INVITATION TO BID

INVITATION TO BID: HAMLIN MIDDLE SCHOOL SITE
PREPARATION PROJECT
SPRINGFIELD, OR
Bids due: February 24, 2016 @ 2:00 pm
Sealed bids for the Hamlin Middle School Site Preparation Project will be received on Wednesday, February 24, 2016, until the Deadline for Bid Submission, 2:00 PM, by Gregory A. James at the Springfield School District Administration Building, 525 Mill Street, Springfield, Oregon 97477. The Bids will be opened publicly and read aloud immediately after the deadline for submission of bids. Late Bids will not be considered.
Briefly, the project involves site preparation work associated with construction of the new Hamlin Middle School, located at 326 Centennial Boulevard in Springfield, Oregon. The Work contemplated under this contract includes all labor, equipment, and services for, and incidental to, installation of new gravel access roads, gravel staging areas, and installation of a new gravel building pad area in the northeast corner of the site and related work as described in the Contract Documents. Bids will be accepted on the Bid Form included in this Project Manual.
Bidding Documents may be examined at the School District Maintenance Center, 1890 N 42nd Street, Springfield, OR 97478 or the District Purchasing Office located at 525 Mill Street, Springfield, Oregon 97477.
Bidders may obtain electronic copies at no charge from the Oregon Procurement Information Network (ORPIN) located on the web at http://orpin.oregon.gov/open.dll/ welcome. However, prime bidders must register with the Springfield School District Purchasing Office in order to be issued addenda. Addenda will be issued to directly to prime bidders and posted on ORPIN.
A Mandatory pre-bid conference has been scheduled for 3:30 PM on February 9, 2016 at the Project Site, in the Hamlin-Bond Conference room located in the portable building on the north side of the existing Hamlin Middle School facility, 326 Centennial Boulevard, Springfield, Oregon. Attendance at the pre-bid conference is a Mandatory Requirement of Bidding on this project. Tours of the project site are available after the pre-bid conference. Attendees must check-in at school offices upon arrival.
Each Bid must be submitted on the prescribed form and accompanied by a Surety Bond, Cashiers Check, or Certified Check, executed in favor of Springfield School District #19, in the amount not less than ten percent (10%) of the total project bid.
Either with the Bid submittal or within two working hours of the Deadline for Submission of Bids, bidders shall submit, on the form provided, information disclosing certain first-tier subcontractors furnishing labor or labor and materials, as provided in ORS 279C.370. Bids for which the disclosure forms are not submitted will be rejected.
No bid for a construction contract will be received or considered unless the Bidder is registered with the Construction Contractors Board or licensed by the State Landscape Contractors Board as required by ORS.671.530. A license to work with asbestos-containing materials under ORS 486A.720 is not required for this project.
Each Bid shall contain a statement indicating whether the Bidder is a “resident bidder”, as defined in ORS 279A.120. Each Bid shall contain a statement that the “Contractor agrees to be bound by and will comply with the provisions of ORS 279C.800 through 279C.870 regarding payment of Prevailing Wages”.
The selected Contractor shall certify nondiscrimination in obtaining required subcontractors, in accordance with current ORS.
Springfield School District reserves the right to (1) reject any or all Bids not in compliance with all public bidding procedures and requirements, (2) postpone award of Contract(s) for a period not to exceed sixty (60) days from the date of bid opening, (3) waive informalities in the Bids, and (4) select the Bid(s) which appear to be in the best interest of the District.
Date: January 27, 2016
By: Gregory A. James, CPPO, CPPB
Purchasing Manager Springfield
School District #19
Published Feb. 2, 2016.
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