Project Information

Bid Title

BATTERY E ACTIVATED SLUDGE FACILITY, OWRP

Issuing Agency

METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO

Location

Illinois

Published Date

Feb 10, 2026

Closing Date

Mar 3, 2026

Government Level

State & Local

Status

Closed

Ref. #

21-092-3P

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Project Description

Contract Number: 21-092-3P

Contract Description: BATTERY E ACTIVATED SLUDGE FACILITY, OWRP

Estimated Cost: BETWEEN $308,754,750.00 AND $373,755,750.00

Bid Deposit: $3,737,557.00

Pre-Bid Walkthrough: Optional Pre-Bid Walk-Through will be held on Thursday, October 2,2025, at 1:00 P.M. Chicago Time at the O’Brien Water Reclamation Plant, 3500 Howard St., Skokie, County of Cook, State of Illinois, 60076.

Pre-Bid Technical Conference: Voluntary Technical Pre Bid Conference: Friday, October 3, 2025 at 10:00 am Chicago Time via ZOOM Link.

Advertise Date: 09/17/2025

Bid Opening Date/Time: 03/03/2026

Notes: Addendum No.7 dated January 16,2026,extending Bid Opening Date to March 3,2026.Addendum No.6 dated December 19,2025.Addendum No.5 dated December 1,2025,extending Bid Opening Date to January 27,2026.Addendum No.4 dated November 12,2025,extending Bid Opening Date to December 9,2025.Addendum No.3 dated October 21,2025.Addendum No.2 dated October 7,2025,extending Bid Opening Date to November 18,2025.Addendum No.1 dated September 18,2025,extending Bid Opening Date to October 28,2025.Compliance with the District's Affirmative Action Ordinance Revised Appendix D, Appendix V, and the Multi Project Labor Agreement are required on this Contract.
Any contract or contracts awarded under this invitation for bids are expected to be funded in part by a loan from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA). Neither the State of Illinois nor any of its departments, agencies, or employees is or will be a party to this invitation for bids or any resulting contract. The procurement will be subject to regulations contained in the Procedures for Issuing Loans from the Water Pollution Control Loan Program (35 IAC Part 365), the Davis-Bacon Act (40 USC 276a through 276a-5) as defined by the United States Department of Labor, the Employment of Illinois Workers on Public Works Act (30 ILCS 570), Illinois Works Jobs Program Act (30 ILCS 559/20-1), and the federal “Build America, Buy America Act” requirements contained in the Infrastructure and Investment and Jobs Act, Pub. L. No. 117-58. This procurement is also subject to the loan recipient’s policy regarding the increased use of disadvantaged business enterprises. The loan recipient’s policy requires all bidders to undertake specified affirmative efforts at least sixteen (16) days prior to bid opening. The policy is contained in the specifications. The requirements for bidders and contractors under this order are explained in 41 CFR 60-4.

Number of Addenda: 7

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NOTICE

INVITATION TO BID

METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO

FOR

BATTERY E ACTIVATED SLUDGE FACILITY

AT THE O’BRIEN WATER RECLAMATION PLANT

SKOKIE, ILLINOIS

CONTRACT 21-092-3P

PROPOSALS ARE DUE TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2025

Sealed proposals, endorsed as above, will be submitted back to the District via an electronic upload

to the Euna Portal only, from the date of the Invitation to Bid, up to 11:00 A.M. (Central Time),

on the bid opening date, and will be opened publicly by the Director of Procurement and Materials

Management or designee at 11:00 AM on Tuesday, October 14, 2025. The public cannot attend

but can view the bid opening at https://mwrd.org/bid-opening.

No bids will be accepted after 11:00 AM on the above scheduled bid opening date. All bids

faxed, mailed, emailed, 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 Euna Portal (please see

instructions on how to upload the bid response on pages Euna-1 and Euna-2). Please see

specific instructions on how to upload your bid to the Euna Portal in the bid document

entitled “Submission via the Euna Portal.” Bids will be deemed non-responsive if not

submitted using the Euna-project specific URL link, provided by the District with the

bidding documents.

Specifications, proposal forms and/or plans may be obtained from the Department of Procurement

and Materials Management by downloading online from the District's website at www.mwrd.org

(Doing BusinessProcurement & Materials ManagementContract Announcements). No fee is

required for the Contract Documents. Any questions regarding the downloading of the Contract

Document should be directed to the following email: contractdesk@mwrd.org or call 312-751-

6643.

Tenders are invited to provide all necessary labor, supervision, tools, equipment, materials and

appurtenances to complete the following:

1. Construction of the 8’-0” x 8’-0” cast in place concrete Battery E Influent Conduit, extending

from the north side of the existing Meter Building to the new Battery E Mixing Chamber, and

including a new motorized knife gate valve and magnetic flow meter

2. Relocation of the existing 8’-0” x 8’-0” cast in place concrete Battery D Influent Conduit.

3. Relocation of the existing 10” WAS piping from the Battery D Operating Gallery.

4. Construction of the 8’-0” x 8’-0” cast in place concrete Battery E Utility Tunnel, extending

from the north side of the existing Meter Building to the new Battery E Operating Gallery.

5. Construction of the cast in place concrete Mixing Chamber including a concrete baffle wall,

a concrete chimney inlet, and all associated equipment.

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6. Construction of the cast in place concrete 3-pass Fermenter Tank, including fourteen (14)

mechanical mixers and all associated equipment.

7. Construction of the cast in place concrete 1-pass Anoxic Pass, including six (6) mechanical

mixers and all associated equipment.

8. Construction of the cast in place concrete Influent Channel, including four (4) mechanical

mixers, six (6) motorized slide gates, stop logs, and all associated equipment.

9. Construction of six (6) cast in place concrete 2-pass Aeration Tanks, with each tank including

two (2) mechanical mixers, one (1) FRP baffle wall, one (1) IMLR pump, fine bubble

membrane disc air diffuser system, aeration supply piping, and all associated equipment.

10. Construction of the cast in place concrete Return Activated Sludge (RAS) conduit including

one (1) underground 63-inch DR26 diameter RAS HDPE pipe from the RAS conduit to the

Mixing Chamber, two (2) motorized knife gate valves, one (1) 60-inch magnetic flow meter,

and associated equipment.

11. Construction of the cast in place concrete Mixed Liquor Channel including stop logs, eight (8)

motorized slide gates, coarse bubble diffusers, and all associated equipment and piping.

12. Construction of the Battery E Operating Gallery Building which includes sixteen (16) RAS

airlift pumps, three (3) Fermenter RAS centrifugal pumps and associated piping, two (2) WAS

centrifugal pumps and associated piping, aeration supply piping, and other support facilities

and equipment. The building consists of cast in place concrete foundation, masonry

superstructure, and metal deck roof supported on steel beams.

13. Construction of eight (8) cast in place 112-ft inside diameter circular Final Settling Tanks,

with each tank including sludge collection rake arms and drive mechanism, automatic flushing

scum removal equipment, perimeter effluent weirs, FRP launder covers, and associate

conduits and piping for influent, effluent, sludge withdrawal, and scum removal.

14. Construction of the 8’-0” x 8’-0” cast in place concrete Battery E Effluent Conduit running

from the Battery E Final Settling Tanks to the existing plant effluent conduit at the northeast

of Battery D.

15. Relocation of the existing effluent pipes for FST’s C-17 and C-18.

16. Installation of the above ground steel 48-inch diameter air main which will be extended from

the existing 48-inch diameter air main between Batteries C and D to both the new Battery E

Operating Gallery and to the existing 48-inch diameter air main in existing Battery D

Operating Gallery.

17. Installation of the 36-inch diameter ductile iron process drain which will be extended from the

Battery E Operating Gallery to the existing process drain manhole south of the Process Control

Building.

18. Construction of the cast in place concrete Post-Aeration Tank, including six (6) motorized

slide gates, fine bubble ceramic plate air diffuser system, aeration supply piping, and all

associated equipment.

19. Installation of other ancillary infrastructure, including the following:

a. Yard piping/utilities, site pavements, screening wall, site grading, and all other Civil

work required for the new facilities.

b. Structural, Architectural, HVAC, and Plumbing work required for the new facilities.

c. Electrical and Instrumentation & Control work required to power and control all new

Battery E equipment from the existing Process Control Building.

The site of the proposed work is at the Terrance J. O’Brien Water Reclamation Plant, 3500 Howard

Street, Village of Skokie, County of Cook, State of Illinois.

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Funding of all contract items is subject to the Board of Commissioners’ approval of the budget for

those years.

The estimated cost of this Contract is between $308,754,750.00 and $373,755,750.00

The bid deposit for this proposal is (THREE MILLION SEVEN HUNDRED THIRTY-

SEVEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED FIFTY-SEVEN) $3,737,557.00

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.

If any potential Bidder contemplating to submit a proposal is in doubt as to the true meaning of

any part of the specifications or other contract documents, such inquiry should be submitted online

at the District’s website, www.mwrd.org. The path is as follows: Doing BusinessProcurement

and Materials ManagementContract Announcements. 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, www.mwrd.org. 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.

Each proposal must be accompanied by a bid deposit in the form of a bid bond in the amount of

(THREE MILLION SEVEN HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED

FITFTY-SEVEN) $3,737,557.00. Each bid bond must be underwritten by a surety licensed to do

business in the State of Illinois, listed in the latest copy of the Federal Register and approved by

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the Director of Procurement and Materials Management. The bid bond must contain signatures

from the Bidder and Surety Company. Failure to provide signatures on the bid bond will result in

the rejection of the bid. Photographic and/or stamped signatures are acceptable. Any proposal

submitted without being accompanied by the required bid deposit, in the aforesaid form, will not

be considered and will not be read after it is publicly opened.

Prior to award of the contract, the lowest responsible Bidder must demonstrate compliance with

the District’s Multi-Project Labor Agreement by submitting to the Director of Procurement and

Materials Management a signed Certificate of Compliance with the Multi-Project Labor

Agreement. The Agreement and Certificate of Compliance are contained in the Contract

Documents.

The bid money value of all materials purchased directly by the Contractor, together with the bid

money value of all work performed by personnel and facilities provided directly by the Contractor,

shall not be less than 25% of the money value of all work performed under this Contract. Any bid

money value of work performed by the Subcontractors for work on the job site utilizing

Subcontractors' materials, labor and facilities cannot be included in the percent of work to be

completed by the Contractor.

Each Bidder must submit with their proposals a signed and completed MBE/WBE Utilization Plan

which lists each business intended to be used as a MBE and WBE on pages UP-2 and UP-3 and

supplemental pages as necessary. The Bidder must sign the Signature Section page on UP-4.

Failure to submit a signed MBE/WBE Utilization Plan will result in a bid being deemed non-

responsive and the bid will be rejected. Also, if a Waiver is sought, the Bidder is required to sign

pages UP-4 and UP-5, which is the Waiver Request Form; failure to do so will be viewed as non-

responsive and the bid will be rejected.

Each Bidder must submit with their bid package an original or facsimile copy of the MBE/WBE

Subcontractor’s Letter of lntent, page UP-6 for each subcontractor listed on their MBE/WBE

Utilization Plan. The submitted MBE/WBE Subcontractor’s Letter of Intent must be completed

and signed by the subcontractor and accompanied with a copy of the subcontractor’s current Letter

of Certification from a state, local government or agency or documentation demonstrating that the

subcontractor is a MBE or WBE within the meaning of the Affirmative Action Ordinance, Revised

Appendix D. Failure to submit the MBE/WBE Utilization Plan signed by the Bidder at the time of

the bid opening and the MBE/WBE Subcontractor’s Letter of Intent signed by each MBE and

WBE will be viewed as non- responsive and the bid will be rejected.

If the Bidder exceeds the allowable Supplier Utilization amount which is stated in the bid

documents, the bid will be viewed as non-responsive. Therefore, the Bidder may not exceed the

use of a MBE or WBE supplier for more than 50% of each respective MBE or WBE, goal, unless

the Administrator has authorized a Supplier’s Exception notated on page AU-I.

Each Bidder must submit with their proposals a completed VBE Commitment Form which lists

each business intended to be used as a VBE. The Bidder must make a “Good Faith Effort” to

identify eligible Veteran Owned-Businesses by completing the VBE Commitment Form. If the

Bidder is unable to identify qualified VBE subcontractors capable of providing goods or services

required by the contract, the Bidder must write “no participation” on the VBE Commitment Form.

Where a Bidder has failed to meet the VBE participation goal, the Administrator shall require the

Contractor to submit a Veteran’s Business Enterprise Good Faith Efforts Documentation Request

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Form and provide additional documentation of its good faith efforts in attempting to fulfill the

VBE goal.

The Contractor must use the District’s online compliance monitoring system administered by the

Diversity Section for payment and reporting purposes, in order to fulfill the Affirmative Action

Program requirements.

The MBE/WBE Utilization Plan MUST be signed by the bidder, even if the bidder requests a

waiver and/or offers itself to meet any of the Affirmative Action Ordinance Revised Appendix D

goals. If the bidder offers itself to satisfy any of the Affirmative Action Ordinance Revised

Appendix D goals, then its name shall be shown in the appropriate space(s) on the MBE/WBE

Utilization Plan.

Where a Bidder is a business owned and controlled by a minority woman (M/WBE), or where the

Bidder utilizes an M/WBE in a joint venture or as a subcontractor, the Bidder may count the

M/WBE participation toward the achievement of either its MBE or WBE goal, but not both.

Each Bidder’s Utilization Plan must commit to MBE and/or WBE participation equal to or greater

than the associated goals unless the Bidder indicates a partial or total waiver request on page UP5.

If a waiver from Appendix D requirements is sought, the Bidder will be required to provide

documentation of “Good Faith Efforts” to meet the Appendix D utilization goals, as defined in

Section 15(e) of the Affirmative Action Ordinance Revised Appendix D. Subsequent to the bid

opening, and if it is determined by the Diversity Administrator that a Contractor’s Information

Form is required from the apparent low Bidder, the Bidder must complete and submit the form

with (3) calendar days of receiving the written request.

The work under this Contract is classified as “General and Heavy Construction” for the MBE,

WBE and VBE utilization goals contained in the Affirmative Action Ordinance Revised Appendix

D and Appendix V. The associated goals are 20% Minority-owned Business Enterprises (MBE),

10% Women-owned Business Enterprises (WBE), and 3% Veteran-owned Business Enterprises

(VBE). Should you have any questions, please contact the Diversity Office at 312-751-4035.

Any contract or contracts awarded under this invitation for bids are expected to be funded in part

by a loan from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA). Neither the State of Illinois

nor any of its departments, agencies, or employees is or will be a party to this invitation for bids

or any resulting contract. The procurement will be subject to regulations contained in the

Procedures for Issuing Loans from the Water Pollution Control Loan Program (35 IAC Part 365),

the Davis-Bacon Act (40 USC 276a through 276a-5) as defined by the United States Department

of Labor, the Employment of Illinois Workers on Public Works Act (30 ILCS 570), Illinois Works

Jobs Program Act (30 ILCS 559/20-1), and the federal “Build America, Buy America Act”

requirements contained in the Infrastructure and Investment and Jobs Act, Pub. L. No. 117-58.

This procurement is also subject to the loan recipient’s policy regarding the increased use of

disadvantaged business enterprises. The loan recipient’s policy requires all bidders to undertake

specified affirmative efforts at least sixteen (16) days prior to bid opening. The policy is contained

in the specifications. The requirements for bidders and contractors under this order are explained

in 41 CFR 60-4.

Federal Regulations regarding labor standards, the Copeland Anti-Kickback Act, equal

employment opportunity and access to work shall be in effect. These regulations appear in

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