days of the bid opening date.