FURNISHING AND DELIVERING SODIUM HYDROXIDE

I - 1 NOTICE INVITATION TO BID TO METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO FOR FURNISHING AND DELIVERING SODIUM HYDROXIDE CONTRACT 23-935-11 PROPOSALS ARE DUE DECEMBER 13, 2022 Sealed proposals, endorsed as above, will be submitted back to the District via an electronic upload to the Bonfire Portal only, from the date of the Invitation to Bid, up to 11:00 A.M. (central time zone), on the bid opening date, and will be opened publicly by the Director of Procurement and Materials Management or designee at 11:00 AM on December 13, 2022. The public cannot attend but can view the bid opening at https://mwrd.org/bid- opening. NO BIDS WILL BE ACCEPTED AFTER 11:00 AM ON THE ABOVE- SCHEDULED BID OPENING DATE. ALL BIDS FAXED, MAILED, E-MAILED, OR HAND DELIVERED WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED AND WILL BE RETURNED TO THE BIDDER. THERE IS NO BID DEPOSITORY SAFE AVAILABLE FOR MAILING OR HAND DELIVERING BIDS. THE DISTRICT

WILL ONLY ACCEPT BIDS ELECTRONICALLY UPLOADED TO THE BONFIRE PORTAL (HTTPS://MWRD.BONFIREHUB.COM/). PLEASE SEE SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO UPLOAD YOUR BID TO THE BONFIRE PORTAL IN THE BID DOCUMENT ENTITLED “SUBMISSION VIA THE BONFIRE PORTAL.” Tenders are invited to furnish and deliver sodium hydroxide to the Stickney Water Reclamation Plant, for a thirteen (13) month period. The Contract is divided, for purposes of bidding, into three (3) Items. Bidders must submit bids for all three (3) Items or the bid will be rejected as non-responsive. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District intends to issue one (1) purchase order to one (1) Contractor for all of the material to be furnished under this Contract. The estimated cost of this Contract is $752,000.00. The bid deposit for this Contract is $37,600.00. Each Proposal must be accompanied by a bid deposit in the form of a bid bond. Please see page P-3 in the Contract Documents for additional information. Funding of all Contract items is subject to the Board of Commissioners’ approval of the District’s budget for all years under this Contract. I - 2 Specifications, proposal forms and/or plans may be obtained from the Department of Procurement and Materials Management by downloading online from the District's website at www.mwrd.org (Doing Business  Procurement & Materials Management  Contract Announcements). No fee is required for the Contract Documents. Any questions regarding the downloading of the Contract Document should be directed to the following email: contractdesk@mwrd.org or call 312-751-6643. Further, the District assumes no liability or responsibility for the failure or inability of any Bidder to successfully download any and all Contract documents, including but not limited to specifications, proposal forms and/or plans, as a result of any type of technological computer and/or software system failure or breakdown that restricts, prohibits or prevents successful downloading of any and all District Contract documents by the Bidder, whether caused by the District or other parties, directly or indirectly. Bidding documents are only available online, and all addenda issued for this Contract will be available online at the District’s website, www.mwrd.org. The path is as follows: Doing Business  Procurement and Materials Management  Contract Announcements. A copy of such addenda will also be emailed/faxed to each person which downloads a set of such Contract documents. Any Proposal which indicates multiple or alternate bids will be deemed non-responsive and will be rejected by the Director of Procurement and Materials Management. Proposals shall conform to all the terms and conditions of the Bidding Requirements attached hereto. If any potential Bidder contemplating to submit a proposal is in doubt as to the true meaning of any part of the specifications or other Contract documents, such inquiry should be submitted online at the District’s website, www.mwrd.org. The path is as follows: Doing Business  Procurement and Materials Management  Contract Announcements. The District will provide an online response to such inquiries, as the District deems appropriate. Strings of appropriate questions and answers regarding the bidding documents will be available online on the District’s website until the bid opening date of the bidding documents. No questions will be accepted by telephone, fax, email, mail, or any other such form of delivery. The District will only respond to questions received online up to ONE WEEK prior to the bid opening date of the bidding documents. The District will not respond to questions received after this date. The District does not guarantee the timeliness of responses provided online, nor does the District guarantee that such responses will be provided in adequate time to affect the submission of bids. The District shall provide responses online ONLY if the responses do not interpret or otherwise change the bidding documents. http://www.mwrd.org/ mailto:contractdesk@mwrd.org http://www.mwrd.org/ http://www.mwrd.org/ I - 3 The District’s responses online are NOT official responses and, therefore, are not binding to the bidding documents. Any official interpretation or change to the bidding documents will be made only by addenda duly issued to all plan holders on record by the Director of Procurement and Materials Management. Failure on the part of the prospective bidder to receive a written interpretation prior to the time of the opening of bids will not be grounds for withdrawal of proposal. The Resident Engineer for this Contract is Ms. Debbra Hill. Ms. Hill will provide online responses to online inquiries. Bidders are STRONGLY URGED to inspect all areas of the work sites prior to bidding, in order to familiarize themselves with the nature of the work and the method of accomplishing the same. To schedule an appointment to inspect the work sites, prospective Bidders may contact the Resident Engineer, Ms. Debbra Hill, at (708)588-4158, between the hours of 8:00 A.M. and 3:00 P.M., Monday through Friday. Bidders shall take special note of the stipulations on page G-4, under Interpretation of Contract Documents, in regards to questions on this Contract. All Contracts for the Construction of Public Works are subject to the Illinois Prevailing Wage Act (820 ILCS 130/1-12). The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago reserves the right to reject any or all Proposals. Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago By Darlene A. LoCascio Director of Procurement and Materials Management Chicago, Illinois November 23, 2022