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NEW! As of May 2023, Urbana now has an eProcurement Portal with OpenGov:  https://procurement.opengov.com/portal/urbanaillinois

The City of Urbana is transitioning to a new eProcurement system called OpenGov for publishing solicitations, and receiving vendor responses. Register your account early to begin receiving email notifications of bid/RFP postings.  Registration is 100% free for vendors!

1) Follow this link to begin the registration process: https://procurement.opengov.com/signup 

2) To access the Bid Documents and to subscribe to Urbana’s postings, visit this page: https://procurement.opengov.com/portal/urbanaillinois

3) You will need to sign in to OpenGov to access the bid materials.

 After you register, you can then subscribe to organizations from across the Country – not just Urbana!

 

The City of Urbana promotes Equal Opportunity in the procurement of services. Businesses owned by women, minorities, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to submit bids and/or proposals. More information about the City’s Equal Opportunity program, may be found on this page: http://www.urbanaillinois.us/government/mayors-office/human-relations/public-vendorscontractors

The City of Urbana will require vendors doing business with the City to complete the Vendor Representations and Additional Duties Form, which may be found here: http://www.urbanaillinois.us/Purchasing-Forms

All vendors doing business with the City are required to submit a completed W-9 once they are awarded a purchase or contract with the City. A W-9 document may be found here: http://www.urbanaillinois.us/Purchasing-Forms

Prevailing Wage Act

The Prevailing Wage Act (820 ILCS 130/1 et seq.) requires contractors or subcontractors to pay prevailing wages to all laborers, workers, and mechanics who perform work on a public works project. Further information, including the current prevailing wage rates, is available on the Illinois Department of Labor’s website at the following link: https://www2.illinois.gov/idol/Laws-Rules/CONMED/Pages/prevailing-wage-a...

 

Procurements before May 2023 are posted below. Procurements appear in the order they were posted, with the most recent appearing first. Closed procurements will also appear on this page with their title updated to indicate their closed status.

CLOSED: Request for Proposals (RFP) for Power7 Maintenance Entitlement

Date: 
November 17, 2017 - 2:00pm

CLOSED

The City of Urbana relies on an IBM Power7 server for many critical systems.  “Power7” is the model name of the City’s current IBM server, and more information can be found on it here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/POWER7/p7hdx/POWER7welcome.htm

The City would like to purchase three more years of software and hardware maintenance entitlement on our existing Power7 machines.   The City’s current IBM ServiceElite Entitlement Verification expires December 20, 2017.   The new term will last for three (3) years, beginning December 21, 2017.

The due date for Proposals is Friday, November 17, 2017 at 2:00 PM CT.

The City is asking anyone who wants to receive the RFP to register through this webform: http://www.urbanaillinois.us/node/6793   The purpose of collecting registration information is so that we can properly notify all recipients of addenda and answers to submitted questions.

 

Closed: Request for Proposals: 2018-19 Pavement Coring Services

Date: 
October 27, 2017 - 1:55pm

CLOSED

Pavement Coring will be received by the City of Urbana at the office of the Director of Public Works, 706 South Glover, Urbana, Illinois 61802 until 1:55 P.M. prevailing time on Friday, October 27, 2017 and publicly opened and read aloud at 2:00 P.M. at said office.

The Proposal Documents may be examined and copies obtained at the office of the Director of Public Works, 706 South Glover Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61802.

All consultants are required to provide experience statements or other prequalification documents to show satisfactory evidence of the consultant’s competency to perform the proposed work at the time the Contract Documents and Specifications are requested or picked up.

This contract will be awarded to the lowest responsive and responsible consultant considering conformity with the terms and conditions established by the City of Urbana in the proposal and contract documents. The City of Urbana reserves the right to determine responsibility at the time of award, to reject any or all proposals, to re-advertise the proposed improvement, and to waive technicalities.

Closed: Request for Proposals - Residential and Multifamily Recycling - RFP #1718-07

Date: 
November 3, 2017 - 2:00pm

CLOSED

The City of Urbana is seeking proposals, for the RESIDENTIAL AND MULTIFAMILY RECYCLING COLLECTION AND PROCESSING SERVICES  to determine the cost for providing professional services for both collection and processing of recyclable materials to residential and multifamily dwellings within the City.   

Scope of project may be examined, and copies obtained, at the Urbana Public Works Department, 706 South Glover Avenue, Urbana, Illinois, 61802. 

Sealed submissions must be received at the Urbana Public Works Department, 706 South Glover Avenue, Urbana, Illinois, 61802, by no later than 2:00 p.m. Central Time on November 3, 2017.

 

DATED this 9th day of October, 2017

William R. Gray
Director of Public Works
217-384-2342
706 S. Glover St
Urbana, IL 61802

Closed: Request for Bids: Vine Street Resurfacing Project

Date: 
September 15, 2017 - 1:55pm

CLOSED

Sealed BIDS for the construction of the Vine Street Resurfacing Project (City Section 17-00588-00-RS) including: hot-mix asphalt mainline; hot-mix asphalt surface removal; pavement patching; curb and gutter removal and replacement; sidewalk curb ramp removal and replacement; and other incidental work will be received by the City of Urbana at the office of the Director of Public Works, 706 Glover Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61802 until 1:55 p.m. prevailing time on Friday, September 15th, 2017 and publicly opened and read aloud at 2:00 p.m. at said office. 

The Bid Documents may be examined and copies obtained at the office of the Director of Public Works, 706 Glover Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61802.

Bid details are listed in the file below. 

 

Closed: Request for Bids: Green Street Sanitary Sewer Extension

Date: 
September 12, 2017 - 2:55pm

CLOSED

The Bid Documents may be examined and copies obtained at the office of the Director of Public Works, 706 South Glover Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61802.

All bidders are required to provide current financial and experience statements or other prequalification documents to show satisfactory evidence of the bidder’s competency to perform the proposed work at the time the Contract Documents and Specifications are requested or picked up.

Each bid shall be accompanied by a certified check, bank draft, bank cashier's check or bid bond acceptable to the Owner in an amount not less than five percent (5%) of the amount bid, payable without condition to the Owner as a guaranty that the Bidder, if awarded the Contract, will promptly execute the Agreement in accordance with the Proposal and the other Contract Document, and will furnish good and sufficient bond for the faithful performance of the work.