This work is estimated to cost from $1,500,000 to $1,750,000. Payment for the work will be made in four year special tax bills, bearing 7 per cent interest, payable one-fourth each year. Time 600 working days, barring strikes, bad weather, etc.
Bidders are required to deposit $15,000 in cash or a certified check with bid, to insure signing of contract when let. Same to be returned on execution of the contract or rejection of bid.
Complete plans and specifications for the work may be had and all information obtained by seeing or writing to A. D. Ludlow, Engineer of Sewers, City Hall, Kansas City, Missouri. Twenty-five ($25.00) Dollars will be required to be deposited for a set of the plans, but $20.00 thereof will be refunded upon return of the plans in good condition.
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS,
Kansas City, Missouri,
by F. E. McCabe, Secretary.
There are usually legal restrictions which require that the advertisement be inserted a certain number of times in specified newspapers or other advertising mediums before the opening of bids. If the contract is of sufficient size to attract outside contractors, the advertisement should be inserted in engineering and contracting journals of wide circulation. Although the advertisement appears separately from the other portions of the contract, a copy is usually bound in as the first page of the pamphlet containing the contract and specifications and is made an integral part thereof.
111. Information and Instructions for Bidders.—This is somewhat on the order of an introduction to the pamphlet in which the specifications, contract, and contract drawings are published. As examples of the type of information and instructions given to prospective bidders the abstracts below have been taken from the “Contract, Specifications, Bond, and Proposal for the North Shore Sanitary Intercepting Sewer” by the Sanitary District of Chicago. The information and instructions to bidders can be divided into the following sections: 1st. Examination of Site, 2nd. Character and Quantity of Work, 3rd. Qualification for Bidding, 4th. Instructions for Making out Proposal, 5th. Certified Check, and 6th. Rejection of Bids.
Requirements for Bidding and Instructions To Bidders
Bidders are required to submit their bids upon the following express conditions: