Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-26
SEALED PROPOSALS.
OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF STREET
AND WATER COMMISSIONERS OF
THE CITY OF NEWARK.
InI

City Hall.
Newark, N. j., May %, 1914
Sealed proposals will be received at this
office from 3:15 to $3.50 o'clock p. m. of
Thursday the fourth day of June 1914,
public meeting of the board to be held at
said time and place, for the grading, curb
ing, tagging and paving of
LAKE STREET,
from Bloomfield to Elwood avenue
The following is about the amount of the
work to be done, and the materials to be
furnished in the construction and completion
of said work, and upon which bids will be
compared:
Eighteen thousand six hundred and fifty
1S,650) square yards of two and one-half
(2h( inch asphalt block pavement on a six
90 inch concrete foundation;
Six thousand eight hundred and ten
OSLO linea feet of Is by inch four cut
Two thousand and fifty q, o6O) lineal feet
of old curb, four cut and reset in concrete;
Two thousand three hundred and fifty
hundred and forty GAO cubic yards of
which is excavation the street; en-
only to be paid for hundred
twenty-five q6,325) square feet of artificial
stonewalk feet wide;
| (7,13O) square feet of tagging 8 feet wide;
Six hundred (6o0) square feet of flag
STANDARD prices will be paid for the fol-
Twenty-nine (2s) noiseless manhole
Two hundred (2OO) lineal feet of new
Six 90 sets of 1s by inch four cut cor
nc one n III Hundred and forty GAO square feet
of old bridging relaid;
six go basins with connections complete.
Two thousand (s,OOO) square feet of old
faE CONTRACT FOB THE ABOVE
MWEkDEp D. PRoVfsfoNALL9 14 BY THE
BOARD AMI. SHALL IMPOSE NO LA;
| AWARD SHALL SUBSEQUENTLY, BE
FINALLY MADE BY THE BOARD. PRE-
E IW|T a + BENEFfTED ESPECIALLY BY
THE PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS is
TO BE MADE AND PULLS HEARING
FINALLY AWARp THE r., G SSE4 ct N ~
| THE STATE LAWS OF 1895.
Bids for the above asphalt block pave
ment must include a price bid per square
| yard per year for maintenance and repair OF
| said pavement during an additional and
second period of five years and under a
| guarantee bond by surety company or q
bond with surety acceptable to the Board
of Street and Water Commissioners, which
| at any time before the expiration Of the
first five years guarantee.
! Bidders are not to state any price for ma
terials and work for which there Is fixed
amount provided for In the specifications.
/ Each proposal must be enclosed in a sealed
properly If f5s w5H 4se
| directed to the Board of Street and Water
Commissioners of the City OF Newark.
Bidders will state their prices in writing
as we'll as in figures.
Bidders must specify in their proposals
that should the above work be awarded
TO them they will bind themselves to finish
and complete the same within one hundred
and ten 110) consecutive working days.
The plans and specifications of the worl
can be examined at the office OF tho CHIEF
engineer of the Board of Street and Water
Commissioners at the City Hall. Said pro
posals to be accompanied by the consent, II
writing, of two sureties or surety com
pany qualified to do business in New Jersey
who shall at the time of putting in such
proposals, qualify to their responsibility
In the amount of such proposal, and bint
themselves that, II the contract be awarded
to the person or persons making the pro
posal they will. upon its being SO awarded
become his or their sureties for the faithful
performance of said work; and that, If thu
person OF persons omit or refuse to execute
such contract, they will pay to the city o
Newark any difference between the sums Il
which he or they would have been entitled
! upon completion of the contract and tina
| which the city of Newark may be obliget
TO pay the person persons by whom sucl
| contract shall be executed.
The Board of Street and Water Commits
| sioners of the City of Newark reserve L
| themselves the right to accept or reject an,
| or all proposals for the above work. as the
| may deem best for the interest Of the city.
bidders and sureties are hereby notifies
that under the provisions OF the seventh sec
ton Rf The law creating the Board OF Stree