2025 Fall Roadcut Restoration Project

Project Description: Notice is hereby given that the HAZLETON CITY AUTHORITY – WATER DEPARTMENT, City of Hazleton, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, will receive sealed bids online via the PennBid Program (https://pennbid.bonefirehub.com/) for their 2025 Fall Road Cut Restoration Project. Sealed bids will be received until 4:00 PM prevailing time, on Tuesday, November 18, 2025. All such received bids will be publicly opened that night at 6:00 PM via PennBid at the Hazleton City Authority’s R.L. Zientek Administration Building office.
In general, the work to be performed shall consist of mobilization, site preparation, traffic control, milling, tack coat and asphalt overlay in compliance with all Municipal and PaDot standards. Work as awarded shall be complete by end local asphalt plant closing. All bidding documents will be available at no cost via the PennBid Program (https://pennbid.bonefirehub.com/) beginning at 12:00 P.M. on Wednesday, October 29, 2025. Addenda, if any, will be issued to only those persons who are on record as having obtained a set of the Contract Documents.
A certified check or bid bond drawn to the order of the Hazleton City Authority - Water Department in an amount equal to ten percent (10%) of the bid must be submitted with each proposal as bid security and received at the Authority’s Office with all other required bid documents prior to the Bid Opening. Except as otherwise provided by law, all bids are irrevocable and no Bidder may withdraw a bid within sixty (60) consecutive calendar days after the actual date of the bid opening.
The PA Prevailing Wage Rate and all Related Acts shall apply to contractors and subcontractors performing all work. Contractors and subcontractors must pay their laborers and mechanics employed under the contract no less than the prevailing wage determination. All provisions of the Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act, as amended, including provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act shall apply to this project.
This Project falls under The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania enacted Act 127 of 2012, known as the Public Works Employment Verification Act (‘the Act’) which requires all public work contractors and subcontractors to utilize the Federal Government’s E-Verify system to ensure that all employees performing work on public work projects are authorized to work in the United States. All Bidders are required to submit a Public Works Employment Verification Form as a precondition for the Contract Award.
The Hazleton City Authority – Water Department is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Bidders on all work will be required to comply with all requirements of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act No. 222 and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. All bidders are hereby notified that in regard to any contract pursuant to this advertisement, businesses will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this notice and will not be subjected to discrimination on the basis of gender, race, color, creed, sex, age, physical disability or national origin in consideration for an award. Similarly the successful bidder shall in no manner discriminate against or intimidate any employee involved in the manufacture of supplies, the performance of work, or any other activity required under the contract on account of gender, race, creed or color..
Prior to the award of the Contract, the successful bidder shall furnish to the Owner Certificates of Insurance, Performance Bond, Labor and Material Payment Bond, Maintenance Bond, and any other items as required by the Contract Documents. All bonds must be executed by a satisfactory surety. Bidders must comply with all State antibid-rigging regulations pertaining to work associated with this project, and will be required to submit an executed non-collusion affidavit with the bid.
The Hazleton City Authority - Water Department hereby reserves the right in its discretion, which is understood and agreed to by all bidders, to reject any and all bids submitted, and also reserves the right to waive any irregularities, omissions, mistakes, or informality in the Bidding Process deemed to be in the best interest of the Authority. The Bid, if awarded, will be awarded at the sole discretion of the Authority for the lowest total cost to a responsive and responsible Bidder based on a final review of line items as selected by the Owner.