26-02 Laurel Hill Cemetery Erosion Mitigation Project.

TOWN OF READING

16 Lowell Street

Reading, MA  01867

(781) 942-6696

CONTRACT 26-02 - LAUREL HILL CEMETERY EROSION MITIGATION PROJECT

INVITATION TO BID

The Town of Reading is accepting Sealed Bids for the LAUREL HILL CEMETERY EROSION MITIGATION PROJECT.

The work under this contract consists of resetting and installing salvaged curing and / or new curbing in the Laurel Hill Cemetery for the purpose of controlling stormwater and mitigation erosion.  Incidental work includes, but is not necessarily limited to, patching of the roadways with bituminous asphalt and installing loam and seed.

Bid Documents will be available after 9 a.m. on June 25, 2025 https://www.readingma.gov/Bids.aspx .

All bids shall be submitted to the Reading Town Clerk’s Office prior to July 10, 2025 at 1:00 p.m.at the address listed above.

Each Bid shall be submitted in accordance with the Instructions to Bidders and shall be accompanied by a bid security in the amount of five percent (5%) of the amount Bid. The successful Bidder must furnish a Performance Bond and a Labor and Materials Payment Bond satisfactory in form to the Town, each in the amount of 100% of the Contract Amount from a surety authorized to do business in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and acceptable to the Town.

It is the responsibility of prospective proposers and or bidders to check https://www.readingma.gov/Bids.aspx for new information any addenda or modifications to any solicitation. If any changes are made to this IFB, an addendum will be issued. Addenda will be emailed to all bidders on record as having downloaded the IFB.  The Town assumes no responsibility if a prospective bidder’s designated email address or fax number is not current, or if technical problems, including those with the prospective bidder’s computer, network or internet service provider (ISP) cause email communications sent to/from the prospective bidder to be lost or rejected by any means including email or spam filtering

Complete instructions for filing Bids are included in the Instructions to Bidders.

Minimum Wage Rates as determined by the Commissioner of Department of Workforce Development under the provisions of the Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 149, Section 26 to 27D, as amended, apply to this project. It is the responsibility of the Contractor, before bid opening, to request if necessary, any additional information on Minimum Wage Rates for those tradespeople who may be employed for the proposed work under this Contract.

The bidding and award of this Contract will be under the provisions of M.G.L. Chapter 30, Section 39M.

The Owner reserves the right to waive any informality in or to reject any or all Bids if deemed to be in its best interest.