Milford chronicle., 1948-11-19
STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
DELAWARE CROSSING DIVISION
THE DELAWARE MEMORIAL
BRIDGE
NOTICE 10 BIDDERS
CONTRACT NO. 3

CONTRACT NO. 8
Approach Piers and Anchorage Blocks
Sealed proposals for construction Of
Approach Piers and Anchorage Blocks
Tor The Delaware Memorial Bridge"
over the Delaware River near Will
mlngton, Delaware, will be received
by the Delaware State Highway De-
parLment at the Office of the Director.
UelaWare Crossing Division, COntinen-
tai American Building, Wilmington.
Delaware, until IL o'clock noon, Eas-
tern Standard time, November go. 1913
Immediately thereafter proposals will
be publicly opened and read in the
GouncH Chamber, Wilmington City
The work will be let either Ca) under
a single contract for the entire work,
Contract No. 8; or (b) under four sep
arate contracts, Contract 3A for the
Approach River Piers, Contract No. 3B
for the West Approach Land Piers,
Contract No. &c for the East Approach
Land Piers and Contract No. Sd for
the Anchorage Blocks; or Co under
certain combinations of two or more of
these four contracts.
The entire work involves the follow
ing approximate quantities.:
CONTRACT NO. 8
THE DELAWARE MEMORIAL
BRIDGE
Concrete in Bases 10, 800 Gu. yds.
Concrete in Shafts 1900 Gu. yds.
Concrete in Anchorage
Blocks 1000 Gu. yds.
Granite Masonry 1870 GU f.
Reinforcing Steel 3,57O,OOO lbs.
Untreated Timber Piles 245, 900 lin #.
Treated Timber Piles 20, 200 lin. #.
Test Piles. 30
Test Pile Castings 4S0 lin. #.
Pile Load Tests 2
Pile Shoes 23OO
Sand Backftll 3,4OO Gu. yds.
Setting Anchorage
Metalwork 100000 lbs.
Work on Contracts Nos. 3A, 3B and
&c shall begin promptly after eXecu-
ton OF the contract and on Contract
No. BID promptly after the completion
Of the anchorage foundations. The var
ious parts shall be completed on or be-
fore the dates stipulated in the follow
ing schedules:
Contract No. "a Approach River
Piers December /. 194G
Contract No. 3B West Approach
Contract No. sc East Approach
Land Piers December 1, 194!
J Contract. No. Sd Anchorage Blocks
East Anchorage Block ID April ] = 1885,
Entire Contract June /, 1885,
Monthly payments will be made fol
ninety 600 per cent of the construction
completed each month.
Bidders must submit proposals upOI
forms provided by the Department.
Each proposal must be accompanied
by an acceptable surety bond or certi.
fled check to the amount of at least
ten (10) per cent of the total amount
of the proposal. Where proposals are
submitted for more than one contract
single bond or check based on the
largest amount of work which the Con-
tractor will accept will be sufficient.
N11o 0f hc. nVTr pr1 1a10 0rr
pOsals rejected within twenty (20) days
from the date of opening proposals
The right is reserved to reject any Ol
all bids.
The Plans and Specifications anC
other contract documents may be eX
amined at the office of the Director
! Delaware Crossing Division, and at th'
office Of the Engineers, Howard, Nee
dies, Tammen & BergendOff, 55 Libert!
/ Street, New York 5, N. Y. One com
plete set of the Plans and two copies
of the Specifications may be obtained
/ from the Engineers after October 2l
194S upon payment of $4,000. Any pros
pectiVe bidder who has made such
deposit may secure extra blueprin
copies of the Plans upon payment of s.
cents per drawing, and extra copies o
the Specifications upon payment o
$500 per copy.
All Plans and Specifications shall b.
returned to the Engineers, and on Sucl
| return $1,000 of the above payment viii
be refunded. No refund will be mad
out of payments for extra prints of tn
Plans. Full refund of deposit will b.
made out of payments for extra cOpie
of the Specifications. All such refund
will be made only upon return of tn
documents within 10 days after tn
opening of proposals.
STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
BY: +. V. DUPONT. Chairman
w. w Mack, Director
Delaware Crossing Division
Wilmington, Delaware
October IL. 1948. n5-n19-2