24-41 BID - Public Works Seismic Retrofit

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City of Mercer Island

Project Title:  Public Works Seismic Retrofit
Bid Number:  24-41
Engineers Estimated Cost: $935,000 - 1,025,000

Bidders shall submit their bids in PDF format to the Public Works email address at: bids@mercerisland.gov.  Sealed bids will be received, not sent, electronically by the City until 2 pm on December 16, 2024.  There will be no public bid opening for this project. Bid results will be posted on the City’s web page at: https://www.mercerisland.gov/rfps.

Bidder questions are to be directed to Alaine Sommargren, Deputy Public Works Director, by email only at alaine.sommargren@mercerisland.gov. The City will receive questions until 5 pm on December 9, 2024. Questions received after this date will not be answered. All questions and responses will be posted in an addendum by December 12, 2024 to the Builders Exchange site.

A mandatory Pre-Bid Walk-through will be held on December 3, 2024 at 1 pm. Meet in the main parking lot at 9611 SE 36th St. The City, at its sole discretion, may schedule an additional pre-bid walk through.

Work to be performed under this contract includes but is not limited to: Green roof and asphaltic roof assembly removal, structural seismic retrofits including concrete grade beams, rough carpentry, and bracing select unbraced masonry walls, the installation of new roof assemblies and the replacement of roof areas selectively removed, the installation of stormwater conveyances, and the installation of site fencing and weighted fall prevention systems.

The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to waive minor irregularities. 

This project is being supported, in whole or in part, by federal award number CSLFRF WA0763 awarded to the City of Mercer Island by the U.S. Department of the Treasury. 

Plans, specifications, addenda, and bidders list are available on-line through Builders Exchange of Washington, Inc. at http://www.bxwa.com. Click on “Posted Projects”, “Public Works”, “City of Mercer Island”, “Projects Bidding”. Builders Exchange manages the official bidders list. Bidders are encouraged to register in order to receive automatic email notification of future addenda and to be placed on the official bidders list. Plans and specifications are also available at the City of Mercer Island website https://www.mercerisland.gov/rfps. Addenda may not be available or updated on this website. 

A bid deposit in the amount of five percent (5%) of the bid total price must accompany each bid.

The City of Mercer Island, in accordance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. 252, 42

U.S.C. 2000d to 2000d-4 and Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, Department of Transportation, Subtitle A, Office of the Secretary, Part 21, Nondiscrimination in Federally-assisted programs of the Department of Transportation issued pursuant to such Act, hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively ensure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, disadvantaged business enterprises as defined at 49 CFR Part 23 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, national origin, or sex in consideration for an award.

Andrea Larson, CMC
City Clerk

Published:  Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce – November 20, 2024 and November 27, 2024