Request for Proposal

DPW- Girard Ave. Bridge Replacement Project

City of Claremont, New Hampshire

INVITATION TO BID

The City of Claremont invites you to submit a bid for the Girard Avenue Bridge Replacement Project. The project tasks are generally as follows:

1. Install silt fence or silt sock perimeter control down-gradient of proposed construction disturbance.

2. Install temporary storm water controls: diversion berms, depressed plunge pools, etc. as required.

3. Grub shoulder vegetation to minimum limits possible to complete construction activities.

4. Remove existing guardrail, sawcut pavement and remove to limits required (reclaiming optional).

5. Excavate existing gravel to proper elevation (to align top of slab with proposed grade).

6. Install formwork, reinforcement, pour one-way concrete slab and, when cured, remove forms.

7. Reconstruct gravel approaches, compact and fine grade approaches to proposed grades and pave 2 ½” base with 1 ½” wearing course.

8. Install roadway guardrail with triple-nesting over existing culvert area.

9. Install shoulder gravel, and areas of disturbance not permanently stabilized with concrete, pavement or gravel shall be topsoiled with loam, seed and mulch.

10. When permanent erosion control measures are installed or established and the site is fully stabilized, temporary erosion control measures shall be removed along with all sediment that has been trapped by these devices.

The proposal must be submitted on the bid forms provided. Submit bids in a sealed envelope clearly marked: “BID FOR CITY OF CLAREMONT – GIRARD AVENUE BRIDGE REPLACEMENT PROJECT”

Submit bids no later than 10:00am, May 3rd, 2023 to:

City Manager’s Office

City Hall

56 Opera House Square

Claremont, New Hampshire 03743

Bids will be reviewed by the Department of Public Works and the Contractor selected on or before May 10th, 2023.

There is no pre-bid meeting, though contractors will be required to sign off that they have visited the site prior to submitting a bid. All bids must be based on the project bidding documents. This is a lump sum project and contractor must include subsidiary items in total bid price.

Start date no sooner that August 28, 2023 due to waterline replacement projects in the area. A substantial completion is required by October13, 2023.

Should a bidder find discrepancies in,