HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 121373D - Notice To Bidders - Certificates Of Obligation - Civic Center - 12_13_1973Exhibit A
INVITATION FOR BIDS
PART I - LUBBOCK MEMORIAL CENTER
NOTICE TO BIDDERS OF CITY'S 'INTENTION TO LET CONTRACT OR
CONTRACTS FOR CONSTRUCTING AND EQUIPPING A CiVIC CENTER AND
OF THE CITY'S INTENTION TO ISSUE CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION
IN PAYMENT OF A PORTION OF THE CONTRACT PRICE
SEALED PROPOSALS, addressed to the Mayor and the O'ity of Lubbock, Texas,
will be received at the Office of the City Purchasing Agent, Room 207,
City Hall, loth Street at Texas Avenue, Lubbock, Texas, for the construc-
tion of permanent public improvements, to wit: the furnishing of all
plant, labor, materials and equipment and the performing of all work
required for constructing and equipping a civic center to be known as
Lubbock Memorial Center (sometimes hereinafter called the Project).
THE PROJECT consists of three parts. Part I is the Lubbock Memorial.;`:
Center and Parts II and III are the Memorial Center Complex, Urban
Renewal Project, Tex. R-138(c). All. of Parts 1, 11 and Iti of the Pro-
ject are to be bid and constructed as a combined project.
SEALED BIDS for General Construction, including mechanical work, elec
trical work and elevator work for construction of PART I - LUBBOCK
MEMORIAL CENTER will be received until 12:00 Noon, Central Standard Tlme,
January 18, 1974•
ON THE Bid date mentioned, all proposals will be publicly opened and
read aloud in the Council Chamber Room of the City Hall, Lubbock, Texas,;
and will then be immediately referred to the City's architect for tabu-
lation, checking and evaluation. Final award of the contract or contracts
to be entered into as the result of this notice to bidders will be made,
at 12:00 Noon, on the 21st day of January, 19-74,.by-the-City`Council,
convened at its regular meeting place in the City.Hall.
BiDS ARE INVITED upon several items and major quantities of work for
Part I described fully in the Drawings and Technical Specifications and
approximately described as follows:
PART I ITEMS:
CONVENTION COMPLEX
Consisting of Banquet Hall, Exhibit Hall, Meeting Rooms, Theater,
and other special purpose areas, and including stairways, elevators,
_air conditioning, landscaping, lighting and site development.'
11 CENTRAL PLANT
A separate power plant to serve the entire Memorial Center Complex,.
including a Central Library facility on the site.
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CONTRACT DOCUMENTS, including Drawings and Technical Specifications are
on file at the office of The Architects Group, 1611 Avenue M, Suite 108,
Lubbock, Texas 79401.
COPIES OF THE Contract Documents Part I may be obtained by depositing
One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) in the name of the City of Lubbock, Texas,
for each set of documents so obtained. Each such deposit will be refun-
ded if the documents are returned in good condition within ten (10) days
after Bid Opening, General Construction bidders will be limited to ten
(10) sets. Request for copies of the Contract.Documents, except.General
Construction bidders, will not be considered.
GENERAL CONSTRUCTION BIDDERS will be required to furnish the names of the
Mechanical Work, Electrical Work and Elevator Work subcontractors whom
the General Construction Contractor proposes to use, along with the
amount of their respective bids.
GENERAL CONSTRUCTION BIDDERS must submit a certified check'or bank draft,
payable to the order of the City of Lubbock, Texas, negotiable U.S. Govern-
ment Bonds (at par value), or a satisfactory Bid Bond executed. by the
Bidder and an acceptable surety, in an amount equal to five percent (5%)
of the total Bid for Part I - Lubbock Memorial Center, as a guarantee that
the Bidder will enter into a contract within ten (10) days after notice of
award of contract to him. Bids without check, negotiable bond or Bid Bond
will not be considered.
THE SUCCESSFUL GENERAL CONSTRUCTION BIDDER must furnish a payment bond
and performance bond, upon the forms provided, in the amount of one hun-
dred percent (100%) of the contract price for PART I - LUBBOCK MEMORIAL
CENTER including Mechanical, Electrical and Elevator Work, from an approv-
ed Surety Company holding a permit from the State of Texas to act as'
Surety, or other Surety or Sureties acceptable to the City of Lubbock,,.....,:
Texas.
ATTENTION IS CALLED to the fact that not less than the minimum salaries
and wages set forth in the Contract Documents must be paid on this Pro-
ject, and that the Contractor must ensure that employees and applicants
for employment are not discriminated against because of their race, color,
sex, religion or natural origin.
BIDS MAY BE HELD by the City of Lubbock, Texas, for a period not to exceed
ten (10) calendar days from the date of the opening of the General Construc-
tion bids for the purpose of reviewing the Bids and investigating the
qualifications of the Bidders prior to awarding the Contract.
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SEALED BIDS for General Construction, Including mechanical, electrical
and elevator work, shall bear a notation in the lower left hand corner
of the envelope that contains the Bid proposal stating that a Bid is
contained therein on "General Construction on PART 1 - Lubbock Memorial
Center and Project Improvements, PARTS iI and III, Memorial Center Com
plex, Urban Renewal Project Tex. R-13 c ."
PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS AND CONTRACT DOCUMENTS may be examined without
charge at the Office of the Purchasing Agent, City Nall, Lubbock, Texas,
or at the office of The Architects Group at the address hereinabove
mentioned.
ON THE DATE AND TIME set for the awarding of the contract (in Paragraph
4 of -this Notice) the City proposes to authorize the issuance of Certi-
ficates of Obligation .(payable from taxation) in the maximum principal-.
amount of $3,500,000 in payment of all or a portion of the contract
price and the contractural obligation the City will assume. Certificates
(of Obligation up to such principal amount will supplement proceeds of
bonds heretofore .issued and sold. The successful bidder will be required
to accept such Certificates in payment of all or a portion of the contract.:
price or assign such Certificates to the party with whom the City'has made
provision for the Contractor to sell and assign such Certificated at their
face value (no accrued interest), and each Bidder shall be required to
elect on the bid form whether he will accept or assign such Certificates.
IN CASE OF AMBIGUITY or lack of clarity in stating the contract price,
the City reserves the right to consider the most advantageous construc-
tion thereof or to reject the Bid. The City further reserves the right
-to reject any or all bids or to waive any informalities at bidding.
Mayor, of Lubbock, Texas
Date: December 13, 1973
AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION
THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF LUBBOCK
BEFORE ME, the undersigned authority, on this day personally
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appeared who, after being by me
duly sworn, deposes and says that he is the
of the �� 4z&w4� —
which is'a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Lubbock, j
Texas, published in the City of Lubbock, Texas, and that he pub-
lished a true copy of the NOTICE TO BIDDERS OF CITY'S INTENTION
TO LET CONTRACT OR CONTRACTS FOR CONSTRUCTING AND EQUIPPING A
CIVIC CENTER,.AND OF CITY'S INTENTION TO ISSUE CERTIFICATES OF
OBLIGATION IN PAYMENT OF A PORTION OF THE CONTRACT PRICE, hereto
attached, in said paper on the same day in each of two consecu-
tive weeks, in its issues of:
/J�roi► �/ 1973; and
1973;
the date of the first publication being not less than fourteen
(14) full days prior to the date set for the receipt of bids.
SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBED BEFORE ME, this the a 6� day of
r°vil 197 3 .
Nota y Publid in and for Lubbock
County, Texas
(Notary Seal) _
ERLE MFlRIE BROWN
Notary public in and for Lubbock county TO%ei
My Commission Fxpires wn0 1A 19-M
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