ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

The City of Sanford is soliciting Bids for the construction of the following Project:

E Weatherspoon Floodplain Culvert. 

Sealed Bids must be delivered to the City of Sanford, West End Conference Room, 225 E Weatherspoon Street, Sanford, NC 27330, no later than 2:00 PM, August 20, 2025.  The Bids will be publicly opened and read aloud at this time and place.  A virtual bid opening will also be offered. To participate in the virtual bid opening you must email Jonathan Theodore at [email protected] and Lydia Ward at [email protected] no later than 10:00 AM local time on August 20, 2025. Bids received after this time will be returned unopened.  Address Bids to the Owner at address listed below:

Owner:
City of Sanford, North Carolina,
225 E Weatherspoon Street,
Sanford, NC 27330.

Contact:
Paul Weeks, PE,
919-777-1119,
[email protected]

Engineer:
Freese and Nichols, Inc.,
531 N. Liberty Street,
Winston-Salem, NC 27101

Contact:
Lydia Ward, PE,
919-582-5851,
[email protected]

The Owner reserves the right to waive any informality or to reject any or all Bids. Unless all Bids are rejected, Award will be made to the lowest responsible Bidder, taking into consideration quality, performance and the time specified in the proposals for the performance of the Contract.

This Project is generally described as follows:

• Construction of the E Weatherspoon Floodplain Culvert including all materials, equipment, installation, testing, labor, and incidental for all work for a complete working system as required by the Plans and Specifications.

Bidding Documents may be examined at Engineer’s office in Raleigh, the Owner’s office in Sanford and at the following plan rooms:

• Accent Imaging at accentimaging.com

The drawings and specifications will be available on Tuesday, August 12, 2025 and may be reviewed online and copies may be obtained from Accent Imaging at 8121 Brownleigh Drive, Raleigh, NC 27617, 919-782-3332, www.accentimaging.com .

Bidders must obtain documents through Accent Imaging to be included on the Bidders List.  Bids will only be accepted from companies listed on the bidders list.  The Accent Imaging website, planscope.com, will be updated periodically with Addenda, plan holder’s lists and other information relevant to bidding the Project.

With request for the Bidding Documents supply the following information: Company name, contact person, street address, and phone and fax numbers for Bidding office; NC contractor’s license with limitation and classification; indicate if the firm will be a Bidder, Supplier or Sub-Contractor.

Each bid must be accompanied by a bid security of 5% of the bid amount. Security may be in the form of cash, certified check or cashier’s check made payable to the City of Sanford or a bid bond issued by an insurance company authorized to do business in North Carolina. The deposit shall be retained if the successful bidder fails to execute the contract within ten (10) days after the award of contract or fails to give satisfactory surety as required herein.

Failure to comply with these requirements may be grounds for rejection of bid.

The City reserves the right to reject any or all bids or to accept the bid that appears to be in the best interest of the City or provided by law. No bid may be withdrawn for a period of one hundred and twenty (120) days after the scheduled bid opening.

Please note the following:
This project is being funded in whole or in part by federal grants. All recipients of federally funded grants or federal assistance to support procurements must comply with the applicable provision of the Federal procurement standards 2 C.F.R. part 200. As result, firms awarded federally funded contracts by City of Sanford must comply with the contract provisions set forth in Appendix A of the specifications, unless a particular award term or condition specifically indicates otherwise. The federal requirements can also be accessed at the following link: https://files2.freese.com/message/QTZf2i1qvQqYD4zznMYu6k. These terms and conditions are hereby incorporated into any resulting contract.

Esta informaciòn està disponible en español o en cualquier otro idioma bajo peticiòn. Por favor, pòngase en contacto con Ms. Karen Kennedy al 919-718-4657 x 5391 o en 115 Chatham Street Sanford, NC para esta solicitud.