NOTICE INVITING SEALED BIDS

CITY OF WESTMORLAND

WESTMORLAND DWR/SCDR GRANT #4600015451

WATER DISTRIBUTION PIPING REPLACEMENT PROJECT

BID NO. 2025-01

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Westmorland, as CITY, invites sealed bids for the above stated project and will receive such bids in the City’s offices at 355 S. Center St., Westmorland, California 92281 up to the hour of 2:00 P.M. Thursday, April 10, 2025, at which time they will be publicly opened and read aloud. A bid summary will then be prepared and posted.

The work consists generally of the removal & disposal of existing A.C. pavement as needed for removal of existing valves, abandonment-in-place and capping of piping, placing new water piping, and restoring residential services and existing fire hydrants to service.  New water valves and complete piping assemblies with related fittings are to be installed. Trenches and excavated areas are to be backfilled and native material or new A.C. Pavement/Base are to be placed as called for in the plans and specifications around water valve cans.  Water valve cans are to be adjusted to grade. Existing utilities are to be protected in place.  Traffic control and safety measures, as needed, are required, including steel plates to cover trenches in street intersections where needed.  Written or verbal notification is to be provided to all who may be affected by water outage and road closures.

Bid packages are available at City Hall, 355 S. Center Street, Westmorland, California 92281 upon payment of a $100.00 non-refundable fee ($120.00 if mailed), or they may be obtained in digital form from the City’s website.

Any contract entered into pursuant to this notice will incorporate the provisions of the State Labor Code of the State of California. Compliance with the State prevailing rates of wages and apprenticeship employment standards and the State director of Industrial Relations will be required. Affirmative action to ensure against discrimination in employment practices on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, or religion will also be required.

The goals and timetables for minority and female participation, expressed in percentage terms for the Contractor’s aggregate workforce in each trade on all construction work in the covered areas are as follows:

Goals for Minority Participation in each trade: 18.2%

Goals for Female Participation in each trade: 6.9%

These goals are applicable to all contractor’s construction work performed in the covered area. If the Contractor performs construction work in a geographical area outside of the covered area, it shall apply to the goals established for such geographical area where the work is actually performed. With regard to this second area, the Contractor also is subject to the goals for both its Federally involved and non-Federally involved construction.

The Contractor’s compliance shall be based on its implementation of the Equal Opportunity Clause, specific affirmative action obligations required by the specifications and its efforts to meet the goals established for the geographical area where the contract resulting from the solicitation is to be performed. The hours of minority and female employment and training must be substantially uniform through the duration of the contract, and in each trade, and the Contractor shall make a good faith effort to employ women and minority individuals evenly on each of its projects.

The transfer of minority or female employees or trainees from contractor to contractor or from project to project for the sole purpose of meeting the Contractor’s goals shall be a violation of the contract.

Compliance with the goals will be measured against the total work hours performed.

As used in this notice, and in the contract resulting from this solicitation, the “covered area” is in the City of Westmorland in Imperial County.

The project is subject to all applicable Federal, State, County, and local government laws and regulations, including air quality, waste recycling, and DWR/SCDR standard requirements for public improvement projects.

The contract documents call for monthly payments based upon the engineer's estimate of the work completed. The City of Westmorland will retain 5 percent of each progress payment as security for completion of the balance of the work. At the request and expense of the successful bidder, the City will pay the amounts so retained upon compliance with the requirements of Public Contract Code Section 22300 and the provisions of the contract documents pertaining to Substitution of Securities.

Bids must be prepared on the approved proposal forms in conformance with the Instructions to Bidders and submitted in a sealed envelope plainly marked on the outside; ATTN: CITY OF WESTMORLAND: SEALED BID FOR “WESTMORLAND DWR/SCDR GRANT #4600015451 WATER DISTRIBUTION PIPING REPLACEMENT PROJECT  BID NO.  2025-01.”

A pre-bid meeting will be held at Westmorland City Hall, 355 S. Center St., Westmorland at 10 a.m. on Thursday, March 27, 2025.

The City of Westmorland reserves the right to reject any or all bids, to award each item separately, delete portions of the work, and/or waive any informality on any bid. No bid may be withdrawn for 60 days after the time set for the opening thereof.

Failure by the successful bidder to enter into a contract with the City or to deliver goods and/or services in accordance with the bid may result in a declaration by the City that the bidder is not a responsible bidder, and elimination from consideration in future bidding.

At the time of contract award, the prime contractor shall possess a Class "A" contractor's license and/or any combination of "C" specialty contractors license(s) sufficient to perform the work.

Dated this    20^th day of March, 2025.

By:    Christine Pisch, City Clerk, City of Westmorland

Questions may be submitted to:

City of Westmorland

P.O. Box 699

355 S. Center St.

Westmorland, CA 92281

Email: joelhamby@roadrunner.com

(760) 344-3411

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