Mobile Bay Shore Habitat Acquisition and Restoration - Three Mile Creek Dredging

Contractor shall complete all Work as specified or indicated in the Contract Documents. The Work is generally described as follows: Removal and disposal of approximately 21,202 CY of sediment from the historic Three Mile Creek alignment to restore hydraulic flow. Creation of a creek geometry as designed and annotated in the design drawings. The cost of and return of additional sets of specifications shall be in accordance with Act 97-225, Public Works Contracts. No Bid Packages will be issued to Contractors later than twenty-four (24) hours after the Pre-Bid Conference. No questions, whether orally or written, will be addressed after 12:00 p.m. on, December 2nd, 2022. Any contractor not represented at the Pre-Bid Conference will be disqualified from bidding on the project. A single individual cannot represent more than one contracting company. No bid will be received and considered unless made out on the blank form or Proposal attached, and unless all papers attached hereto are returned with the bid and the Proposal sheet attached. Each bid shall be accompanied by a check or bid bond for the sum of five percent (5%) of the amount bid (maximum amount of bond $10,000), made payable to the City of Mobile, and certified by a reputable banking institution. These monies shall serve as assurance that within ten (10) days of notice of contract award contemplated in the Proposal, the successful bidder will enter into such contract and file a bond for the execution of same. The performance bond required will be for the amount bid, and labor and material bond shall be one hundred percent (100%) of the amount of contract, and shall be made by a Surety Company acceptable to the City of Mobile and upon the forms of bonds appended hereto. In default of the entering into of such contract and the execution of such bond, the certified check required to accompany such bid shall be forfeited to the City of Mobile, Alabama. These fees shall not be a penalty but damages for delays, or for the additional cost or expenses that the City of Mobile may incur by reason of such default. In addition, the Contractor must furnish to the City of Mobile at the time of the signing of the Contract a certificate of insurance coverage as provided in the specification which will include comprehensive insurance, Contractor's Automobile Liability Insurance, Owner's Protective Liability Insurance, or a Comprehensive General and Public Liability policy naming the City of Mobile, its agents and employees as additionally insured, and where applicable, subcontractor's Public Liability and Property Damage Insurance. The right is reserved to reject any and/or all bids and to waive informalities and to furnish any item of material or work to change the amount of said Contract. A time charge equal to Two Hundred Fifty dollars ($250.00) per calendar day will be made against the Contractor for the entire period that any part of the work remains incomplete or any closeout requirements are not acceptably submitted for more than thirty (30) calendar days after the time specified for the Substantial Completion of the Work. The amount of which shall be deducted by the Owner, and shall be retained by the Owner, out of monies otherwise due to the Contractor in the final payment, not as a penalty, but as liquidated damages sustained. Bidders must be licensed Contractors in the State of Alabama pursuant to Sections 34-8-1 through 34-8-27 of the Code of Alabama of 1975 as amended. Bidders' license must include the Specialty Construction (H/RR-S)Dredging, as listed in the State of Alabama Licensing Board for General Contractors Administrative Code Chapter 230-X-1-.27 6.a.8. Bidders shall indicate State License Number on outside of bid envelope. The awarding of a contract will require the Contractor to pay the prevailing wage rates for this district that are applicable to the trades engaged in this project. The City of Mobile reserves the right to reject any and all bids and waive informalities in the bidding. Bids must be sealed and have the project name and number marked on the outside of the envelope.

Division 31 -	Earthwork, Erosion and Sedimentation Controls.
Division 33 -	Utilities, Storm Drainage Utilities, Ponds and Reservoirs.
Division 35 -	Waterway and Marine Construction, Shoreline Protection, Waterway Construction and Equipment.