INVITATION TO BID

SEALED BIDS will be received until 2:00 O’clock P.M. Pacific Standard Time on Thursday, February 1, 2024, at the Administrative Office for Public Works (located at 345 W. 7 ^th Street, Building A Conference Room, Merced, California 95341-6041) at which approximate time thereafter they will be publicly opened and their contents made known.

This Advertisement for bids is for the award of one Job Order Contract (JOC) and the work includes repair, alteration, modernization, maintenance, rehabilitation, and demolition work performed on buildings, offices, facilities, structures, infrastructure, or other real property. A JOC is a competitively bid, Unit Price, indefinite quantity contract that is awarded to a Prime Contractor. Once awarded, work is accomplished through the issuance of individual Job Orders. Job Order Contract, JOC- 029, awarded under this solicitation will each have a Minimum Contract Value of Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars and No Cents ($25,000.00) and a Maximum Contract Value of Five Million Seven Hundred Thousand Dollars and No Cents ($5,700,000.00). The County has no obligation to give the Contractor the opportunity to perform Job Orders in excess of the Minimum Contract Value. The County reserves the right to exercise a bilateral option to increase the Maximum Contract Value to the amount currently authorized by the California Public Contract Code (approximately five million, seven hundred ninety-seven thousand, two hundred seventy-five dollars ($5,797,275) during the term of the Contract. The County reserves the right to issue Job Orders totaling less than the Maximum Contract Value. Each contract will be for a term of twelve (12) months. The selected Contractor will enter into the Agreement for Special Services contained in these Specifications. The Standard Form of Agreement Between County/Owner and Contractor, General Conditions, Supplementary Conditions, JOC Special Conditions and other terms and conditions contained in these Specifications will also govern the selected Contractor’s performance of work under the County’s JOC Program, except to the extent such terms and conditions are inconsistent with the Agreement for Special Services.

Bids will be evaluated and entered per the bid Adjustment Factors.

The County of Merced hereinafter also referred to as “County” or “Owner”, anticipates advertising for additional JOC contract(s) in the future.

Drawings, Specifications, and other Documents are on file at the office of Department of Public Works, 345 West 7 ^th Street, Merced, CA, and at other designated locations, where copies may be examined free of charge. Documents may be obtained from the Department of Public Works, 345 West 7 ^th Street, Building A, Merced, CA by intending Bidders for the Contract, who are licensed according to law, free of charge.

A mandatory pre-bid meeting will take place on Tuesday, January 9, 2024 at 10:00 A.M at the Administrative Office for Public Works (located at 345 W. 7th Street, Building A Conference Room, Merced, California.) All Bidders must be in attendance at the Pre-Bid Meeting in order to continue the bidding process. Prospective bidders for this project MUST attend this pre-bid meeting. Bids will not be accepted from those that have not attended.

Please RSVP your attendance by sending an email to Cynthia.Guillen@countyofmerced.com For security reasons, you must enable JavaScript to view this E-mail address. by close of business day January 8, 2024.

The purpose of the Pre-Bid Meeting is to go over key dates and requirements for the solicitation, discuss the Job Order Contract (JOC) concept and discuss JOC from a Contractor’s perspective.

The County strongly encourages a responsible managing officer from the Contractor’s office to attend this meeting.

Questions from interested prospective bidders will only be accepted by the County in writing via written correspondence or via Internet electronic mail (preferred) to Cynthia Guillen, at the Department of Public Works offices located at 345 W. 7 ^th Street, Merced, California 95341-6041 or at Cynthia.Guillen@countyofmerced.com For security reasons, you must enable JavaScript to view this E-mail address. , respectively. Neither the County nor its representative will be responsible for any oral instructions. No interpretations will be issued later than three (3) calendar days prior to the bid date so that all inquiries can be answered in writing and distributed to all bidders on the plan-holders list in the form of addenda to the contract in ample time before the bid opening date. The cutoff for questions from interested prospective bidders is Tuesday, January 23, 2024 at 3:00 PM.

Bidders shall furnish an initial Payment Bond in the amount of Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars and No Cents ($250,000.00) and an initial Performance Bond in the amount of Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars and No Cents ($250,000.00).

Drawings, Specifications and other Documents will be issued only to those Contractors whose valid license allows them to be the prime Contractor for this project. Others may examine the documents at the office of the Department of Public Works/Administration Division or at other designated locations.

Bids, in order to receive consideration, shall be made and submitted in accordance with the requirements and conditions set forth in the Instructions to Bidders and in the aforesaid Drawings, Specifications and other Documents. Neither partial nor contingent Bids will be considered.

The Bid of any Contractor who has previously violated the terms of the Federal Labor Laws, and who has not been cleared of such violations, will not be honored. Also, any Sub-Contractor under him under the same circumstance will not be accepted for this project.

The Contractor shall possess the following licenses and requirements:

JOC – 029: Class A Contractors license is required at the time this contract is to be awarded.

The County selected The Gordian Group’s (Gordian) Job Order Contracting (JOC) Solution for their JOC program. The Gordian JOC SolutionTM includes Gordian’s proprietary JOC Information Management System (“JOC IMS”), construction cost data, and Construction Task Catalog® which shall be used by the Contractor solely for the purpose of fulfilling its obligations under this Contract, including the preparation and submission of Job Order Proposals, Price Proposals, subcontractor lists, and other requirements specified by the Owner. The Contractor shall be required to execute Gordian’s General Terms of Use and pay a 1% JOC System License Fee to obtain access to the Gordian JOC SolutionTM. The JOC System License Fee applies to all Job Orders issued to the Contractor under the terms of this Contract. The Contractor shall include the JOC System License Fee in the Adjustment Factors.

Pursuant to the provisions set forth in Sections 1770 to 1781, inclusive, and Sections 1810 to 1817, inclusive, of the Labor Code of the State of California, and local laws thereto applicable, the Board of Supervisors of Merced County, in the manner required by law, has ascertained the general prevailing Rate of Wages and also the hourly rates for Saturday, Sunday, Holiday and overtime work, in the locality where this work is to be performed, for each craft, classification and type of Workman or Mechanic needed to perform the work of this project, has adopted, by Resolution No. 79-38, and has published this wage scale in accordance with Sections 1773 and 1773.2 of the said Labor Code, which scale will become a part of the Contract. A copy of this wage scale may also be obtained from the Office of the County Clerk of Merced County or at the following Web Site: www.dir.ca.gov/dlsr .

Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to SB854 (Stat. 2014, Chapter 28):

No contractor or subcontractor may be listed on a bid proposal for a public works project unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5 [with limited exceptions from this requirement for bid purposes only under Labor Code section 1771.1(a)].

No contractor or subcontractor may be awarded a contract for public work on a public works project unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5.

This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations.

It shall be mandatory upon the Contractor to whom the Contract is awarded, and upon all Sub-Contractors under him, to ascertain and pay not less than the latest general prevailing rate of wages and to pay not less than the general prevailing hourly rates for Saturday, Sunday, Holiday and overtime work for each Workman or Mechanic employed in the execution of the work of this project.

Contractors may substitute an Escrow Agreement for performance retention in accordance with the State of California Public Contract Code Section 22300.

Bid Security in the amount of Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars and No Cents ($25,000.00) shall accompany the Bid, in accordance with the provisions set forth in the Instructions to Bidders.

The Board of Supervisors of Merced County reserves the right to reject any or all bids, and to waive any informalities or irregularities in any Bid or in the Bidding.

By order of the Board of Supervisors of Merced County, Merced, California.

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DANA S. HERTFELDER, DIRECTOR

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS