The public cannot attend but can view the bid opening at website. All bids emailed, faxed, mailed or hand delivered will not be considered and will be returned to the Bidder. There is no bid depository safe available for mailing or hand delivering bids. The District will only accept bids electronically uploaded to the Bonfire Porta. Please see specific instructions on how to upload your bid to the Bonfire Portal in the bid document entitled "Submission via the Bonfire Portal." Bids will be deemed non-responsive if not submitted using the Bonfire-project specific URL link, provided by the District with the bidding documents. Failure to submit the required documents as specified may render the bid non-responsive and the bid may be rejected. The Contract is comprised of two (2) items. Bidders must submit bids for both items or the bid will be rejected as non-responsive. The District intends to award one (1) Contract to one (1) Bidder for all the items. The Cost Estimate of this Contract is: $52,500.00. There is no bid deposit required. Funding of all contract items is subject to the Board of Commissioners approval of budget for those years. Further, the District assumes no liability or responsibility for the failure or inability of any Bidder to successfully download any and all Contract documents, including but not limited to specifications, proposal forms and/or plans, as a result of any type of technological computer and/or software system failure or breakdown that restricts, prohibits or prevents successful downloading of any and all District Contract documents by the Bidder, whether caused by the District or other parties, directly or indirectly. The District will provide an online response to such inquiries, as the District deems appropriate. Strings of appropriate questions and answers regarding the bidding documents will be available online on the District's website until the bid opening date of the bidding documents. No questions will be accepted by telephone, fax, email, mail, or any other such form of delivery. The District will only respond to questions received online up to ONE WEEK prior to the bid opening date of the bidding documents. The District will not respond to questions received after this date. The District does not guarantee the timeliness of responses provided online, nor does the District guarantee that such responses will be provided in adequate time to affect the submission of bids. The District shall provide responses online ONLY if the responses do not interpret or otherwise change the bidding documents. The District's responses online are NOT official responses and, therefore, are not binding to the bidding documents. Any official interpretation or change to the bidding documents will be made only by addenda duly issued to all plan holders on record by the Director of Procurement and Materials Management. Bidding documents are only available online, and all addenda issued for this Contract will be available online at the District's website. The path is as follows: Doing Business Procurement and Materials Management Contract Announcements. A copy of such addenda will also be emailed/faxed to each person which downloads a set of such Contract documents. Failure on the part of the prospective Bidder to receive a written interpretation prior to the time of the opening of bids will not be grounds for withdrawal of proposal. The contact person for this Contract is Dr. Essam El-Naggar. Dr. El-Naggar will provide online responses to online inquiries. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago reserves the right to reject any or all Proposals.