SONOMA COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS
SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA
NOTICE
TO CONTRACTORS
FOR CONSTRUCTION OF
FEDERAL
AID PROJECT NO. STPLZ-5920(076)
SEISMIC RETROFIT
OF
RUSSIAN RIVER BRIDGE (20C-016)
ON
MOSCOW ROAD
(ROAD NO. 7004)
COUNTY
PROJECT NO. C01149,
P.M. 10.13-10.29
Sealed
bids will be received at the office of the Clerk of
the Board of Supervisors, Room 100A, 575 Administration Drive, Santa Rosa,
California 95403
on June 7, 2002, until the hour of 3:00 p.m.
(according to the wall clock in the reception area of
the office of the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors). They then will be transferred to a
predetermined meeting room designated by the Sonoma
County Department of Transportation and Public Works
where they will be publicly opened and read aloud by
the Sonoma County Director of Transportation and
Public Works or his designee. Said bids will be
referred to the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors for
consideration at their next regularly scheduled
meeting, on or before July 9, 2002.
General
Work Description: The work to be done consists, in general, of
installing seismic retrofit upgrades at the Moscow
Road Bridge over the Russian River at Duncan Mills as
shown on the Plans.
Bidders
are urged to obtain disadvantaged business enterprise
(DBE) participation on this project, although there is
no specific goal for DBE participation.
This
project is subject to the "Buy America"
provisions of the Surface Transportation Assistance
Act of 1982 as amended by the Intermodal Surface
Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991.
The
Contractor shall possess a Class A license at the time of contract award.
Bids
are required for the entire work described herein.
This contract is subject to state contract
nondiscrimination and compliance requirements pursuant
to Government Code §12990.
Plans, specifications,
and proposal forms for bidding this project can only
be obtained at the Sonoma County Department of
Transportation and Public Works, 2300 County Center
Drive, Suite B100, Santa Rosa, California 95403,
upon payment of a nonrefundable printing service
charge in the following amounts:
half size plans, specifications, and proposal
forms = $30.00 (including sales tax)
full size plans, specifications, and proposal
forms = $50.00 (including sales tax)
full size plans (only) = $20.00 (including sales tax)
Checks
shall be made payable to the County of Sonoma, and
shall be mailed or delivered in person to the
Department of Transportation and Public Works.
Technical
questions should be directed to Jack Cunningham at the
Department of Transportation and Public Works, phone: (707) 565-2231.
The
successful bidder shall furnish both a payment bond
and a performance bond for the full amount of the
contract.
The
County of Sonoma hereby notifies all bidders that it
will affirmatively ensure that in any contract entered
into pursuant to this advertisement, disadvantaged
business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity
to submit bids in response to this invitation and will
not be discriminated against on the grounds of race,
color, sex, national origin or other prohibited basis
in consideration for an award.
Liquidated
damages in the amount of Five Hundred Fifty Dollars
($550) will be assessed for each and every calendar
day's delay in finishing the work in excess of the
number of working days prescribed in the contract.
Pursuant
to Section 1773 and following of the Labor Code, the
general prevailing rate of wages in the county, or
counties, in which the work is to be done has been
determined by the Director of the California
Department of Industrial Relations. These wages are set forth in the General
Prevailing Wage Rates for this project, available at
the California Department of Industrial Relations'
Internet web site at http://www.dir.ca.gov. The Federal minimum wage rates for this project
as predetermined by the United States Secretary of
Labor are set forth in the books issued for bidding
purposes entitled "Proposal and Contract,"
and in copies of this book that may be examined at the
offices described above where project plans, Special
Provisions, and proposal forms may be seen. Addenda to modify the Federal minimum wage
rates, if necessary, will be issued to holders of
"Proposal and Contract" books. Future effective general prevailing wage rates
which have been predetermined and are on file with the
California Department of Industrial Relations are
referenced but not printed in the general prevailing
wage rates.
Attention
is directed to the federal minimum wage rate
requirements in said books issued for bidding purposes
entitled "Proposal and Contract." If there is a difference between the minimum
wage rates predetermined by the Secretary of Labor and the general
prevailing wage rates determined by the Director of
the California Department of Industrial Relations for similar
classifications of labor, the contractor and
subcontractors shall pay not less than the higher wage rate. The department will not accept lower state wage rates not
specifically included in the federal minimum wage
determinations. This
includes "helper" (or other classifications
based on hours of
experience) or any other classification not appearing
in the federal wage determinations. Where federal wage determinations do not contain
the state
wage rate determination otherwise available for use by
the contractor and subcontractors, the contractor and
subcontractors shall pay not less than the federal
minimum wage rate which most closely approximates the
duties of the employees in question.
The
U. S. Department of Transportation (DOT) provides a
toll-free "hotline" service to report bid
rigging activities. Bid rigging activities can be reported Mondays
through Fridays, between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.,
eastern time, Telephone No. 1-800-424-9071. Anyone with knowledge of possible bid, bidder
collusion, or other fraudulent activities should use
the "hotline" to report these activities. The "hotline" is part of the DOT's
continuing effort to identify and investigate highway
construction contract fraud and abuse and is operated
under the direction of the DOT Inspector General. All information will be treated confidentially
and caller anonymity will be respected.
The
Board of Supervisors of the Sonoma County reserves the
right to reject any or all bids and to waive any
defect or irregularity in bidding.
BY
ORDER OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
OF SONOMA COUNTY
By: Eeve T. Lewis
County Clerk and
ex-officio Clerk of
the Board of
Supervisors of the County
of Sonoma, State
of California
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