The Schuylkill County Housing Authority will receive sealed bids for work to be performed at the Schuylkill Haven High Rise - PA-16-5. This project is funded by the Capital Fund Program. Electric utility will be upgrading the existing primary service, transformers, transformer vault, conductors, grounding and metering. The Contractors work includes the provision of new secondary service conductors from new transformer vault into the existing building, site restoration and relocation of existing HVAC equipment and miscellaneous other work items depicted and described in the Contract Documents, complete and ready for use and in compliance with the latest codes and regulations. The Design Professional of record is Levkulic Associates, Union Street Station, 101 East Union Street, Pottsville, PA 17901, Telephone: (570) 628-2887. Bidders are hereby notified that this project is subject to the Davis Bacon Federal Prevailing Wage Rate regulations and Contractors will be required to pay the prevailing wage as indicated within the schedules. All requests for Bid Documents must be in writing, with the following information contained thereon: 1) Specific Bid Document(s) requested (Contract Name, Description, etc.), 2) Bidders name, complete street address and contact person, 3) Bidders telephone number, fax number and e-mail address. Addenda, if any, will be issued only to those persons whose name and address are on record with the Design Professional as having obtained the Contract Documents from the Design Professional. A bid may not be modified, withdrawn, or canceled by the bidder for sixty (60) days after the time designated for receipt of bids. Bid security in the amount of 10% of the bid price shall be submitted with the bid. Bid security shall be in one of the following forms only: Certified check (drawn on a bank authorized to conduct business in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania), or bid bond. The surety must be on the latest approved U.S. Treasury List, Circular 570. The bidder will be required to submit a Certificate of Surety with the bid. The successful bidder will be required to furnish a Performance Bond and Labor and Material Payment Bond and each shall be in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the contract price. A one-year Maintenance Bond shall also be required. Cost of bonds to be included in the base bid. The Schuylkill County Housing Authority is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All prospective Bidders are informed that the work covered in this Invitation to Bid is subject to the requirements of Section 3 (24 CFR Part 135). All Bidders must submit a Section 3 Plan as a part of their bid submission or their bid submission(s) may be considered non-responsive. Each Bidder shall also comply with the following Equal Opportunity requirements: 1. Notice of Requirements for Affirmative Action to Ensure Equal Employment Opportunity (Executive Order 11246) 42 CFT 70.42 (d) including the goals and timetable for women (6.9%) as set forth in Appendix A. 2. Standard Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications (Executive Order 11246 41 CFT 60-4.3). 3. Equal Opportunity Clauses (41 CFT 60.1.4(a) and (b)). 4. Section 3 Clauses (24 CFR Part 135.38). The Bid is for a Public Works Contract and the Bidder is subject to the provisions, duties, obligations and penalties of the Public Works Employment Verification Act, 43 P.S. 167.1-167.11. The Schuylkill County Housing Authority reserves the right to reject any or all bids or to waive any technicalities and informalities in the bid for the best interest of the Housing Authority, and to consider the competency and responsibility of the Bidders in awarding the contract.