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Bid Title

Tennis Courts (3-6) Irrigation Upgrade

Issuing Agency

Town of Lincoln

Location

Massachusetts

Published Date

Dec 1, 2025

Closing Date

Dec 17, 2025

Government Level

State & Local

Status

Closed

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Project Description

Bid Title:	Tennis Courts (3-6) Irrigation Upgrade
Category:	Parks and Recreation Department
Status:	Open

Description: TOWN OF LINCOLN MASSACHUSETTS INVITATION FOR BIDS CLAY TENNIS COURT IRRIGATION SYSTEM REPLACEMENT COURTS 3-6 The Town of Lincoln will be soliciting bids for an irrigation replacement project at courts 3 - 6 of the Lincoln Clay Tennis Courts located on Ballfield Road, Lincoln, MA under MGL 30, 39M.  This will be a prevailing wage project.  The irrigation project consists of the furnishing and installation of a three zone, nine head irrigation system at both courts 3 & 4 and 5 & 6 of the Lincoln Clay Tennis Courts. This system will be replacing an already existing system. Bid Documents: Available Monday, December 1 st , 2025 on the Lincoln Town website (at link below) and at the Lincoln Town Offices (16 Lincoln Road, Lincoln, MA 01773). Pre-Bid Meeting/Site Walk: Tuesday, December 9th at 11:00am.  Bidders should meet outside at Tennis Courts at 1 Ballfield Road, Lincoln, MA 01773. Bid Due Date: Wednesday, December 17 th , 2025 at 12pm to Jessica Downing at For security reasons, you must enable JavaScript to view this E-mail address. , or mailed to Jessica Downing, Lincoln Parks & Recreation, 16 Lincoln Rd. Lincoln, MA 01773. Direct all project questions to Jessica Downing, Lincoln Parks & Recreation Director at 781-259-0784 or via email to For security reasons, you must enable JavaScript to view this E-mail address. . Download bid packet HERE Publication Date/Time: 12/1/2025 8:00 AM Closing Date/Time: 12/17/2025 12:00 PM Pre-bid Meeting: 12/9/25 11:00am Contact Person: Jessica Downing Jdowning@lincnet.org 781-259-0784 Related Documents: 2025 Tennis Court Irrigation Bid Packet

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TOWN OF LINCOLN

MASSACHUSETTS

INVITATION FOR BIDS

CLAY TENNIS COURT IRRIGATION SYSTEM REPLACEMENT

COURTS 3-6

The Town of Lincoln will be soliciting bids for an irrigation replacement project at

courts 3 - 6 of the Lincoln Clay Tennis Courts located on Ballfield Road, Lincoln,

MA under MGL 30, 39M. This will be a prevailing wage project. The irrigation

project consists of the furnishing and installation of a three zone, nine head

irrigation system at both courts 3 & 4 and 5 & 6 of the Lincoln Clay Tennis

Courts. This system will be replacing an already existing system.

Bid Documents: Available Monday, December 1st, 2025 on the Lincoln Town

website and at the Lincoln Town Offices (16 Lincoln Road, Lincoln, MA 01773).

Pre-Bid Meeting/Site Walk: Tuesday, December 9th at 11:00am. Bidders should

meet outside at Tennis Courts at 1 Ballfield Road, Lincoln, MA 01773.

Bid Due Date: Wednesday, December 17th, 2025 at 12pm to Jessica Downing at

jdowning@lincnet.org, or mailed to Jessica Downing, Lincoln Parks &

Recreation, 16 Lincoln Rd. Lincoln, MA 01773.

Direct all project questions to Jessica Downing, Lincoln Parks & Recreation

Director at 781-259-0784 or via email to jdowning@lincnet.org.

11/19/25

BID INSTRUCTIONS

CLAY TENNIS COURT IRRIGATION SYSTEM REPLACEMENT

COURTS 3-6

The Town of Lincoln will accept bids for an irrigation replacement project at courts 3 – 6 of the

Lincoln Clay Tennis Courts located on Ballfield Road, Lincoln, MA

Copies of bid specifications are available for download at the Town's website:

www.lincolntown.org.

The full Bid specifications are comprised of:

1) Invitation to Bid

2) Bid Instructions

3) Bidding Specifications

4) Bid Response Sheet

A pre-bid meeting/site walk will be held on Tuesday, December 9, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m. at the

clay tennis courts – 1 Ballfield Road, Lincoln, MA 01773. All interested bidders are encouraged to

attend.

Bids shall be sent to Jessica Downing by mail: Jessica Downing, Lincoln Parks & Recreation, 16

Lincoln Road, Lincoln, Massachusetts 01773, or email: Jessica Downing at jdowning@lincnet.org

by Wednesday, December 17, 2025 @ 12:00 p.m.

The Town will make an award to the lowest responsible and responsive bidder within seven (7)

business days of the acceptance of the bids. The lowest bidder will be determined by the total

contract price.

The Town reserves the right to reject any or all bids if it were in the Town's interest to do so. The

Town also reserves the right to waive any informalities.

All bids must comply with the following conditions:

1. All bids shall be submitted on the Bid Response Sheet provided in this specification.

2. Bid Response Sheet - The bidder shall include on the Bid Response Sheet the name

and address of the bidder, a telephone number and the times when he/she can be

contacted and three references from other similar projects completed. The bidder shall also

provide his/her social security or federal identification number.

3. Insurance - coverage as specified below shall be taken out in a company or

companies authorized to do such business in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and

shall be written for not less than any limits of liability as specified herein below, or required

by law, whichever is greater.

a. Worker's Compensation and other benefits as required under Chapter 152 of the

General Laws, as amended, and Section 34A of Chapter 149 of the General Laws.

b. Employer's Liability with a limit of at least $100,000 each accident.

c. Comprehensive General Liability and Automotive Liability: General Liability shall

include Contractor's Liability, Completed Operations and Products Liability; all on

the occurrence basis with Personal Injury Coverage and Broad Form Property

Damage. Automotive Liability shall include coverage for owner, non-owned and

hired automobiles, where applicable.

d. Combined single limit for Comprehensive General Liability and Automotive Liability:

e. Each Person $1,000,000 Each Occurrence $1,000,000

f. The Town of Lincoln will be named as an additional insured on all policies.

g. Certificates of Insurance shall be submitted to the Town simultaneously with the

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execution of the Contract. Certificates shall Indicate that Contractual Liability

coverage is in force. These Certificates shall contain a provision that the insurance

company will notify the Town by registered mail at least thirty days in advance of

any cancellation, change or expiration of the policies.

4. The Town of Lincoln will make an award to the lowest responsible and responsive bidder.

The responsive bidder will be the one who meets all bid requirements and submits all

required information to the Town. The responsible bidder will be determined through

reference checks.

5. Bid Deposit – All bids with a value over $50,000 shall be accompanied by a bid deposit in

the form of a bid bond, or cash, or a certified check on, or a treasurer's or cashier's check

issued by a responsible bank or trust company, payable to the Town of Lincoln. The

amount of such bid deposit shall be five percent of the total value of the bid.

6. Payment Bond – If selected as contractor, the vendor will, within ten days (Saturdays,

Sundays and legal holidays excluded), following notification of selection, provide a payment

bond, from a surety company qualified to do business under the laws of the

Commonwealth and satisfactory to the awarding authority, in the sum of fifty percent of the

contract price, the premiums for which are to be paid by the contractor and are included in

the contract price.

7. This contracted work shall be completed by April 27, 2026.

8. A Pre-Bid Meeting/Site-Walk will be held on Tuesday, December 9, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.

at the Lincoln Clay Tennis Courts located at 1 Ballfield Road Lincoln, MA 01773.

Questions regarding this bid may be submitted to Jessica Downing - Parks and Recreation

Director in writing via email (jdowning@lincnet.org) no later than Friday, December 12,

2025 at 12:00PM.

9. The Terms and Conditions of the contract are spelled out in this Invitation to Bid, in

the Specifications, and in the Bid Response Sheet, all of which will be part of the contract

document. The successful bidder will be acknowledged with a letter of award, which will be

signed by both parties. This letter will also become part of the contract document.

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Middlesex County…Massachusetts

PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT

16 Lincoln Road

Lincoln, MA 01773

Tel 781 259-0784

Fax 781 259-1333

www.LincolnRec.com

SPECIFICATIONS FOR GOODS AND/OR SERVICES

GOODS/SERVICE

Install new tennis court irrigation system for courts three through six at Lincoln, MA public clay tennis

courts located on Ballfield Road consisting of three zones and nine heads per court battery.

USE

Irrigation system servicing courts 3-6 at Lincoln, MA public clay courts.

SPECIFICATIONS

This installation will consist of installing a 2 inch mainline poly pipe from the bathroom building to

the backside of the tennis court to feed all valves. All valves to be located on the backside of

tennis court along the wooded area. There will be 3 zones per two courts, along with 9 sprinkler

heads. During this installation most of the sprinkler heads will be fed from the outside of the court

preventing most damage to the clay. This project must take place by April 27, 2025. Timing will

be coordinated with the Director of Parks & Recreation.

Materials:

• Controller Type: Existing Hydrawise

• Wire Type: 18 Gauge

• Rain Gauge: Hunter Rain-Gauge Wireless

• Head Type: Impact

• Electric Valves: 2” Hunter

• Valve Box: Ameteck

• Pipe: 2” Poly main, 1 1/2” Zone Feed & 1” Copper Riser (To Feed Head)

• Hardware: 100% Stainless Steel Clamps

• Irrigation Main Line 2” (Pipe Feeding From Bathroom)

• Irrigation Zone Feed 1 ½” (Pipe From Valve Through Tennis Court)

• Impact Head Riser 1” (1” copper with isolated ball valve in valve box)

• Master valve to feed system at backside of bathroom building with ball valve

• Water box sigot at back of bathroom building before master valve (independent of).

Special Notes:

• Vendor shall remove and dispose of lines that are currently located in replacement areas

or any other old lines that are showing through the clay.

• Vendor must agree to return premises to its original condition with the exception of trench areas

through the courts, which Lincoln Parks & Rec will be responsible for restoring.

• Vendor must have experience installing and or maintaining irrigation systems at clay tennis

courts.

• Vendor shall provide all labor at state prevailing wage rates, equipment and materials

necessary to meet the job specifications.

• Vendor shall provide a 50% payment bond.

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• Any vendors wishing to see the work site are encouraged to contact Jessica Downing at

jdowning@lincnet.org to schedule a visit.

• Work must be completed during the month of April, 2025. Specific date and timing will be

coordinated with the Director of Parks & Recreation.

ATTACHMENTS

• Tennis Court Irrigation Bid Response Sheet

• Town of Lincoln Standard 30B Contract Sample

• State of Massachusetts Prevailing Wage Documentation

Please submit proposals by email to jdonwing@lincnet.org, or by postal mail by December 17 to:

JESSICA DOWNING

PARKS AND RECREATION DIRECTOR

TOWN OF LINCOLN

16 LINCOLN ROAD

LINCOLN, MA 01773

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Commodity Codes

• NAICS 238990All Other Specialty Trade Contractors

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