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 April 7, 2006, April
11, 2006, until the hour of 2:00
p.m. 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 the a
designated meeting room 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 May 2, 2006.
General Work Description: The
work to be done consists, in general, of construction
of approximately three miles of sewers, three miles of
water system, roadway grading and drainage within the
boundaries of the Canon Manor West Subdivision. The improvements also include construction of
various sewer lines (gravity lines and a force main)
and a pump station in the City of Rohnert Park, and
other items or details, not mentioned above, that are
required by the plans, Standard Specifications, or these Special Provisions shall be
performed, placed, constructed or installed.
Contractors
are hereby given notice that this is a
joint-development project, subject to the terms and
conditions of the Canon Manor Cost sharing Agreement,
which is Appendix A to the Special Provisions. Contractors are further given notice that
County may not issue a Notice of Completion for this
project until the City of Rohnert Part reviews and
accepts all work, as is set forth in paragraph 13 of
the Canon Manor Cost Sharing Agreement.
The
Department of Transportation and Public Works has a 7%
overall disadvantaged business participation goal.
This
Federal Aid project has a goal of 7 percent
disadvantaged business 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 with a
Hazardous Substance Removal Certification 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 =
$150.00 (including sales tax)
full size plans (only) = $100.00 (including sales tax)
full size plans, specifications and proposal
forms =
$200.00 (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 shall be mailed or faxed to John Maitland
and Kevin Howze at the Sonoma County Department of
Transportation and Public Works, 2300 County Center
Drive, Suite B100, Santa Rosa, California 95403, FAX: (707)
565-2620. Responsibility to confirm County possessing Bidder's written
question rests with the Bidder.
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 Four Thousand Dollars
($4,000.00) 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
Schedule A work.
Liquidated
damages in the amount of Six Thousand Dollars
($6,000.00) 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
Schedule B work.
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.
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