Lead Hazard Reduction and Healthy Homes Intervention

The Work of Lead Hazard Reduction and Healthy Homes Intervention. Each Bid shall be submitted in accordance with the Instructions to Bidders. All bids in excess of $50,000.00 be accompanied by a Bid Security in the amount of ten (10) percent of the Total Bid Price. The Bidder to whom a contract is offered, must furnish to the City, if that contract has a total cost greater than $50,000, a 100 percent Performance Bond with a surety company acceptable to the City and in a form acceptable to the City. In the City's sole discretion, it may also require a 100 percent Payment Bond and/or other additional security with a surety acceptable to the City and in a form acceptable to the City. Complete instructions for filing Bids are included in the Instructions to Bidders. Contractors must be familiar with and have knowledge of Federal and State Statutes, laws and regulations governing the services outlined in the attached specifications including, but not limited to HUDs Lead Safe Housing Rule 24 CFR Part 35, Subpart R:Methods and Standards for Lead-Based Paint Hazard Evaluation and Hazard Reduction Activities: HUDs Guidelines for the Evaluation & Control of Lead-Based Paint Hazards in Housing; the EPA's rule on Lead- Based Paint Poisoning Prevention in Certain Residential Structures 40 CFR Part 745 subparts D, E and L, 2CFR Part 200: Uniform Administrative Requirements for Federal Awards, Final Guidance and the State of Connecticut -Department of Public Health Lead Poisoning Prevention and Control Regulations: 19-111-1 through 19-111-11. Due to the Federal Funding stated above, the two percent (2%) contractor preference granted to Waterbury Bidders required by section 38.42 of the Waterbury Procurement Ordinance does not apply to this request for proposal. The successful bidder must not be delinquent in any obligation to the City of Waterbury, including but not limited to, taxes, water and sewer charges, parking violations, etc. The City of Waterbury is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer and does not discriminate in its hiring, employment, or business practices. The City is committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) and does not discriminate on the basis of disability, in admission to, access to, or operation of its programs, services, or activities. All questions about the meaning or intent of the Bid Documents must be submitted to the City Procure Ware website by |2:00 PM October 10, 2022. All questions about the meaning or intent of the Bid Documents must be submitted to the City website. The City will issue written clarifications or interpretations by Addenda online at the City of Waterbury website not later than October 12, 2022 be binding. Oral and other clarifications or interpretations will not be binding and will be without legal effect. Bids may be modified only by an appropriate document duly executed in the same manner that a Bid must be executed and delivered to the place where Bids are to be submitted prior to that time scheduled by the City for the opening of Bids. A Bid may be withdrawn by the Bidder prior to the scheduled time (or authorized postponement thereof by the City) for the opening of Bids. Any Bid received after the time and date specified as the time for the Citys opening of Bids shall not be considered. Once bids are opened by the City, no Bidder may withdraw its Bid for a period of ninety (90). days (as needed}. excluding Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays, after the actual date of the City's opening of the Bids. General Liability Insurance: $1,000,000.00 per occurrence, $2,000,000.00 aggregate and $2,000,000.00 Products and completed operations aggregate : Providing coverage to protect the City for all damages arising out of bodily injuries, sickness to or death of all persons in any one accident or occurrence and for all damages arising out of destruction of property in any one accident or occurrence. Automobile Liability Insurance: $1,000,000.00 combined single limit (CSL) Providing coverage to protect the City with respect to claims for damage for bodily injury and or property damage arising out of ownership, maintenance, operation, use or loading and unloading of any auto including hired & non-owned autos. Workers Compensation: Statutory Limits within the State of Connecticut: Employers Liability: a EL Each Accident $1,000,000.00 OO EL Disease Each Employee $1,000,000.00 EL Disease Policy Limit $1,000,000.00 Contractor shall comply with all State of Connecticut statutes as it relates to workers' compensation. Excess/Umbrella Liability Insurance: Excess or Umbrella insurance coverage that follows form or sits over General Liability, Automobile Liability and Workers Compensation insurances. $1,000,000.00 each occurrence and $1,000,000.00 Aggregate. Builders Risk Insurance: coverage equaling $ , the monetary value of the construction component of the Project. All Risk Builders Risk insurance (also know as course of construction) coverage with limits equal to or better than the maximum possible loss of all materials of construction used or contemplated under this Contract, including all materials in transit and all materials in storage wherever stored and the value of any and ali subsequent Contract changes. Contractors Pollution Liability Insurance: $1,000,000.00 each claim, $2,000,000.00 aggregate coverage. The City of Waterbury shall receive written notice of cancellation from the Contractor at least thirty (30) calendar days prior to the date of actual cancellation, regardless of the reason for such cancellation. Mailed to the City's Using Agency and a copy to the City's Office of Corporation Counsel, 235 Grand Street, Waterbury, CT 06702. BIDDER agrees and covenants that the Contract Time shall commence upon delivery of the CITYs written notice to proceed, which shall occur after contract execution by both parties. BIDDER agrees and covenants that the purchase order tire shall commence upon issuance and terminate on January 30, 2023 unless the purchase order provides otherwise. The City reserves the right to disregard all nonconforming, non responsive, _ conditional Bids, and Bids taking exception(s) to the Bid Documents. A Bid which includes, for any item(s), a Bid Price that is abnormally low or high may be rejected in its entirety. CITY reserves the right to reject the Bid of any Bidder that CITY considers not to possess the qualities set forth in Article 1 herein. State law requires a minimum of twenty: five_(25%) percent of the state-funded portion of the contract for award to subcontractors holding current certification from the Connecticut Department of administrative Services ("DAS") under the provisions of CONN. GEN. STAT. 4a-60g, as amended. (25% of the work with DAS certified Small and Minority owned businesses and 25% of that work with DAS certified Minority, Women, and/or Disabled owned businesses.) The contractor must demonstrate good faith effort to meet the 25% set-aside goals.

Division 01 -	General Requirements, Special Procedures, Environmental Procedures.
Division 02 -	Existing Conditions, Environmental Assessment, Hazardous Material Assessment, Site Remediation, Asbestos Remediation.