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--- Document: Notice to Bidders - Village Drive Resurfacing ---
TOWNSHIP OF EAST BRUNSWICK
INVITATION TO BID
CONTRACT #2025-03
Village Drive Resurfacing
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that sealed proposals for the Village Drive Resurfacing
will be received by the Clerk of the Township of East Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey
at 11:00 AM prevailing time on April 9, 2025, 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 June 2, 2025, and the completion
date will be no later than August 22, 2025.
This project consists of the resurfacing of Village Drive, from the southerly
terminus at New Brunswick Avenue to the northerly terminus at Henley Drive.
The project entails the following general quantities: Excavation, Unclassified
(30 C.Y.), Dense Graded Aggregate Base Course, Variable Thickness (350
C.Y.), HMA Milling, 3" or less (20,900 S.Y), Hot Mix Asphalt Pavement
Repair (1,050 S.Y.), Tack Coat (2,090 Gallons), Hot Mix Asphalt 9.5M64
Surface Course (2,716 Tons), Reconstructed Inlet, Type B, New Casting (28
Units), Reconstructed Inlet, Type E, Using New Casting (3 Units), Bicycle
Safe Grates (7 Units), Curb Piece (6 Units), Concrete Sidewalk, 4" Thick (707
S.Y.), Detectable Warning Surface, (37 S.Y.), 6"x 9"x 20" Concrete Vertical
Curb (586 L.F.), Granite Block Curb (180 L.F.), Traffic Marking Lines, 4”
Wide (2,330 L.F.), Traffic Marking Lines, 6” Wide (1,540 L.F.), Traffic
Markings Symbols (1,890 S.F.), Regulatory and Warning Sign (100 S.F.),
Reset Manhole, Sanitary Sewer, New Casting (6 Units), Type “F” underdrain
(200 L.F.), Handhole (4 Units), Fertilizing, Topsoil, Seed & Mulch (1,555
S.Y.). Specific items of work under this contract necessary to complete the
project can be found in the Proposal Section of the Specifications.
Contract Documents and Plans for the proposed work prepared by Mark Kataryniak, P.E., may be
examined at the Department of Planning and Engineering, 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 to Township Clerk,
Township of East Brunswick, 1 Jean Walling Center, Civic Center, East Brunswick, NJ, 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 Mayor and Township Council of the Township of East Brunswick.
Tamar Lawful, RMC/CMR
Municipal Clerk
TOWNSHIP OF EAST BRUNSWICK