House Street Pedestrian Bridge Replacement at Salmon Brook

The Town of Glastonbury, Connecticut, located in Hartford County, is soliciting competitive bids for the House Street Pedestrian Bridge Replacement at Salmon Brook project (Bid #GL-2026-18). This Invitation to Bid (ITB) procurement seeks a qualified contractor to dismantle and remove the existing pedestrian bridge superstructure, then design, fabricate, furnish, and install a replacement prefabricated pedestrian bridge superstructure attached to the existing bridge abutments with reconstructed anchor bolts. The replacement bridge must be a Contech Engineered Solutions Continental Bridge with Pratt-style steel trusses, fully galvanized and painted, measuring approximately 71 feet in length (center to center of bearing), 6 feet in width, with a 1-foot 10-inch elevation difference, and featuring a horizontal picket safety railing system with 4-inch maximum spacing. Bidders must select between two pay items: timber deck configuration (pressure-treated 3-inch by 8-inch Southern Yellow Pine) or reinforced concrete deck configuration (minimum 4,500 psi compressive strength), each priced on a lump sum basis including all permits, materials, equipment, labor, temporary supports, bearing pads, installation, traffic control signage, and site restoration. The project must be completed within 30 calendar days from the Notice to Proceed, excluding the winter shutdown period from December 1 through March 31, with liquidated damages assessed at $850 per calendar day for delays. Qualified bidders must demonstrate successful experience with three similar pedestrian bridge replacement projects and must comply with Connecticut prevailing wage requirements under General Statutes Section 31-53, with wage rates effective as of December 31, 2025. Bids were due on January 29, 2026 at 11:00 a.m. EST, submitted online through https://glastonburyct.bonfirehub.com/, accompanied by a bid bond in an amount not less than 10 percent of the base bid, with the bid opening held via Zoom on January 29, 2026 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time.

The solicitation is open to all vendors with no identified set-asides or restrictions based on disadvantaged enterprise status or organizational type. All structural steel fabricators must hold AISC Quality Certification for Intermediate Steel Bridge Structures, and all design and fabrication work must be sealed by a Connecticut-licensed Professional Engineer in accordance with AASHTO LRFD specifications. The successful bidder will be required to provide 100 percent performance and labor and material payment bonds in the full amount of the agreed contract price prior to issuance of a purchase order, and must submit comprehensive working drawings, design computations, detailed bridge erection and dismantling plans with crane specifications, welding procedures, and a fracture control plan. No incumbent vendor or current contractor information is identified in the solicitation documents. The Town reserves the right to award based on either the base bid for timber deck construction or the alternate bid for concrete deck construction, selecting whichever option results in the lowest qualified bidder total project cost. Municipal police officers and uniformed flaggers are required for traffic control operations, with police services paid at actual hourly rates plus 5 percent markup and flagger services paid at contract unit rates per hour. Retainage shall be withheld at five percent and released upon final project acceptance; however, no specific budget range or award value is disclosed in the solicitation documents.