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--- Document: Notice to Bidders - 2025 Pavement Management Program - Phase I ---
TOWNSHIP OF EAST BRUNSWICK
INVITATION TO BID
CONTRACT # 2024-08
2025 PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
PHASE – I
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that sealed proposals for the 2025 Pavement Management
Program Phase – I will be received by the Clerk of the Township of East Brunswick, Middlesex County,
New Jersey at 10:00 AM prevailing time on October 23, 2024, in the Large Conference Room located at
the Municipal Building, 1 Jean Walling Civic Center, East Brunswick, New Jersey.
The start date for construction of this project will be no later than March 3, 2025, and the completion date
will be no later than August 29, 2025.
This project consists of the reconstruction/re-surfacing of fourteen (14) local streets.
The project entails the following general quantities:
Hot Mix Asphalt, Milling, 3" or less (39,375 S.Y), Roadway Excavation, Unclassified (435 C.Y.), Hot
Mix Asphalt, Surface Course, 9.5M64 (2,570 Tons), Hot Mix Asphalt, Surface Course, 12.5M64 (4,314
Tons), Hot Mix Asphalt, Base Course, 19M64 (555 Tons), D.G.A.B.C, 6" Thick (760 S.Y.), Reset
Manhole Casting (56 Units), 6"x 9"x 20" Concrete Vertical Curb (75 L.F.), Concrete Curb and Gutter
(400 L.F.), Granite Block Curb (1,090 L.F.), Concrete Sidewalk, 4" Thick (358 S.Y.), Detectable Warning
Surface (24 S.Y.), Hot Mix Asphalt Driveway, 5” Thick (380 S.Y.), Concrete Driveway, Reinforced, 6"
Thick (250 S.Y.), Underdrain Type “F” Modified (625 L.F.), Reconstructed Inlets, Type B, New Casting
(51 Units), Traffic Markings Lines, 4” Wide (300 L.F.), Traffic Markings Lines, 6” Wide (500 L.F.),
Paving Membrane, Petrotac 4591-18” Wide or Approved Equal (900 L.F.), Fertilizer, Topsoil, Seed &
Mulch (605 S.Y.).
Contract Documents and Plans for the proposed work prepared by Gregory Potkulski, P.E., may be
examined at the Department of Planning and Engineering, Public Works Complex, 4 Harts Lane, East
Brunswick, New Jersey and may be obtained by prospective bidders for a non-refundable fee of $15.00
during the hours of 7:30 A.M. and 3:30 P.M. until 48 hours prior to the time set for the bid opening.
Proposals must be made on the Standard Proposal Forms in the manner designated in Section 102 of the
Contract Documents, must be hand delivered or mailed by certified mail, must be enclosed in sealed
envelopes bearing the name and address of the Bidder and the name of the work on the outside, must be
addressed to the Township of East Brunswick, and must be accompanied by a statement of Consent of
Surety from a surety company authorized to do business in the State of New Jersey and acceptable to the
Township of East Brunswick.
Each bid must be accompanied by a certified check or cash in the amount of not less than ten (10%)
percent, except that the amount shall not exceed $20,000.00, of the bid payable without any conditional
endorsement as a guarantee that, in case the Contract is awarded to the bidder, he will, within 5 Municipal
Business Days thereafter, execute such Contract and furnish satisfactory performance bond. Upon failure
to do so he shall forfeit the deposit as liquidated damages and the acceptance of the bid will be contingent
upon the fulfillment of this requirement by the bidder. No interest shall be allowed upon any such certified
check or cash. A bid bond in the amount of ten (10%) percent of the bid may be substituted for certified
check or cash.
All bid security except the security of the three apparent lowest responsible bidders shall be returned,
unless otherwise requested by the bidder, within 10 days after the opening of the bids. Sundays and
holidays excepted, and the bids of such bidders shall be considered as withdrawn. Within 3 days, Sundays
and holidays excepted, after the awarding and signing of the contract and the approval of the contractor’s
performance bond, the bid security of the remaining unsuccessful bidders shall be returned to them.
Each bid must also be accompanied by a certificate from a bonding company licensed to do business in
the State of New Jersey and acceptable to the Township guaranteeing that, if the proposal of the bidder be
accepted, they will furnish the bond set forth in Subsection 103.05 of the General Conditions of the
Contract and the acceptance of the bid will be contingent upon the fulfillment of this requirement.
Bidders are required to comply with the requirements of N.J.S.A. 10:5-31 et seq and N.J.A.C. 17:27.
In accordance with N.J.S.A. 18A-27, as it may apply to this Contract, all bidders may be required to meet
with qualifications established with the Department of Treasury, Division of Building and Construction.
The successful bidder shall be required to comply with the provisions of the New Jersey Prevailing Wage
Act, N.J.S.A. 34:11-56.25 et seq.
A corporation submitting a bid, in response to this advertisement, shall accompany such bid with a
resolution authorizing its proper officers to submit such a bid and authorize said officers to execute a
contract in the event its bid is accepted.
The Township of East Brunswick reserves the right to reject any and/or all bids or to waive any formalities,
minor irregularities and immaterial variances in the form of bids if, in its opinion, it is in the best interest
of the Township to do so.
Attorneys in fact who sign contract bonds must file with each bond a certified and effectively dated copy
of their power of attorney.
BY ORDER of the Township Council of the Township of East Brunswick.
Tamar Lawful, RMC, CMR
Municipal Clerk
TOWNSHIP OF EAST BRUNSWICK