The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-09

INVITATION FOR BIDS. U. s.
 Department of Agriculture, Bureau
 of Public Roads, Juneau, Alaska, 1 August 8, 1892. SEALED BIDS, sub
 ject to the conditions contained
 herein, will be received until goo
 a. m., August IT, 1882, and then
 publicly opened, for furnishing all labor and materials and performing
 all work for reconstructing and inn
 proving three trestles for overhead
 tramway and Hume crossings oil
 the Glacier Highway, Juneau Thane
 Section, National Forest Road Pro- ject, located adjacent to the Ton
 gass National Forest, First Judicial
 Division, Territory of Alaska. The
 length of the project to be recon
 structed and improved is approxi-
 mately 0.294 mile and the principal
 items of work are approximately as follows: Unclassified Excavation 800 Icubic yards, Structure Excavation
 195 cubic yards, Untreated Timber
 250M. it. B.M, Class B Concrete
 $50 cubic yards, Structural Steel
 50,500 lbs. Removal of Old Trestle lump sum. The contract form and
 the plans, specifications, special provisions and estimate of quanti-
 ties may be examined and the
 standard questionnaires and finan-
 cial statement for bidders secured
 by the prospective bidders at the
 following addresses: U. s. Bureau
 of Public Roads, Federal & Terr
 Bldg, Juneau Alaska; U. s. For
 est Service, Commercial Bldg, Ket-
 chikan, Alaska. Each bidder must
 submit with his bid, or previously,
 an attested statement of his busi-
 ness and technical organization (of
 the bidder) on forms to be supplied T by the District Engineer, which is
 available for the con te m plated
 work, including his financial re- sources, his highway construction experience and other construction
 experience, compared with the pro- ject bid upon. The United States expressly reserves the right to re- ject any bid in which the facts | as to business and technical or ganization, financial resources or lconstruction experience, compared | with the project bid upon, justify | such rejection. The contractor will be required to state in his bid the minimum rate of wage per day to be paid common labor. The atten- | ton of the bidder is directed to the | special provisions covering sublet- | ting or assigning of the contract | Where copies of plans are request I ed, deposit of 5000 will be re- quired to insure their return. If | within fifteen Q5) days after open ! ing bids plans are not returned, the deposit will be forfeited to the | Government. Guarantee will be re- quired with each bid as follows:
 Five (5Te) per cent of the amount | of the bid. Performance bond will
 be required as follows: In amount | of 1004o of the total contract price. Performance will begin within ten
 t1O) calendar days after date of | notice to proceed and will be com-
 pleted within sixty (60) calendar days from that date. Liquidated | damages for delay will be the amount stated in the special pro- visions for each calendar day of | delay until the work is completed or accepted. Partial payments will | be made on work and material de- | livered if such work and material
 meet the approval of the contract ling officer Article on patents will | be made part of the contract. Bids must be submitted upon the I Standard Government Form of Bid | and the successful bidder will be required to execute the Standard Government Form of Contract for FConstruction. The right is reserved, as the interest of the Government | may require, to reject any and all bids, to waive any informality in bids received, and to accept or re- | ject any items of any bid, unless lsuch bid is qualified by specific | limitation. Envelopes containing bids must be sealed, marked, and | as follows: Bid for Road Improve ment, Glacier Highway, Juneau
 Thane Trestles. To be opened |. August TT, 1892, at g o'clock a. m, Federal and Ter. Bldg, Juneau, Alaska. M. D. Williams, District |