Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-18
SEALED PROPOSALS
OFFICE Oh THE BOARD OF STREET
AND WATER COMMISSIONERS OF
THE CITY OF NEWARK.
CRY HALL.

Newark. n. J.. June 18TH 1914.

Newark ~ j. June 18th. 1914.
Sealed proposals will be received at this
Office from $40 to $3.50 o'clock p. m. Of
Thursday. the second day of July, 1914,
and opened at the last named hour. at
public mseting of the board to be held at
said time and place for the repaving of
SOUTH ORANGE AVENUE.
from South Ninth street to about LOG feet
/ west of Grand avenue with the exception of
I eighteen rs inches on each side of the re
located street railways tracks: and from
about f56 feet west of Grand avenue to
about 100 feet cast of Halstead street,
strip between the southerly curb and eight
cen 1S) inches south of the relocated street
railway tracks the northerly portion of said
street being in East Orange) and from about
100 feet cast of Iialstead street TO the South
Orange village line, with the exception OF
eiglr&en dSl inches ON each side OF the re
i located street railway tracks; the street rail-
way tracks to be relocated in the centre OF
the avenue by the Public Service Railway
Company from South Twentieth street to the
/ South Orange village line.
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:
square yards of three 90 inch asphalt block
pavement on a six (6) inch concrete founda-
ton.
Seventeen thousand seven hundred d7.7Oo)
lineal feet of 20 by inch four cut granite
curb. set in concrete
Thirty-ive (sJD sets of 20 by inch four
cut granite corners #. radius, set in con-
crete.
4 Fifty 500 lineal feet Of 20 ny inch four
cut granite corners, It. radius, set In con-
Fifty 800 lineal feet of 20 by inch four
cut granite corners II #. radius. set in con-
Fifty $50 iinesl feet of 20 by 6 inch four
cut granite corners Is #. radius, set in con-
crete.
Fifty ,a0) lineal feet of 20 by inch four
cut granite corners 20 #. radius, set in con
Nine hundred 5000 lfneal feet of is by
inch granite header curb. set in concrete
Six thousand 6,OO0l square feet of arti-
fetal stone walk inches thick.
Standard prices will be paid for the fol-
Twenty-Five (25) basins with connections
complete.
Five 90 basins using old heads and stills.
Twenty-Five (25) noiseess manhole covers.
The maeadam of the old pavemen. on the
avenue to be the property Of the contractor,
and to be used by him In the new concrete
foundation allowance for same to be made
IN price bid per square yard for the new
pavement.
Bids for the above pavement must in
clude a price bid per square yard per year
for maintenance and. repair of said pave
ment during an additional and second period
OF five t5) years and under the guarantee
bond by a surety company or bond with
surety acceptable to the Board of Street and
Water Commissioners which may be re-
before the expiration of the first five years
guarantee.
THE CONTRACT FOR THE WORK ON
s 81 Nh, BE B1 AWARDED PRoyIsoNALLY;
LIABILITY UPON THE CITY UNLESS
SUCH AWARD SHALL SUBSEQUENTLY
BE FTNALhY ~ MApE RY THE ,t so PAaP
PROPOSED ANIEEMplMENTs Is 70 BE
THE SAME BE HELD. AFTER WHICH
Up KET THE G9NTFAGT j. i
THE STATE LAWS OF 1895.
Bidders are not to state any price for ma
terials and work for which there is a fixed
amount provided for in the specifications.
Each proposal must be enclosed in a reaied
Of the bidder Tp and Of the prov and
directed to the Board of Street and Water
Commissioners of the City of Newark.
Bidders will state their prices In writing
as well 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 eighty GS0) consecutive working days
can be examined at the office of the chief
engineer of the Boar of Street and Water
commissioner ISL at the city Hall said pro,
writing Of two sureties a surety COM
pany qualified to do business in New Jersey.
who shall at the time Of putting In such
proposals. qualify as to their respo- sibility
In the amount Of such proposal ana bind
themselves that, II the CONTRACT be AWARDED
to the person persons making the pro-
posal. they will. upon its being so awarded:
performance of said work. and that. If the
person or persons omit or refuse to execute
such contract, they will pay to the city OF
Newark any difference between the sums to
which he or they would have been entitled
upon completion of tire contract and that
which the city of Newark may be obliged
to pay the person or persons by whom such
contract shall be executed.
The Board of Street andaWater ComHpis
sioners of the City of Newark reserve to
themselves the right to accept reject any
or all proposals for the above worf, as they
may deem best for the interest of|the city
! Bidders and sureties hereby notified
that under the provisions of the seventh sec.
tion of the law creating the Board of Street
and Water Commissioners. approved March
2Sth, 1891 that the bond or bonds to be
given for the faithful execution and per-
Torrance of said public work shall first be
approved as to sufficiency by the board and
as TO form by the council of the board and
no contract shall be binding on the city or
become effective operative until such
bond is approved; and the president of
the board shall have power to examine tbs
proposed bondsmen, under oath, If he shall
SO desire or shall be SO instructed by the
board, but the board will not be bound by
any statement that may be made by such
proposed bondsmen. but shall have full
power and absolute discretion In the whole
matter, and this provision shall be referred
to in any advertisement inviting bids for any
such public work.
BY direction of the Board of Street and
Water Commissioners of the City of Newark.
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