SECTION 00 11 13 ADVERTISEMENT TO BID HUNTINGTON SANITARY BOARD HUNTINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT IMPROVEMENTS SRF NO. C 544788/ IJDC NO. 2022S 2245 CONTRACT 1 2025 Huntington Sanitary Board (OWNER) is requesting Bids for the construction of the following Project: Wastewater Treatment Plant Improvements SRF No. C 544788/ IJDC No. 2022S 2245 Contract 1 2025 Electronic Bids for the construction of the Project will be received by OWNER until Thursday, May 15, 2025, at 2 p.m., Eastern Standard Time. At that time the Bids received will be publicly downloaded and read aloud via teleconference. The login information for the teleconference is as follows: (309) 205 3325, Conference ID 983 7775 6248. The Project includes the following Work: Construction of a new Headworks Building with flow metering, multirake fine screening, screenings washing, tray type grit collection, grit pumping, grit washing, odor control, and sampling; rehabilitation of the existing activated sludge tanks and retrofit of the existing rectangular secondary clarifiers into activated sludge tanks with a splitter structure, new channels, compressed air channel mixing system, anoxic selector zones, nitrate recycle pumps, compressed air mixing and fine bubble air aeration system and six new high speed turbo aeration blowers; rehabilitation of an existing aeration tank tunnel structure; construction of a new mixed liquor splitter structure; construction of four new 140 foot diameter final clarifiers with new return activated sludge (RAS), waste activated sludge (WAS), scum and drainage pumping systems; retrofit of the existing chlorine contact tanks with ultraviolet disinfection equipment; construction of a new effluent pumping station with five axial propeller effluent pumps, effluent metering, post aeration, and sampling; refurbishment of two existing circular gravity thickeners and installation of four new rotary lobe type thickened waste activated sludge (TWAS) pumping; refurbishment of two existing primary clarifiers to TWAS storage tanks with compressed air mixing and fine bubble air aeration; construction of a new TWAS Building, including installation of two new rotary lobe centrifuge feed pumps and macerators; construction of a new Solids Processing Building, including installation of new dewatering equipment consisting of two new centrifuges, liquid polymer storage and feed systems, and shaftless screw conveying systems, and a new sludge drying system consisting of a moving bottom sludge feed hopper, progressing cavity cake sludge pump, sludge dryer with thermal boiler, nitrogen system, odor control system, cooling conveyor, drag chain conveyor, and silo and unloading conveyor; construction of a new Administration Building with offices, locker rooms, and laboratory spaces; construction of a new submersible pumping station and modifications to an existing submersible pumping station; relocation of septage receiving equipment; installation of a new disinfected plant effluent water system, including booster pumps, strainers, and hydropneumatics tanks; installation of new slide and sluice gates in new and existing structures; installation of interior process, plumbing, fire protection piping, and appurtenances; interior painting and finishing work; heating, ventilating, and air conditioning work; site work, including micropiles for the secondary clarifiers and associated piping, site grading and landscaping, stormwater management facilities, paving and roadway improvements, fencing replacement, and installation of buried small and large diameter piping and appurtenances; electrical and controls work, including a new service entrance switchgear, interior and exterior lighting, controls, instrumentation, and SCADA; and demolition work. Complete digital Project Bidding Documents are available at www.strand.com or at www.questcdn.com. Download the digital Bidding Documents for $75 by inputting Quest project number 9437188 on the website’s project search page. Please contact QuestCDN.com at (952) 233 1632 or [email protected] for assistance with free membership registration, downloading, and working with this digital Project information. For this Project, Bids will ONLY be received and accepted via the online electronic Bid service through QuestCDN.com. To access the electronic Bid Form, download the Project Documents and click the Online Bidding button. The Issuing Office is Strand Associates, Inc. , 910 West Wingra Drive, Madison, WI 53715. Paper copies of the Bidding Documents are not available. All Bidders submitting a sealed Bid shall obtain the Bidding Documents from QuestCDN.com. Bids are to be submitted in accordance with Article 12 of the “Instructions to Bidders.” The two envelope system will be used for Bid opening procedures. Bidders who submit a Bid must be a Plan Holder of record at the Issuing Office. Bids from Bidders who are not on the Plan Holders List may be returned as not being responsive. The Bid must be accompanied by Bid security made payable to OWNER in an amount of 5% of the Bidder’s maximum Bid price. OWNER reserves the right to reject any or all Bids, to waive any technicality, and to accept any Bid which it deems advantageous. All Bids shall remain subject to acceptance for 110 days after the time set for receiving Bids. Contract award shall be made based on the lowest qualified, responsive, and responsible Bidder. All Bidders are required to have a West Virginia Contractor’s license in conformance with West Virginia Code Section 30 42 12. Any Contractor submitting a Bid on this Project hereby certifies, indicates, and acknowledges that it has a Contractor’s license from the State of West Virginia and meets all the qualifications required by the statutes of the state and subdivision in which the Work is to be performed. Any contract or contracts awarded under this invitation for Bids are expected to be funded in part by grants and loans from the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection State Revolving Fund and local borrowing. Neither the United States, the State of West Virginia nor any of their departments, agencies or employees are or will be a party to this invitation to Bid or any resulting Contract. SUSPENSION AND DEBARMENT Recipient shall not entertain the use of businesses that are listed on the “System for Award Management (SAM)” at www.sam.gov in accordance with 2 CFR Part 1532 and Subpart B and C of 2 CFR Part 180. WEST VIRGINIA ALCOHOL AND DRUG FREE WORKPLACE ACT West Virginia Code 21 1D 5 provides that any solicitation for a public improvement construction contract requires each vendor that submits a Bid for the Work to submit at the same time an affidavit of compliance with the Bid. The enclosed drug free workplace affidavit must be signed and submitted in the first envelope as evidence of the vendor’s compliance with the provisions of Article 1D, Chapter 21 of the West Virginia Code. Failure to submit the signed drug free workplace affidavit in the first envelope shall result in disqualification of such Bid. AMERICAN IRON AND STEEL REQUIREMENT P.L. 113 76, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014, includes an “American Iron and Steel (AIS)” requirement in section 436 that requires Clean Water State Revolving Loan Fund (CWSRF) and Drinking Water State Revolving Loan Fund (DWSRF) assistance recipients to use iron and steel products that are produced in the United States for projects for the construction, alteration, maintenance, or repair of a public water system or treatment works. CONTRACTOR’S SALES TAX EXEMPTION OWNER is exempt from West Virginia Sales Taxes and, by West Virginia Code 11 15 8d, can now extend this tax exemption to Contractors supplying goods on their behalf. Contractor shall coordinate with OWNER the filing of any and all applications to the State of West Virginia, exempting the purchase of the specified Goods from West Virginia Sales Tax and hereby agrees to include the savings from such sales tax exemption in its total Base Bid. DBE REQUIREMENTS Each Bidder must fully comply with the Disadvantaged Business Enterprises, and Affirmative Action Requirements, as identified in the contract documents. Bidder agrees to make “positive efforts” to subcontract a portion of the total value of the Contract to Disadvantaged Business Enterprises. This shall be done in compliance with the six (6) affirmative steps as outlined in 40 CFR 33.240. Failure to demonstrate positive efforts to do so may lead to rejection of Bids. For this program, the term “subcontract” includes all construction, modification, and service work contracted for by the Bidder in the execution of the Work under this Contract. Contractor shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin or sex in the performance of this Contract. Contractor shall carry out applicable requirements of 40 CFR Part 33 in the award and administration of contracts awarded under EPA financial assistance agreements. Failure by Contractor to carry out these requirements is a material breach of this Contract which may result in the termination of this Contract or other legally available remedies. NOTICE OF FEDERAL WAGE REQUIREMENTS Contractors are required to comply with all laws pertaining to federal wage rates as issued in accordance with the Davis Bacon Act. Contractor will be required to pay the federal wage rates appropriate for each worker classification. NONDISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT Bidders on this Work will be required to comply with the President’s Executive Order No. 11246. The requirements for Bidders and Contractors under this order are explained in the Specifications. COMPLETION DATES AND MILESTONES Refer to Section 00 52 00 – Agreement, Article 4 Contract Times for Dates for Substantial and Final Completion, Dates for Milestones, and information related to Liquidated Damages. MANDATORY PRE BID CONFERENCE A mandatory pre bid conference will be held at 10 a.m., Eastern Standard Time, on April 10, 2025, at the Westmoreland Woman’s Club, 2962 Bradley Rd, Huntington, WV 25704-2700. Bidders are required to attend and participate in the conference. Bids submitted by Bidders who do not attend the pre bid conference will be considered unresponsive and will not be opened. ENGINEER and OWNER will facilitate tour after pre bid meeting. Refer to Section 00 21 13 – Instructions to Bidders, 5.04, for additional site visit information. PROJECT CONTACT The Strand Associates, Inc. project manager is Samuel K. Hocevar, P.E., and can be contacted at Strand Associates, Inc. , 910 West Wingra Drive, Madison, WI 53715, (608) 251 4843 or [email protected], regarding the Project. For further requirements regarding Bid submittal, qualifications, procedures, and Contract Award, refer to the Instructions to Bidders that are included in the Bidding Documents. Published by the authority of the Huntington Sanitary Board Brian J. Bracey, Executive Director Dated at Huntington Sanitary Board, West Virginia March 5, 2025 and March 12, 2025 LH-221512 03-05,12;2025