HomeMy Public PortalAbout00437 O R D I N A N C E NO. 437
AN ORDINANCE prescribing the procedure for inviting
competitive bids and letting contracts for ordinary maintenance
work on sewer and drainage facilities, with an emergency clause.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE
METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT:
Section One. Upon a determination by the Executive
Director that the District lacks equipment or personnel to
undertake ordinary and necessary maintenance work on sewer or
drainage facilities, or that such work can be done at less expense
by contract than by the District, he shall cause to be prepared
such plans, specifications, or other adequate description of a
work or a fiscal year project as may be suitable for inviting
competitive bids. Thereupon, subject to the exception provided in
this section, he shall cause an advertisement for bids to be
published in one or more newspapers of general circulation in the
District in at least one issue thereof. Such publication may be
supplemented by publication in other issues of such newspaper or
newspapers and by such notices in trade papers or magazines and
direct mail circulars as the Executive Director may consider
advisable. Such advertisement or notice shall designate the
letting by a number, shall fix the date, hour, and place of
receipt, public opening, and reading of bids, and shall state that
the right is reserved to reject all bids. The date of opening
shall be not less than seven nor more than ten days after the date
of last publication or last general issue of such notice, as the
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case may be. Security in the form of bid bond, performance bond,
workmen's compensation and liability insurance, or any of them,
may be specified in such notice.
PROVIDED, however, that where the estimated cost of the
work contemplated as a project or as work for a fiscal year does
not exceed TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS ($2,000.00), the Executive
Director may advertise for bids by circular notice to all local
contractors generally known to be engaged in the type of work
contemplated, and by such additional methods of notice as will in
his judgment result in the greatest number of bids.
Section Two. Each bid for work shall be made upon a
blank form to be furnished by the Executive Director, and shall be
placed in a sealed envelope, addressed to the Executive Director
and endorsed "Proposal for Public Maintenance Work", and with the
number of the letting for which the bid is made. Each bid shall
be signed in ink by the bidder, or, when the bid is by a
corporation, firm, or partnership, by an authorized officer, agent
or partner. Evidence of authority to act as attorney in fact or
agent shall be furnished with the bid. No bid shall be opened
before the day and hour fixed in the notice. Any bid may be
withdrawn before the scheduled time for opening bids. No bid may
be withdrawn after the scheduled time for opening bids. All bids
shall be publicly opened and read on the day and hour and at the
place advertised, in the presence of such bidders as desire to be
present.
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Section Three. Except for said right of rejection, the
contract shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder as provided
hereinafter. Within twenty days after the opening of bids, the
Executive Director shall notify the lowest responsible bidder by
registered mail that the award has been made and that, within ten
days after the registration date of such notice, he and the
Executive Director shall execute a contract according to the terms
of his bid. No such contract shall become binding and effective
until the contractor has filed the bond or other security
specified therein. No such contract for more than Two Thousand
Dollars ($2,000.00) shall become binding and effective until
confirmed by ordinance adopted by the Board of Trustees.
Section Four. All such contracts which involve labor
shall require that prevailing rates of pay shall be paid to
skilled and unskilled labor employed thereon, and that there shall
be no discrimination in the selection or employment of labor
because of race, creed, or color. Such provisions shall be
included in the invitations for bids and shall be included in
proposals or bids for such maintenance work.
Section Five. Since an emergency exists by reason of
the necessity to contract for the servicing of publicly operated
septic tanks, this ordinance shall become effective immediately
upon its enactment.
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The foregoing Ordinance was passed on August 5, 1960.