Conduit for irrigation

Mt. Hood Community College (MHCC) Facilities Department is requesting bids to install low-voltage electrical conduit for landscape irrigation control wiring on the MHCC campus in Gresham, Oregon, with proposals due July 22, 2026 at 2:30 p.m., and a mandatory pre-proposal meeting on July 16, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. — vendors who do not attend the meeting are ineligible to bid. Bidders must be Oregon State certified, licensed, and bonded contractors in good standing with the CCB.

The scope includes underground conduit installation to replace failing low-voltage (29 VAC) direct burial irrigation control wire and 3-inch Schedule 40 PVC water pipe, with conduit paths traversing campus sidewalks and two roads. Contractors must furnish all materials unless otherwise specified, perform utility locates and traffic control, restore sites to 95% compaction with surfaces graded smooth and ready for mulch or seed, and deliver final as-built drawings in PDF or CAD format. Minimum cover depth is twelve inches for conduit and eighteen inches below roadways and waterlines. Conduit must be Schedule 40 PVC or UL 651A/NEMA TC-7 HDPE with trace wire installation.

The contract is subject to prevailing wage requirements under ORS 279C.800 to ORS 279C.870, with rates determined by the most current BOLI prevailing wage rate publication. Required insurance includes commercial general liability of not less than $1 million per occurrence, automobile liability of not less than $1 million per occurrence, and workers' compensation as required by law.

Evaluation criteria are weighted as follows: Technical Requirements & Approach (30%), Pricing & Cost Structure (25%), Warranty (25%), Vendor Experience & Past Performance (20%), and Implementation Timeline & Methodology (10%). Proposals must be submitted to Phil Parsley at Phillip.Parsley@mhcc.edu.