THE MALDEN ADVOCATE–Friday, March 7, 2025 ~ Legal Notice ~ Page 17 MALDEN RIVER WORKS MALDEN, MASSACHUSETTS INVITATION TO BID THE CITY OF MALDEN invites sealed bids for its Malden River Works project located at the Malden Department of Public Works (DPW), 356 Commercial Street, Malden, MA. In general, the project will make improvements to the existing DPW yard and construct a new riverfront public park along the Malden River. The improvements will include, but are not limited to a secondary driveway, new visitor and employee parking areas, green stormwater infrastructure, drainage infrastructure, landscaping, and tree-lined paved pathways with lighting to connect visitors to the new riverfront park. The new park area will incorporate a plaza area, an open lawn area, and furnishings such as bike racks, picnic tables, benches, and lighting. A segment of the Malden River Greenway multi-use path will run north-south through the park and an accessible pathway along a restored vegetated riverbank to a new floating dock. The DPW yard makes up the middle portion of the site and will be upgraded with stormwater drainage infrastructure and will be reorganized to formalize the storage of materials. Additional improvements include formalized parking areas for employees and DPW equipment, fences and gates, and lighting. The site is a Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) listed disposal site. The project includes the handling and management of soil during renovation activities and the reuse and/or disposal of those soils in accordance with the Massachusetts Contingency Plan and the provisions of the project’s Soils Management Protocols (SMP) document. Bids will be received at the Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development (OSPCD), Malden City Hall, 215 Pleasant Street, 3rd Floor, Malden, MA 02148, until 2:00 pm local time on Wednesday, April 2, 2025, and at that place and time will be publicly opened and read aloud. Bids shall be delivered to OSPCD before this date and time. Bids may be delivered Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday between 9:00 am and 4:00 pm, and Tuesday between 9:00 am and 6:00 pm. The office is closed on Fridays. Bids shall not be deposited in the City of Malden Drop Box located outside of the main entrance to Malden City Hall. The bidder is solely responsible for the delivery of bids by the prescribed date and time and assumes the risk of any delay due to mail or other delivery method. Contract Documents may be obtained electronically only from Hayner/Swanson, Inc. | now IMEG beginning Friday, March 7, 2025, at 10:00 am. Requests for electronic files shall be made by email only to Stephen O’Neill, Hayner/Swanson, Inc. | now IMEG, at Stephen.J.ONeill@imegcorp.com. A mandatory pre-bid conference will be held on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at 2:00 pm in Conference Room No. 105 at Malden City Hall. A mandatory site visit will be held immediately following the pre-bid conference for all prospective bidders. This will be the only time for bidders to visit the site to acquaint themselves with the project area and prevailing site conditions. Pre-bid site visits outside of the scheduled mandatory site visit will not be allowed. The bids shall be prepared and submitted in accordance with the Instructions to Bidders. Bids must be accompanied by a bid security, satisfactory to the City, in the amount of five percent (5%) of the total bid including all Add Alternates if applicable. The bid security shall be in the form of a bid bond issued by a company licensed to do business in the Commonwealth; or a certified, treasurer’s or cashier’s check, issued by a responsible bank or trust company, payable to the “City of Malden, Massachusetts”. Cash deposits will not be accepted. A Performance Bond and a Labor and Materials Payment Bond each in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the bid will be required of the successful bidder. Contracts for work under this Proposal will obligate the Contractor and Subcontractors to comply with applicable Federal, State, and local provisions regarding prevailing wage rates, insurances, labor, equal employment opportunity, non-discrimination, affirmative action, and Minority and Women workforce participation goals. The City of Malden is encouraging the participation of Minority Business Enterprises (MBEs) and Women’s Business Enterprises (D/WBEs) for this project. The successful bidder will be required to comply with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Supplemental Equal Employment Opportunity, Non-Discrimination, and Affirmative Action Program contained in the Contract Documents. Bidders shall be actively registered in sam.gov or shall have initiated the registration process. Subcontractors employed in the work shall also be actively registered in sam.gov. The project will be subject to Build America Buy America Act (BABAA) requirements enacted as part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021. Bids may be held by the City of Malden for a period not to exceed sixty (60) calendar days from the date of the opening of bids for the purpose of reviewing the bids and investigating the qualifications of bidders prior to awarding the Contract. The City of Malden reserves the right to waive any informality or to reject any or all bids received if deemed to be in their best interest. CITY OF MALDEN Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development Alex Pratt, Director March 07, 2025
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