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                                                                                                       CONSOLIDATED SEWER DISTRICT

                                                                   Brewerton WWTP  SERVICE AREA SEWER IMPROVEMENTS

                                                                                                                           CONTRACT NO. 4

                                                                                                                           TOWN OF CICERO

                                                                                                       ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK 

The Town of Cicero will receive sealed Bids for the Consolidated Sewer District Brewerton WWTP Service Area Sewer Improvements – Contract No. 4.  Bids will be received and publicly opened and read at the following place and time:

PLACE:

Town of Cicero

8236 Brewerton Road

Cicero, New York 13039

DATE:                    April 29, 2021

TIME:                    11:00 AM

Bids received by the Town after the time specified for the bid opening will be date stamped as evidence of late arrival and returned to the bidder unopened.  The bidder assumes the risk of any delays in the United States Postal Service or any other delivery service. The time stamp provided by the Cicero Town Clerk’s office is designated the official timepiece for submission of bids.

The project includes open-cut replacement of approximately 1,200 feet of 8-inch sewer piping and the rehabilitation of approximately 6,000 feet of 8-inch and 12-inch diameter sanitary sewer piping using pressure testing and grouting, and manhole rehabilitation for sanitary sewers located throughout Oneida Park and Harbor Village within the Town of Cicero, Onondaga County, New York.

The project is funded (in part) by Onondaga County and the New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation.

The Contract Documents may be viewed and ordered through the Avalon Plan Room website at: www.avalonplanroom.com in the “Public Bid” section.  If you do not have internet access or have questions on ordering from the site, please contact Shawn Thrall with Avalon Document Services at (315) 471-3333.  Contract

Documents can be picked up at any of Avalon Document Services locations.

A non-refundable deposit of Twenty Dollars ($20.00) payable to Avalon Document Services will be required to obtain a USB flash drive or download rights of the Contract Documents (Project Manual, Contract Drawings) and Sanitary Sewer Inspection Logs Information to Bidders.  The payment includes shipping and tax.  By submission of the $20.00 non-refundable payment, bidder will be registered as an official plan holder.  Only official plan holders are eligible to bid on the project.  Subcontractors, suppliers, equipment vendors, etc. will also be required to submit the non-refundable payment to receive the Contract Documents.

If bidders wish to purchase printed copies of the Contract Documents, they may be obtained directly through Avalon Document Services.  Only official plan holders will be allowed to obtain printed copies of the Contract Documents.  Bidders acknowledge that they are responsible for review of all components of the Contract Documents.  Including all specification sections and drawings, regardless of how many drawings they print and in which format/size they are printed.  Full-size Contract Drawings are on 22-inch X 34-inch paper.  Bidders acknowledge they are responsible for properly scaling drawings if they are printed at any other size.

The Owner is exempt from the payment of sales and compensating use taxes of the State of New York and of cities and counties on all mate­rials, equipment and supplies sold to the Owner pursuant to this Con­tract.  Also exempt from such taxes are purchases by the Contrac­tor and his Subcontractors of materials, equipment and supplies to be sold to the Owner pursuant to this Contract, including tangible person­al proper­ty to be incorporated in any structure, building or other real property forming part of the Project.  These taxes are not to be in­cluded in the Bid.

Questions during the bid period shall be directed to Mr. Daniel W. Rooney, PE, Ramboll, (315) 956-6359, or via email at daniel.rooney@ramboll.com.

A pre-bid conference will not be held.

Each Bid must be accompanied by cash, certified check, cashier’s check or bid bond in an amount not less than five percent (5%) of the amount of the Bid in the form and subject to the conditions provided in the Instructions to Bidders.

Owner: Town of Cicero

Date: ­­­    March 28, 2021