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THE ADVOCATE
BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA
To be published three times Legal:
November 1st, November 8th and
November 15th, 2024
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
The City of Baton Rouge and Parish of East Baton Rouge (City-Parish) will receive electronic or
paper bids for the construction of the following project:
RIVER CENTER EXHIBITION HALL ELECTRICAL FEEDER
275 S. RIVER RD., BATON ROUGE, LA 70802
CITY PARISH PROJECT NO. 21-ASC-CP-1568
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Overhead re-routing of conductors from existing transformer at the River Center
Exhibition Hall.
Bid Package with Plans and Specifications may be obtained online at www.centralauctionhouse.com.
Alternately, paper copies may be obtained through most reprographic vendors for their printing cost. All
Bids shall be made on the Bid Package Forms.
Statutory Forms (Bid Package Part 1-A) shall be submitted to the Purchasing Division prior to Bid Opening:
Certification Regarding Debarment, Suspension and Other Responsibility Matters
Attestation of No Past Criminal Convictions
Legal Citizen Affidavit
Non-Collusion & Non-Solicitation Affidavit
Bid Forms (Bid Package Part 1) submitted shall be accompanied by a Certified Check or Cashier's Check
payable to the Parish of East Baton Rouge, or a satisfactory Bid Bond executed by the Bidder and an
acceptable surety, in an amount equal to five percent (5%) of the total bid.
Contractors must hold an active license issued by the State of Louisiana Licensing Board for Contractors
in the classification of Electrical, and must show their license number on the face of the bid envelope. All
Contractors bidding on this work shall comply with all provisions of the State Licensing Law for
Contractors, La RS 37:2150-2163 for all public contracts. It shall also be the responsibility of the General
Contractor to assure that all subcontractors comply with this law.
Bids will be received online through www.centralauctionhouse.com or in an envelope delivered to the
Purchasing Division 8th Floor Room 826 City Hall 222 St Louis St Baton Rouge, LA 70802 until the BID
OPENING 2:00 PM Local Time, Tuesday, December 10th, 2024 with no exceptions.
At Bid Opening in Purchasing Division Room 826 City Hall, electronic Bids and Bid Bonds will be
downloaded, then all electronic and paper Bids will be publicly read aloud. Bidders and/or their
authorized representatives are invited. Bid results can also be viewed at the link:
http://city.brla.gov/dept/purchase/bidresults.asp
The contract shall be awarded to the lowest responsible and responsive bidder. In accordance with
Louisiana Revised Statute (La RS) 38:2214 B, the City-Parish reserves the right to reject any and all bids
exceeding the preconstruction cost estimate, or for just cause. In accordance with La RS 38:2212 B (1),
the provisions and requirements stated in the Bid Package and this advertisement shall not be waived by
any entity. Bids shall be firm for a period of 45 days from the date of the Bid Opening, except as allowed
per La RS 38:2214 C.
For this project the EBR Parish Purchasing office has directed a review of the scope of work and has
established a minimum EBE goal of 7% of the contract amount. All Bidders shall achieve this goal or
demonstrate good faith efforts to achieve the goal. Good faith efforts include meeting this EBE goal or
providing documentation demonstrating that the Bidder made sufficient good faith efforts in attempting
to meet this goal. Only EBE firms certified under the Parish SEDBE Certification Program at the time of
submittal of the bid will count toward this EBE goal. To be considered responsive, the apparent low
bidder must submit EBE Forms 1, 1A, and 2, and Letters of EBE Certification, as appropriate within 10
days after bid opening.
A non-mandatory pre-bid conference will be held at 1:00 PM on Tuesday, November 12th, at River Center
Exhibition Hall, 275 S. River Rd., Baton Rouge, LA 70802. All parties interested in this project are invited
to attend this conference.
For additional information regarding the construction documents, please contact Bid related: Purchasing
Division (225) 389-3259; General Documents related: Rob Gray, AIA, LEED BD+C, (225) 389-4694 or
[email protected] and Construction Documents related: Landon Burns, Thompson Luke & Associates, LLC,
(225) 293-9474 or [email protected].