Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-07-05
NOTICE To CONTRACTORS STREET
IMPROVEMENTS.

Office of the Board of Public Works, of the
City of Wausau, Wisconsin.
June l3. 1910
Sealed proposals will be received at this
off.ce until the 18th day of July, 1910, at two
O'Clock D. m. for furnishing all the material
and doing all the work necessary and required
TO improve Third street from ten feet north of
the south line of Forest street to the north
line OF Grant street by the requirement. OF the
same with creosoted wood blocks under a
the plan, profile, details and specifications
thereof on file in the office of the city clerk in
said city and there open for the inspection OF
bidders, and to which for further information
reference Is hereby made.
The whole work must be completed on or
before the first day of October, 1910, failing, in
which the contractor must pay the city of
Wausau as liquidated damages the sum OF
twenty-five ($25.00) dollars per day for each
and every days delay in completing said work
after the said first day of October, 1910
DIRECTIONS TO BIDDERS.
The board has caused to be prepared printed
copies of the specifications ana forms of con-
tract, proposal and bond. Such copies and
forms will be furnished to the persons desiring
TO bid on application therefor at the Office Of
the city clerk
The board will not consider any bid unless
accompanied by contract with sureties, as
prescribed in the form furnished, completed
with the exception OF the signatures on the
part OF the city.
Each contract must be accompanied by a
bond in a penal sum amounting to the contract
price and executed by the bidder and by
suretles, each of whom shall justify as to their
responsibility and by their several affidavits
show that they worth in the aggregate at
least the amount mentioned In the contract in
property not by law exempt from execution.
Surety companies duly licensed to do busi-
ness In the state of Wisconsin will be accepted
in lieu of personal SuretieS.
Each bid must contain prices for doing the
entire work on said street, as called for in the
plan. profile, details and specifications above
mentioned Prices should be stated In figures
and writing. Each bidder must file with the
board, at the time he submits his bid, samples
OF the creoSoted wood block which he proposes
to use, naming the brand Of such block.
The bidder must be prepared, at the time
the bids are opened to present satisfactory
evidence to the board that he is fully prepared
with the necessary capital, materials and
machinery to conduct the work to be con-
tracted for, and that he will provide the nee
essary plant and be ready to operate and lay
the pavement within thirty days after the
letting of the contract; that he will employ
skilled and experienced Workmen who have
been engaged in laying creosoted block pave
ments
Companies or firms bidding for the work
must state in the proposals the Individual
names and places of residence OF the persons
comprising, or officers OF such company or
firm. Bids falling to comply with the above
requirements will not be considered.
Bids for the work and materials will be can
vassed and considered in the aggregate based
on the estimated quantities named in the
specifications.
The contractor will be required to accept in
part payment for said work certificates against
the lots or parcels of real estate benefited by
said improvement or street improvement
bonds issued as required by Sections 1920 and
following. X. 5. Wis., or special Improvement
bonds against the same. or the proceeds OF the
sale of such bonds. Such certificates or bonds
TO be issued as provided By la%. The balance
OF the contract price viii be paid In city
orders.
The right to reject any and all bids is re-
served.
JOHN f. LAMONT.
Il. G. GOwEE,
O14-4W) HERMAN Z. MARQUARDT,
Board Of Public Works