Due to the current circumstances related to COVID-19, we will not be hosting a pre-bid meeting. Chicago Botanic Garden, Shade Evaluation Garden - Bid Package 2, located at Lake Cook Road just east of the Eden's Expressway. Contracts consist of work related to the new Shade Evaluation Garden and Shoreline Restoration Project. SHADE EVALUATION GARDEN: Work includes the selective removal of existing, plantings, trees, service drive curbs and pavement, stripping and removal of existing soils adjacent to the service drive, installation of manufactured soils to new grades, new service drive pavement and curbs, all related SWPPP measures, irrigation main, branch lines and heads, trees, plantings, shrubs, edging, signage, brick pavers, pathways, pergolas, tree tunnels and arbors. SHORELINE RESTORATION: Work includes the selective removal of existing, plantings, trees, and removal of existing soils along the shoreline, installation of sheet piling and sandbag coffer dams, dewatering of a portion of Prairie Lake, pond bottom removal and recontouring, installation of new shoreline stone berms, geogrid, manufactured planting soil, related plantings, new boat ramp at Evening Lake, all related SWPPP measures, storm utility work and bypass pumping station. COMPLETION DATE: Project Completion date is November 10, 2021 All questions should be directed to the following Bulley and Andrews, LLC contacts: Catherine Solecki, Sr. Project Manager (847) 354-3780, csolecki@bulley.com Jack Campo, Project Engineer (312) 771-6531, jcampo@bulley.com Bidders must file a copy of the AIA-A305 Contractor's Qualification Statement with Bulley and Andrews within 48 hours after the Pre-bid Meeting date in conformance with the instructions set forth in the Information for Bidders. The Chicago Horticultural Society reserves the right to reject any and all bids. The Chicago Horticultural Society hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively insure, that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, minority business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation. The Garden aspires to the following annual Program Goals: A goal of twenty-five percent (25%)of the annual total dollar amount of Contracts to MBEs, and ten percent (10%) of the total dollar amount of such Contracts to WBEs.