Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-19
SEALED PROPOSALS
| OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF STREET
| AND WATER COMMISSIONERS
OF THE CITY OF NEWARK
| CITY HALL.


OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF STREET
AND WATER COMMISSIONERS
OF THE CITY OF NEWARK
CITY HALL.
Sealed proposals will be received at this
office from 3:i5 to $3.50 O'Clock .. m q
and opened at the last named hour, at .
public meeting u the board 20 be held Al
said time and place, for the grading. carbins
NORTH EIGHTH STREET.
from Bloomfield avenue TO Elwood avenue.
the roadway to be narrowed to Bly, feet be-
tween curbs.
The following is about the amount OF ths
work to be done. and the materials to be
ton of said work. and upon which bids via
be compared:
square yards of brick pavement On six t5)
inch concrete foundation:
Three thousand six hundred (a.6Oo) cubic
yard Of embankment. three thousand t2.0o0j
cubic yards Oh which is excavation on the
street: embsnkment only 10 be paid for;
Four thousand eight hundred t4.SOu) linea1
feet OF 20 by inch four cut curb set IN
Five hundred and fifty $3.50 lineai feet q
old curb. four cut and reset In concrete;
Four thousand $4,000 sbuare feet Of flag
ging. feet wide;
Cs.sso) square feet of artificial stone walk,
Standard prices will be paid for the fOl-
Fifteen t15) noiseless manhole covers;
Three hundred and twenty t3z0) lineai
fee1 Of new header curb. set in concrete;
Ten C10) sets Of 20 by inch four ext
curb. set in concrete;
sixteen hundred d.sOo) square feet of OLD
-Four % basins with connections conf
THE CONTRACT FOR THE ABOVE
| WORK. IF AWARDED. SHALL BE
AWARDED PROFESSIONALLY BY THE
BfLITY UPoN THE CITY UNLESS sUolz
| ANARp SHALL SUBSEQUENTLY HI
FINALLY MADE By THE BOARD PRE-
ERTY BENEFITED ESPECIALLY 81
THE PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS IS
on THE SAME HELD. AFTER WHICH
THE BOARD MAY OR MAY NOT
| FINALLY AWARD THE CONTRACT N
| Bidders are not to state any price for ma
tsrials and work for which there is fixed
amount provided for in the specifications.
! Each proposal must be enclosed in sealed
envelope. properly Endorsed with the name
OF the bidder and Of the Improvement. ars
Commissioner OF the City of Newark
/ Bidders will state their prices In writing
Bidders must specify in their proposals
that. should the above work De awaiasd 2
+ and complete the same within one hundred
4 600 consecutive working days.
The plans and specifications OF the wefk
can be examined at the office OF the cilies
I engineer Of the Board of Street and Water
+ Commissioners at the City Hall said pre-
T
+ writing, Of two sureties. or a surety coZ-
pany qualified to do business In New jersey.
who shall. at the time Of putting IN such
/ proposals, qualify to their responsibility
II, the amount of such proposal and bind
themselves that, II the contract be awarded
to the person or persons ma king the IRA
posal they win. upon Its being awarded.
become his or their sureties for the faithful
+ performance OF said work: ana that. II the
person or persons omit or refuse to execufe
such contract they will pay to the city
/ of Newark any difference between the suFna
to which he or they would have been ga
chat which the city Of Newark may ~
Obliged TO pay the person or persons %
+ whom such contract shall he executed
The Board OF Street and Water Commits
sioners Of the City OF Newark reserve e
+ themselves tho right 10 accept or reject ans
4 or all proposals for the above work. as they
may deem best for the interest Of the CITY
f Bidders and suretieE are hereby nottns1
that under the provisions Of the sevensr
section Of the law creating the Board o.
Street aud Water Commissioners, approves
March 2Sth, 1881, that the bond or boisdr
TO be given for the faithful execution ana
performance of said public work shall hres
be approved as TO s1fhciency py the boaro
and as to form by the counsel OF the board
and no contract shall be binding on the city
or become effective or operative until such
bond Is so approved and the president O
the board shall have power to examtrs
the proposed bondsmen under oath. II hs
! shall SO desire or shall be SO instructed nF
/ the board but the board will not be bouus
I BY any statement that may be made by sues
proposed bondsmen. but shall have full
power and absolute discretion in the whole
/ matter and this provision shall be referred
t. in any advertisement inviting bids fez
| any such public work.
4 BY direction OF the Board Of Street ane
. Water Commissioners OF the City OF Newark
NOR RIS r. SHERRERD.
! my7-12t Chief Engineer