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REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS

CSO 541 and Rapid Run/Foley Road Bundle

RFQ # 2022-005

Digital Statements of Qualifications (SOQs) will be received for the Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati (“MSDGC”) by the City of Cincinnati (the “City”), as sole management agency for the operation and maintenance of MSDGC at the following website:

https://cincinnati-oh.bonfirehub.com/

All proposals must be submitted electronically only via the City’s Bonfire portal at the above link. Responses submitted by hard copy, mail, or e-mail will not be accepted. See “RFQ Submissions” at Section 1.10 of the RFQ for details.  

UNTIL 1:30 PM on Thursday,

July 7, 2022    

As of 6/6/2022, interested parties may download RFQ Documents from the Cincinnati Bonfire website and should frequently return to the site to monitor for project-specific updates and addenda. 

Questions on this project or any part of the RFQ Documents must be sent via e-mail to [email protected] by the established deadline. The deadline for questions is 1:30 PM local time on Monday, June 27, 2022.         

A brief description of the services sought:

CSO 541 Outfall Replacement - This project will replace the outfall pipe and install a new headwall on the riverbank. The outfall pipe is approximately 150 feet of 36-inch sewer that runs from MH 15701004 to MH 15701030 and crosses under two sets of railroad tracks with a manhole in between (MH 15701002). This project is located near 5718 River Road in the Riverside neighborhood of the City of Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio in the River Road watershed of the Muddy Creek treatment basin.

Rapid Run and Foley Road PS Receiver Manhole Installation - The project will install new receiver manholes with grit pits immediately upstream of the Rapid Run and Foley Road Pump Stations on the existing sewer. Receiver manholes are used for bypass pumping around the pump station during maintenance activities, and neither of the pump stations have one currently. The new manholes would increase maintainability and reduce pollutant discharge. The project is located in the River Road watershed of the Muddy Creek basin, in the Riverside neighborhood of the City of Cincinnati, Hamilton County.

Cincinnati, Ohio. June 13, 2022.

INVITATION TO BID

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GLENWOOD GARDENS MUSIC GARDEN

Sealed bids, in duplicate, will be received by the Board of Park Commissioners of Great Parks of Hamilton County at the Winton Centre, 10245 Winton Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45231 for the Glenwood Gardens Music Garden, located at 10397 Springfield Pike Cincinnati, Ohio 45215, as set forth in the Drawings and Specifications.

This project is to be awarded following Great Parks Board Meeting on July 21, 2022. The following items are to be installed by the contractor by December 2, 2022: concrete walk with stamped and stained decorative concrete border, granite paver accents, limestone dust and chip paving, a concrete retaining wall, a premanufactured stage, outdoor instruments, freestanding steel benches, stone bolder benches, grading and drainage improvements.

The contractor will also be required to install plantings and landscape beds between the dates of April 10, 2023 and June 2, 2023.

Each bid must be submitted in a sealed envelope and clearly designated on the outside of envelope with the project name. Bids shall be publicly opened and read aloud at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, July 1, 2022 at Winton Centre.

A Pre-Bid Meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 21, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. at Glenwood Gardens Highfield Discovery Garden. We will meet at the entrance to the Cotswold Visitor Centre in Glenwood Gardens.

Bidding Documents may be viewed at McGraw-Hill Construction Dodge, ACI plan rooms and The Blue Book Building & Construction Network. The legal advertisement may be viewed at www.greatparks.org.

This project is funded in part by an Ohio Department of Natural Resources NatureWorks grant. The contractor must possess a valid Certificate of Compliance (COC) from the Ohio Department of Administrative Services, Equal Opportunity Division prior to project award. Information on obtaining the COC is available at

https://development.ohio.gov/business/construction-compliance/affirmative-action-program  

Additional contractor responsibilities for meeting the requirements of this grant are described in the Appendices in the back of this Project Manual.

Bidding documents shall be obtained from ARC Document Solutions, 4219 Malsbary Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45242, 513-326-2300, at contractor’s expense (no refunds).

Contracts for work under this bid will obligate all Contractors to comply with prevailing wage rates established by the Ohio Department of Commerce, Division of Industrial Compliance, Bureau of Wage and Hour Administration.

Proposals shall be accompanied by a Bid Guaranty and Performance Bond meeting the requirements of Sec. 153.54 & 153.571 O.R.C. executed by a surety company authorized to do business in the State of Ohio in the full amount of the proposal, including add alternates. In lieu of a bid bond, a certified check may be substituted, payable to the Owner in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the proposal amount, including add alternates. No proposal may be withdrawn for a period of sixty days after the bid opening date.

Great Parks of Hamilton County reserves the right to reject any and all bids.

Cincinnati, Ohio. June 13, 2022.