Battery Pringle Reventment Renovation Project

THE CHARLESTON MUSEUM

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

BATTERY PRINGLE REVETMENT RENOVATION PROJECT

THE DILL PROPERTY,

JAMES ISLAND, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA

Sealed proposals for the Battery Pringle Revetment Renovation Project will be received by the Charleston Museum in their office at 360 Meeting Street, Charleston, SC, until 2:00 P.M. local time on Thursday, July 30, 2020, and at that place and time will be publicly opened and read aloud.

The Work shall include providing all labor and materials to repair the existing rip rap revetment. Activities in navigable waters of the United States include discharging approximately 700 combined tons of SCDOT Class A, C and D granite rip rap materials placed along approximately 310 linear feet of the eastern bank of the Stono River to renovate and restore the existing rip rap revetment. Construction access to the Project Site shall be by marine barge only for the delivery of all materials and mobilization of all necessary construction equipment. The Project involves impacts to not more than 0.09 acre of Waters of the United States. The Project is located on the Stono River at the southwest corner of the Dill Property owned by the Charleston Museum on James Island, Charleston County, South Carolina (Latitude: 32.7137°, Longitude -79.9855°).

A Mandatory Pre-bid Conference will be held on Tuesday, July 21, 2020, at 2:00 P.M. local time at the Project Site located on the Charleston Museum’s Dill Property at 1163 Riverland Drive, James Island, Charleston, SC. Only attendees having legal authority to represent prospective bidders shall constitute compliance with this mandatory attendance requirement.

The Contract Documents may be examined at the following locations:

Owner Engineer

The Charleston Museum G. Robert George & Associates, Inc.

360 Meeting Street 2411 Savannah Highway

Charleston, South Carolina 29403 Charleston, South Carolina 29414

Copies of the Contract Documents may be obtained starting Monday, June 29, 2020, from the office of the Engineer. A non-refundable fee of $100.00 per set payable by check or money order to the Engineer shall be required to obtain bid documents.

This Project will be funded in part by a Hurricane’s Harvey, Irma, and Maria Emergency Supplemental Historic Preservation Fund Grant from the South Carolina Department of Archives and History (SCDAH). Bidders must comply with all applicable State and Federal requirements identified in the bid documents. The Project shall also include compliance with the following requirements:

David-Bacon Act contained in 29 CFR parts 1, 3 and 5.

American Iron and Steel provisions of the CAA 2014 Section 436.

Title VI of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 , Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 , and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975 , as amended, prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race color, national origin, disability or age in programs assisted by the U.S. Department of the Interior.

Debarment Certification , 43 CFR, Part 12, Section 12.510 and state that neither it nor its principals is presently disbarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, declared ineligible, or voluntarily excluded from participation in this transaction by any Federal department or agency.

Copeland “Anti-Kickback” Act (18 U.S.C. 874) as supplemented in Department of Labor Regulations (29 CFR Part 3). This act provides that each contractor or subgrantee shall be prohibited from inducing, by any means, any person employed in the construction, completion, or repair of public work, to give up any part of the compensation to which he is otherwise entitled.

All questions regarding this Project shall be submitted in writing to G. Robert George & Associates, Inc., 2411 Savannah Highway, Charleston, SC 29414, via fax at 843-571-0276, or via e-mail at bobgeorgegrga@comcast.net . Questions must include the Project name in the subject heading. No response will be given to questions received less than seven (7) days before the bid date.

Each proposal must be accompanied by a bid bond or certified check payable to the Charleston Museum in the amount of five percent (5%) of the total bid price. If, upon acceptance of the bid, a Bidder fails to enter into a Contract with the Charleston Museum, the bid security shall be forfeited to and become the property of the Charleston Museum.

No bidder may withdraw their bid within ninety (90) days after the date of the bid opening. The successful bidder must furnish a separate one hundred percent (100%) Performance and Payment Bonds issued by a surety company satisfactory to the Charleston Museum. The successful bidder must also provide proof of fire, extended coverage, vandalism and malicious mischief insurance equal to 200% of the actual Bid Value of the Project during construction.

Proposals may be delivered in person to the Charleston Museum’s office at 360 Meeting Street, Charleston, SC 29403 or mailed to the Charleston Museum at the address indicated above. It is the Bidder's responsibility to deliver the proposal to the specified location prior to the time for the close of acceptance of the proposal. The Charleston Museum assumes no responsibility for submittals received after the advertised deadline or at any office or location other than that specified herein, whether due to mail delays, courier mistake, mishandling or any other reason. If the proposal is delivered by other than hand delivery, it is recommended that the Bidder verify delivery. The Museum will make no reimbursement for any costs incurred prior to a formal notice to proceed should an award of contract result from this solicitation.

The Charleston Museum reserves the right to reject any and all responses and to waive technicalities as deemed to be in the best interest of the Museum or reject any or all bids. The Charleston Museum reserves the right to request additional information from bidders as deemed necessary by the Museum to analyze bidder qualifications. Bidders are required to certify, under penalty of perjury, that bids have been prepared without collusion with other bidders, subcontractors, suppliers, etc. This certification is included with the Bid Proposal, which each Bidder must sign in the space provided.