NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

State Route 104 (Jackson Pike) 12” Waterline Extension & Shared-use Path Improvements

The City of Grove City, through the City Administrator, will receive sealed bids for the State Route 104 (Jackson Pike) 12” Waterline Extension and Shared-use Path Improvements project via Bid Express, until 11:00 a.m. local time on Friday, Nov. 5, 2021 and at that time and place will be publicly opened and read aloud. Grove City will neither open nor accept bids received after that time. Subject to the right of Grove City to reject any or all bids, Grove City will award contracts to the bidder(s) submitting the lowest and best bid(s). The work for which Grove City is inviting bids consists of the following:

Base Bid

  • The project consists of the installation of approximately 2,100 feet of 12-inch water main and associated appurtenances. Installation of the water main will require completion of a jack and bore of approximately 160 feet of 24-inch steel casing pipe. In addition, the project includes construction of approximately 1,500 feet of an asphalt shared-use path requiring substantial grading and embankment. A 95-foot-long span prefabricated bridge structure is required to facilitate the connectivity of the shared-use path.

The estimated costs of construction for the work outlined in the plans and specifications for the various bids are:

Base Bid: $1,175,000.00

In order to be considered, Contractors must submit bids on the Base Bid. Hard copies of the Contract Documents and Specifications will not be provided. Contract Documents and Specifications may be obtained from Bid Express only and at costs associated with the Bid Express service fee schedule. Payment for these items will not be refunded.

Each bid shall contain the full name and address of each person or company interested in the same and shall be accompanied by a bond meeting the requirements of the Contract Documents and written on the form included with the Contract Documents.

Each Bidder must ensure that no employees and applicants for employment are discriminated against because of race, color, religion, sex, Vietnam Era nor disabled veterans, or National origin.

Schedule: The work shall commence within sixty (60) calendar days after the City issues the Notice to Proceed for the Contract. The work shall be completed within two hundred ten (210) calendar days from the City’s issuance of the Notice to Proceed for the Contract

The Bidder is required to state in full detail, with their Bid, their experience in this class of work; bids from contractors inexperienced in this particular class of work may not be considered.

This project requires payment of prevailing wages to all workers during the course of construction activities. Bidders must comply with the prevailing wage rates on public improvements in Franklin County and the City of Grove City, Ohio as determined by the Ohio Bureau of Labor & Worker Safety, Wage and Hour Division, 614-644-2239. State of Ohio prevailing wage rates are included in the Contract Documents and prospective bidders shall take them into account in preparing bids.

The City of Grove City, Ohio, reserves the right to reject any and all bids, to waive technical defects as the interest of the City may require; and, to conduct such investigation as necessary to determine the lowest and best bidder for the Contract.

By Order of the Council of the City of Grove City, Ohio
Charles W. Boso, Jr., City Administrator
October 20, 2021

General Conditions of Contracts for Construction

For additional construction information, download the Grove City Service Department General Conditions of Contracts for Construction.

Grove City Bid Express

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Bid Openings

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