FLOOD05481

• County: Alamosa
• Community: Alamosa County
• Stream Name: Rio Grande River
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Title: Contract Documents for Rio Grande Levee Improvements, Phase II
• Date: 6/1/1987
• Prepared For: Alamosa County
• Prepared By: Muller Engineering Company, Inc.
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Project

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11. TIME FOR RECEIVING BIDS

a. Bids received prior to the advertised hour of opening will be
securely kept sealed. The officer whose duty it is to open them will decide
when the specified time has arrived, and no Bid received thereafter will be
considered; except that when a Bid arrives by mail after the time fixed for
opening, but before the reading of all other Bids is completed, and it is
shown to the satisfaction of the Local Public Agency that the non-arrival time
was due solely to delay in the mails for which the Bidder is not responsible,
such Bid will be received and considered.

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b. Bidders are cautioned that, while telegraphic modifications of Bids
may be received as provided above, such modifications, if not explicit and if
in any sense subject to misinterpretation, shall make the Bid so modified or
amended, subject to rejection.

12. OPENING OF BIDS

At the time and place fixed for the opening of Bids, the Local Public
Agency wi 11 cause to be opened and pub 1 i cly read aloud every Bi d recei ved
within the time set for receiving Bids, irrespective of any irregularities
therein. Bidders and other persons properly interested may be present, in
person or by representative.

13. WITHDRAWAL OF BIDS

Bids may be withdrawn on written or telegraphic request dispatched by the
Bidder in time for delivery in the normal course of business to the time fixed
for opening; provided, that written confirmation of any telegraphic withdrawal
over the signature of the Bidder is placed in the mail and postmarked prior to
the time set for Bid oepning. The Bid guaranty of any Bidder withdrawing his
Bid in accordance with the foregoing conditions will be returned promptly.

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14. AWARD OF CONTRACT: REJECTION OF BIDS

a. The Contract will be awarded to the responsible Bidder submitting the
lowest Bid complying with the conditions of the Invitation for Bids. The
Bidder to whom the award is made will be notified at the earliest possible
date. The Local Public Agency, however, reserves the right to reject any and
all bids and to waive any informality in Bids received whenever such rejection
or waiver is in its interest.

b. The Local Public Agency reserves the right to consider as unqualified
to do the work of general construction any Bidder who does not habitually per-
form with his forces the major portions of the work involved in construction
of the Improvements embraced in this Contract.

15. EXECUTION OF AGREEMENT: PERFORMANCE AND PAYMENT BONDS

Sections 38-26-105 and 38-26-106, C.R.S. 1973, as amended, shall apply to
all grants that require the contracting (or subcontrcting) for construction or

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