Lower Boones Ferry Road Rail Crossing (Chow Corner) - WO 049

Sealed proposals for Lower Boones Ferry Road Rail Crossing - WO 049 for the City of Lake Oswego will be received by Matthew Tipton, PE Associate Engineer, at the third floor reception desk in Lake Oswego City Hall, 380 A Avenue, Lake Oswego, OR, 97034 until 2:00 PM, local time, on the 6th of June 2013, and then will be publicly opened and read.

SCOPE OF WORK:

The Work consists of the reconstruction of a vehicular railroad crossing located on Lower Boones Ferry Road in Lake Oswego, Oregon, approximately one half mile east of Interstate 5.  The existing roadway will be milled and planed and overlayed with HMA or WMA to improve roadway drainage and match rail reconstructed grade.  Stormwater sewer improvements, sidewalk construction for pedestrian connectivity, surface grading, and associated improvements are included in the reconstruction project. Portland & Western Railroad (P&W RR) will perform the panel replacement between the rails as well as the underdrain system directly adjacent to the rails during the full road closure of Boones Ferry Road August 15 -20, 2013.  Coordination with P&W RR before and after the rail work will be the responsibility of the CONTRACTOR.

No proposal will be considered by the Owner unless the proposal contains, or is accompanied by, a statement by the bidder as part of the proposal that the provision required by ORS 279C.840 pertaining to prevailing wages shall be included in the contract.  The contract documents may be reviewed, examined, and copies obtained at the City Engineering Dept., 3rd Floor, Lake Oswego City Hall, 380 A Avenue, Lake Oswego, Oregon between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, except legal holidays.  Copies may be obtained upon payment of a non-refundable fee of $25.00.  Copies of the contract documents may also be obtained by mail upon request (phone: 503.635.0270; fax: 503.635.0269) and upon the receipt of an additional $5.00 per contract document to cover postage and handling.  Requests sent through the mail shall be addressed to the Engineering Department, City of Lake Oswego, P. O. Box 369, Lake Oswego, Oregon 97034. 

The City has a new Bid/RFP website http://www.ci.oswego.or.us/publicworks/bid-rfp-information .  You must create an account within the site to download Plan hold Lists, Addenda and get Bid Results. 

Contractors must be prequalified by the Department of Transportation in order to enter into a contract with the Owner prior to the opening of bids.  Prequalification application forms may be obtained from the Construction Contracts Office, Oregon Department of Transportation, 307 Transportation Building, 355 Capitol Street NE, Room 212, Salem, OR 97301, 503.986.6918, or on-line at http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/CS/CONSTRUCTION/  and must be submitted to the City no later than date and time set forth above for submission of the bid.

The Owner will investigate and determine the qualifications of the apparent low bidder as part of its evaluation of the lowest responsive bid.

Bidders are encouraged to visit the site of the Work during bid preparation.  Clarifications to the Bidding Documents will be made by addenda only.  Oral statements may not be relied upon and will not be binding or legally effective.

A mandatory pre-bid meeting will be held at 10 am, June 4, 2013, at the project site on Boones Ferry Road.  Any bid submitted by a CONTRACTOR not in attendance will not be considered.

Published in the Daily Journal of Commerce on the 22nd  and 24th  of May 2013.