Project # C01315

SONOMA COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS

SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
FOR CONSTRUCTION OF

 ELECTRIC METER CONVERSIONS
FOR
SEBASTOPOL ROAD
UTILITY UNDERGROUND

COUNTY PROJECT NO. C01315

Sealed bids will be received at the office of the Purchasing Agent, Room A208, 2300 County Center Drive, Santa Rosa, California 95403 on Agust 24, 2001, until the hour of 2:00 p.m. where they will be publicly opened and read aloud.

General Work Description: The work to be done consists, in general, of converting overhead electrical meter panels to underground.

The Contractor shall possess a Class A license or a Class C -10 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.

Specifications and proposal forms for bidding this project can only be obtained at the Sonoma County Department of Transportation and Public Works, 575 Administration Drive, Room 117A, Santa Rosa, California 95403, upon payment of a nonrefundable printing service charge in the following amounts:

specifications, and proposal forms = $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 Mark Wein 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 Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250) 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 1770 and following of the Labor Code, the general prevailing rate of wages has been determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations. Bidders should contact the Department of Industrial Relations at (415) 703-4774 for General Prevailing Wage Rates on specific job classifications. Future effective wage rates which have been predetermined are on file with the California Department of Industrial Relations and are referenced but not printed in the General Prevailing Wage Rates. Bidders are advised that if they intend to use a craft or classification not on file on the general wage determinations, they may be required to pay the wage rate of that craft or classification most closely related to it as shown in the general determinations.

The Purchasing Agent of Sonoma County reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive any defect or irregularity in bidding.