New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-21
PROPOSALS.
NAVY DEPARTMENT,
Bureau of Yards and Docks,
Washington. ID. c.. Nav %. 1871.

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Washington. D. c.. May %, l87l.>
CEALED PROPOSALS TO FURNISH MATERIALS
y for the several navy yards for the fiscal year
ending June 30. 1872 will be received at this Bu,
reau until ten o'clock A. NJ. of the TWENTIETH
OF JUNE next, at which time the proposals will
be opened .-
Printed schedules, in which the materials and
articles required are embraced with form of offer
and guarantee, will be furnished on application
and sent by mail il requested, to persons desr-
ing to offer to contract for any all OF the classes
named therein, by the commandments Of the sew
era navy yards or the classes for the yards under
their command or by the paymaster nearest
thereto, or by the Bureau for any all OF the
yards.
offers, bid will be received which contains
classes for more than yard in one envelope,
nor any bid which is net perfect and complete in
itself according to the forms of offer and guaranty,
and each individual OF a firm must sign the bid
and contract.
Bidders are referred to the printed instructions,
which will be furnished with the schedules. and
they are hereby cautioned. and particularly mott
fed that their offers should be made on the printed
form prescribed by the Bureau, and be mailed in
time to reach their destination before the time
pires for receiving them.
Ne bid will be considered which shall be received
after the period stated, and no allowance will be
made for failures of the mail
The proposal must be accompanied by a certif-
cate from the Collector of Internal Revenue for the
district in which the bidder resides, that he has
license deal i'll the articles for which he proposes
will be received only from parties who are bona de
dealers in, or manufacturers of, the articles they
offer to furnish. The guarantors must be certified
by the Assessor of Internal Revenue for the district
in which they reside.
The contract will be awarded to the person who
makes the lowest bid ana gives the guarantee re-
serving the right to reject the lowest bid, or any
which it may deem exorbitant.
Suretes in the full amount will be required to
sign the contract. and their responsibility must be
certified to the satisfaction of the Navy Depart
ment and the bidder must state distinctly at what
paymasters office he desires all his bills TO be
paid.
To guard against offers being opened before the
time appointed, bidders are requested 10 use the
printed enve opes. furnished by the bureau, in
dOrsed thus: Proposals for classes Nos. name
the casses for the Navy Yard at (name the Yard"
ITO the Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks,
Navy Department Washington d. c."
Tie schedule will state the tim within which
articles will be required to be delivered. If any
articles named in the schedules which are t
known to be in common and general use, the bid
ders will ascertain promptly whether suen afticles
tanned the fact must be reported to the bureau at
| once before bids shall be received.
All offers not made in strict conformity with the
instructions accompanying the schedules will, at
| the option of the bureau, be rejected.
be Withheld from the amount Of the bills until the
| contracts shall have been completed, and eighty
per centum of the amount of each bill appro we'd in
| tripcate by the commandment of the respective
Yards will be paid by the paymaster of the station
designated in the contract within ten days after
the warrant for the same shall have been passed by
| the Secretary of the Treasury.
The classes of this bureau are numbered and
| designated as follows
Glass No. l, Bricks; No. 2, Stone; No. 8, Yellow
Pine Timber No. 4, Yellow Pine Lumber; No. s. Oak
| and Hard Wood No. g. White Pine, Spruce, Juniper
Cement; No. g. Gravel and Sand; No 81, Moulding
and Firesand and Fireclay; No. 10. Slate; No. II
Iron, Iron Spikes and Nails; No. IL Steel; No 10
| No. 10, Ship Chandery; No. H. Hardware; No. ID
| Stationery; No. 20, Hay and Straw; No FL, Proven
f Hose No. - sper% and o
Iron Work, Piping, etc.. No. rs, Augers No: u; An
thracite Coal No. 20, Bitumineus Cumberland
| Coal No. 80, Semi. BituminOus Br0adtop Coal; No
81, Copper and Composition Nails; No. g. Machinery
Class "A" Excavation.
| NAVAL ASYLUM.
Class No. |, Clothing; No, o., Hats. Boots Shoes
ETC.. No. g. Provisions; No. 4. Groceries; No ;, Dry
| Goods: No g. Bread etc; No. Tobacco; No. 8
Coal No: 9, Paints, Oils, Glass etc; No Il Lumber
| No. IL, Fire Wood; No. ID, Proyender; No. IA, Mis-
| ceaneous; No. IS, Hardware; No. Is, Stationery.
| The following are the classes, by their number:
and letters, required at the respective navy yards
| and naval asylums
| KTTTERY. MAINE.
Nos l. $3.50 10, IL, IL. A. Is, l6, II, 49, 90, 81
p, %, n, Is 81, %, 3D.
CHARLEsTowN, MASSACHUSETTS,.
Nos ,56,7,s,9 9, TO- IL, H. IA, Is, l6, H. 10, 20
81, u, %, "a, Is, a. 20. 80.
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.
20, 81, %, g. a. IS, 26, 81, go 81, 81.
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.
Nos. 6, IL, IS l6, II, 10, 20, 81, %, p, 80.
| NAVAL ASYLUM, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYL
| WANNA.
Nos. l., 2, 3, Sc, So II, IL, 10, IA, Is, Is.
WASHINGTON. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
Nos. I2,45,679 II, Il, 13, 15 Is, H. 49, 20, 81 %
| NORFOLK, VIRGINIA.
Nos. 2 IL, IA, Is, IT, II, 10, 20, D. q
| "a, Is, 26, 81, 80.
PENSACOLA, FLORIDA.
Nos s. IL, H. a. Is, 16, IT, 10, 20, 81 q 49, a
| MARE ISLAND, CALIFORNIA.
Nos. l. 2, g. s. 8, 10, H. H. A. Is, l6, II, Il
| o. %, "a, 25 80 "a" DANIEL AMMEN,
| mv28 law4w Chief of Bureau.