CONTENTS
Invitation For Bid.............................................................................................................................3
General Conditions of the Contract for Construction ......................................................................5
Supplementary General Conditions .................................................................................................6
General Requirements....................................................................................................................10
Bid .................................................................................................................................................13
Contract .........................................................................................................................................16
EJCDC General Conditions ...........................................................................................................20
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INVITATION FOR BID
CUMBERLAND COUNTY
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
DETENTION CENTER MIXING VALVE REPLACEMENT, FAYETTEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA
Cumberland County, North Carolina
A pre-bid conference will be held at 1:30pm on January 7, 2026, at the project site, 204 Gillespie Street,
Fayetteville, NC. Contractors will convene in the front lobby after the security check.
Pursuant to Section 143-131 of the General Statutes of North Carolina, informal bids are solicited and will be
received in the office of the Cumberland County Engineering Department, Room 214, in the Historic Courthouse
located at 130 Gillespie Street, Fayetteville, North Carolina at any time before 2:00pm as per the clock located
in the Engineering office on February 6, 2026. It is the sole responsibility of the vendor to ensure that the bid
reaches the destination listed above by the designated time and hour. Bids received after the specified date and
time will be rejected.
The Engineering Department encourages all questions to be submitted to Engineering Project Manager, Donna
Rice, via email at drice@cumberlandcountync.gov with the subject “DETENTION CENTER MIXING VALVE
REPLACEMENT” before the conference such that adequate responses may be provided. Individual telephone
responses are discouraged. All questions will be fielded at the pre-bid conference.
Bids must be received via email at drice@cumberlandcountync.gov or delivered to Donna Rice, Engineering
Project Manager at, 130 Gillespie Street, Room 214, Fayetteville, NC 28301. Bids must be submitted on the
printed form, or exact copies thereof, contained in the Contract Documents.
Bidder shall identify on the bid, the minority businesses that will be utilized on the project with corresponding
total dollar value of the bid and affidavit listing good faith efforts or an affidavit indicating work under Contract
will be self-performed, as required by G.S. 143-128.2(c) and G.S. 143-128.2(f). Failure to comply with these
requirements is grounds for rejection of the bid.
The Owner will require the apparent Low Bidder to qualify himself to be a responsible Bidder by furnishing
Affidavit C or Affidavit D of the MWBE Participation Program.
A bid bond in the amount of 5% is required for this project.
Performance and Payment Bonds are required.
All Contractors are notified that North Carolina Statutory provisions as to licensing for Contractors will be
observed in receiving, reading and awarding of contracts.
Plans and specifications, including Contract Documents, are open to public inspection and available upon request
at the Cumberland County Engineering Department Office, 130 Gillespie Street, Fayetteville, NC.
All addendums and/or corrections will be sent by email to vendors who attend the pre-bid conference and be
posted
to
the
Cumberland
County
Vendor
Self
Service
site
https://ccmunis.co.cumberland.nc.us/vss/Vendors/VBids/Default.aspx.
PROHIBITED COMMUNICATION: Each vendor submitting a bid, including its representatives,
subcontractors, and suppliers, is prohibited from having any communication with any employees or members of
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the board of commissioners of the County except those employees of the Engineering Department as designated
in this invitation for bid. A vendor who does not comply with this provision may be disqualified from award of a
contract.
!IMPORTANT INFORMATION! CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: The bid must not contain any
information marked as “confidential” or as a “trade secret” or in any other manner as to indicate that it is
information protected by the Trade Secrets Protection Act ( the “Act”) as set out in Article 24 of Chapter 66 of
the North Carolina General Statutes, unless the vendor has noticed the Engineering Department of its intent
to designate any information in the bid as such and received permission from the Engineering Department
to do so in writing. Vendor’s notice to the Engineering Department must be in writing and must describe the
information for which confidentiality is requested and explain how the information is a “trade secret” as defined
in G.S. § 66-152(3). If the Engineering Department determines the information for which confidentiality is
requested is a “trade secret” covered by the Act, it will notify the vendor how to mark the information in the bid
and will identify the measures that the Engineering Department will take to protect the confidentiality of the
information. Vendor’s submission of a bid after receipt of this notice from the Engineering Department shall be
deemed to be acceptance of the Engineering Department’s statement of how it will maintain confidentiality. If
the Engineering Department determines the information for which confidentiality is requested is not a “trade
secret” covered by the Act, it will notify vendor of that determination. Any bid marked with any information as
“confidential” or as a “trade secret” or in any other manner as to indicate that it is information protected by the
Act in violation of this section shall be regarded as not responsive to the invitation for bids and shall not be
considered.
The County reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive informalities or irregularities. The bidder to
whom the contract may be awarded must comply with the requirements of G.S. Section 143-131, as amended.
No bids may be withdrawn after the scheduled closing time for the receipt of bids for a period of sixty (60) days.
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