The City of Marion, Kansas will receive sealed bids for the construction of Water System Improvements 2020 at the City Hall, 208 E. Santa Fe St., Marion, KS 66861, until Thursday, November 19, 2020 at 11:00am.

Bids received after this time will not be accepted. Bids will be publicly opened and read aloud immediately after the specified closing time.

Major items of work include: Work consists of 10,100 L.F. of 1” & 2” PE Service line and 20,400 L.F. of 4” through 8” PVC distribution waterline to be bored and/or open cut to replace existing waterlines for the City of Marion, including 125 gate valves, 263 service connections, fire hydrant replacements, abandonments, paving, seeding, erosion and traffic control, and appurtenances.

The Issuing Office for the Bidding Documents is: EBH & Associates, P.A., 500 E. Main St., Marion, KS 66861; Tel: (785) 821-1040; E-Mail: DarinN@EBHengineering.com. The plans are available for download on the EBH Plan Room at https://ebhengineering.com/plan-room/.

 Bidding Documents may be examined at City Hall in Marion, Kansas, at the Engineer’s office Monday through Friday between the hours of 9:00 to 12:00 a.m. and 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., and at:

Construct Connect, 3825 Edwards Rd., Suite 800, Cincinnati, OH 45209

Dodge Data & Analytics- 4300 Beltway Place, Suite 180, Arlington, TX 76018-5253

KCNR LLC, 230 Laura-Suite 101, Wichita, KS 67211

 Bidding Documents: Electronic copies of the bidding documents may be obtained through the Engineer’s website: www.ebhengineering.com/plan-room, by entering your information in the required fields. Addenda, if any and Plan Holders list will also be available through the EBH website Plan Room. The date that the Bidding Documents are downloaded by the contractor will be considered the prospective Bidder’s date of receipt of the Bidding Documents. Partial sets of Bidding Documents will not be available from the Issuing Office. Neither Owner nor Engineer will be responsible for full or partial sets of Bidding Documents, including Addenda if any, obtained from sources other than the Issuing Office.

Project Funding– This project is funded by the Kansas Public Water Supply Revolving Loan Fund provided by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) and the Kansas Department of Commerce (KDOC) Small Cities Program.

Equal Employment Opportunity – Bidders on this work will be required to comply with the presidents Executive Order 11246 (Equal Employment Opportunity) as amended. Requirements for bidders and contractors under this order are explained in the specifications.

Anti-Discrimination – “Bidders on this work, including sub-contractors or vendors, will be required to comply with the Kansas Act Against Discrimination (K.S.A. 44-1001 et. seq.) and the Kansas Age Discrimination in Employment Act (K.S.A. 44-1111 et. seq.)”.

Responsibilities of Participants Regarding Transactions – “Bidders must fully comply with Subpart C of 2 CFR Part 180 and 2 CFR Part 1532, entitled Responsibilities of Participants Regarding Transactions. Contractors, subcontractors, or suppliers that appear on the Excluded Parties List System at www.sam.gov are not eligible for award of any contracts funded by the KDHE State Revolving Fund programs.”

Anti-Lobbying – All contracts and subcontracts exceeding $100,000 at any tier under a KPWSLF Loan Agreement shall comply with the Anti-Lobbying Act, Section 319 of Public Law 101-121, and file an Anti-Lobbying Certification form, and the Disclosure of Lobbying Activities form, if required, to the next tier above.

Davis Bacon Wage Determination – Conditions of employment to be observed and minimum wage rates to be paid under the contract (Davis Bacon Act), Section 3 of 1968 Housing & Urban Development Act.

American Iron and Steel – All of the iron and steel products used in the project must be produced in the United States. The term ‘‘iron and steel products’’ means the following products made primarily of iron or steel – lined or unlined pipes and fittings, manhole covers and other municipal castings, hydrants, tanks, flanges, pipe clamps and restraints, valves, structural steel, reinforced precast concrete, and construction materials. A Certification form must be submitted with the bid documents.

 Bid security in the amount of 5 percent of the bid shall accompany each bid in accordance with Instructions to Bidders.

 Attention of bidders is particularly called to the requirements as to conditions of employment to be observed and Federal prevailing wage rates to be paid under the contract, Section 3 of the 1968 Housing Act, Segregated Facility, Section 109 of the 1984 Housing and Community Development Act and Executive Order 11246, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

 Owner reserves the right to waive irregularities and to reject bids.