The Board of County Commissioners will award a Contract to the low, responsive and responsible Respondent, price and other factors considered. The County will award one Contract for this requirement. The Board of County Commissioners, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to waive any informality concerning bid proposals whenever such rejection or waiver is in the best interest of the County. The ability of a Respondent to obtain a performance bond and a payment bond shall not be regarded as the sole test of such Respondent's competency or responsibility. Nothing contained herein shall place a duty upon the County to reject bids or award a Contract based upon anything other than its sole discretion as described herein. When more than one method of work is prescribed in the solicitation with separate pricing allowed for each method, the County will select the method determined to be in its best interests, price and other factors considered. Determination of the low Respondent when additive or deductive bid items are involved shall be as follows: The Estimated Cost for this project is $5,657,495.00 The question and answer module of online IS being utilized for this solicitation. Timely questions concerning this solicitation shall be submitted in accordance with the deadline for questions Question Deadline 10/03/2024 at 4:00 PM ET Julianne Foyil Buyer Email: julianne.foyil@ocfl.net Phone: (407) 836-5639 Should the Contractor fail to substantially complete all Work under this Contract and make the project available for beneficial use on or before the date stipulated for Substantial Completion (or such later date as may result from extension of time granted by County), he shall pay and/or the County may retain from the compensation otherwise to be paid to the Contractor, as liquidated damages, the sum of $150.00 for each consecutive calendar day that terms of the Contract remain unfulfilled beyond date allowed by the Contract, which sum is agreed upon as a reasonable and proper measure of damages which County will sustain per diem by failure of Contractor to complete work within time as stipulated; it being recognized by County and Contractor that the injury to County which could result from a failure of Contractor to complete on schedule is uncertain and cannot be computed exactly. In no way shall costs for liquidated damages be construed as a penalty on the Contractor. For each consecutive calendar day that the work remains incomplete after the date established for Final Completion, the County will retain from the compensation otherwise to be paid to the Contractor the sum of $150.00. This amount is the mutually agreed upon minimum measure of damages the County will sustain by failure of the Contractor to complete all remedial work, correct deficient work, clean up the project and other miscellaneous tasks as required to complete all Work specified and this amount of liquidated damages is in addition to the liquidated damages prescribed above for failure to timely achieve Substantial Completion. The Board of County Commissioners will award a Contract to the low, responsive and responsible Respondent, price and other factors considered. The County will award one Contract for this requirement. The Board of County Commissioners, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to waive any informality concerning bid proposals whenever such rejection or waiver is in the best interest of the County. The ability of a Respondent to obtain a performance bond and a payment bond shall not be regarded as the sole test of such Respondent's competency or responsibility. Nothing contained herein shall place a duty upon the County to reject bids or award a Contract based upon anything other than its sole discretion as described herein. When more than one method of work is prescribed in the solicitation with separate pricing allowed for each method, the County will select the method determined to be in its best interests, price and other factors considered.