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COUNTY OF FRESNO COUNTY OF FRESNO REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL NUMBER: 910-4900 December 17, 2010 PURCHASING USE / PURCHASING USE ORG/Requisition: 8935/ 1321101107 JEB home/storage/public_html/st1/folder28/28733/910_4900_janitorial_serv IMPORTANT: SUBMIT PROPOSAL IN SEALED PACKAGE WITH PROPOSAL NUMBER, CLOSING DATE AND BUYER’S NAME MARKED CLEARLY ON THE OUTSIDE TO: COUNTY OF FRESNO, Purchasing nd 4525 EAST HAMILTON AVENUE, 2 Floor FRESNO, CA 93702-4599 CLOSING DATE OF BID WILL BE AT 2:00 P.M., ON JANUARY 25, 2011. PROPOSALS WILL BE CONSIDERED LATE WHEN THE OFFICIAL PURCHASING TIME CLOCK READS 2:00 P.M. Proposals will be opened and publicly read at that time. All proposal information will be available for review after contract award. Clarification of specifications is to be directed to: Ken Vozza, e-mail CountyPurchasing@co.fresno.ca.us, phone (559) 600-7110, FAX (559) 456-7831. GENERAL CONDITIONS: See “County Of Fresno Purchasing Standard Instructions And Conditions For Request For Proposals (RFP’S) and Requests for Quotations (RFQ’S)” attached. Check County of Fresno Purchasing’s Open Solicitations website at http://www2.co.fresno.ca.us/0440/Bidshome2.asp for RFQ/RFP documents and changes. BIDDER TO COMPLETE UNDERSIGNED AGREES TO FURNISH THE COMMODITY OR SERVICE STIPULATED IN THE ATTACHED PROPOSAL SCHEDULE AT THE PRICES AND TERMS STATED, SUBJECT TO THE “COUNTY OF FRESNO PURCHASING STANDARD INSTRUCTIONS AND CONDITIONS FOR REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP’S) AND REQUESTS FOR QUOTATIONS (RFQ’S)”ATTACHED. Except as noted on individual items, the following will apply to all items in the Proposal Schedule. 1. Complete delivery will be made within calendar days after receipt of Order. 2. A cash discount % days will apply. of COMPANY ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP CODE ( ) ( ) TELEPHONE NUMBER FACSIMILE NUMBER E-MAIL ADDRESS SIGNED BY PRINT NAME TITLE PD-040 (5/10) Proposal No. 910-4900 COUNTY OF FRESNO PURCHASING COUNTY OF FRESNO PURCHASING STANDARD INSTRUCTIONS AND CONDITIONS FOR REQUESTS FOR PROPOSALS (RFP'S) AND REQUESTS FOR QUOTATIONS (RFQ'S) Note: the reference to “bids” in the following paragraphs applies to RFP's and RFQ's GENERAL CONDITIONS By submitting a bid the bidder agrees to the following conditions. These conditions will apply to all subsequent purchases based on this bid. /home/storage/public_html/st1/folder28/28733/910_4900_janitorial_services.doc 1A PD-040 (5/10) Proposal No. 1. BID PREPARATION: G) Unless otherwise noted, discussions or E) Bidders are to bid what is A) All prices and prices shall be firm for information pertaining to specified or requested notations must be one hundred eighty the RFP/RFQ. Contact first. If unable to or typed or written in ink. (180) days after closing with any other County unwilling to, bidder may No erasures permitted. date of bid. representative, including bid alternative or option, Errors may be crossed 2. SUBMITTING BIDS: elected officials, for the indicating all advantages, out, initialed and purpose of discussing disadvantages and their corrections printed in A) Each bid must be this RFP/RFQ, its associated cost. ink by person signing submitted on forms content, or any other F) Public Contract Code bid. provided in a sealed issue concerning it, is Section 7028.15 envelope/package with prohibited unless B) Brand Names: Brand bid number and closing authorized by Where the State of names and numbers date and time on the Purchasing. Violation of California requires a when given are for outside of the this clause, by the Contractor’s license, it is a reference. Equal items envelope/package. vendor having misdemeanor for any will be considered, unauthorized contact person to submit a bid provided the offer B) Interpretation: Should (verbally or in writing) unless specifically clearly describes the any discrepancies or with such other County exempted. article and how it omissions be found in representatives, may differs from that the bid specifications or constitute grounds for 3. FAILURE TO BID: specified. In the doubt as to their rejection by Purchasing A) If not bidding, return bid absence of such meaning, the bidder of the vendor’s sheet and state reason for information it shall be shall notify the Buyer in quotation. no bid or your name may understood the writing at once. The be removed from mailing offering is exactly as County shall not be held The above stated responsible for verbal restriction on vendor list. specified. interpretations. contact with County 4. TAXES, CHARGES AND C) State brand or make Questions regarding the representatives shall EXTRAS: of each item. If bid must be received by apply until the County bidding on other than Purchasing at least five has awarded a purchase A) County of Fresno is specified, state make, (5) working days before order or contract to a subject to California sales model and brand being bid opening. All vendor or vendors, and/or use tax (8.975%). bid and attach addenda issued shall be except as follows. First, Please indicate as a supporting in writing, duly issued by in the event that a separate line item if literature/specification Purchasing and vendor initiates a formal applicable. s to the bid. incorporated into the protest against the B) DO NOT include Federal contract. RFP/RFQ, such vendor Excise Tax. County is D) Bid on each item may contact the separately. Prices C) ISSUING appropriate individual, or exempt under Registration should be stated in AGENT/AUTHORIZED individuals who are No. 94-73-03401-K. units specified herein. CONTACT: This managing that protest as C) County is exempt from All applicable charges RFP/RFQ has been outlined in the County’s Federal Transportation must be quoted; issued by County of established protest Tax. Exemption certificate charges on invoice not Fresno, Purchasing. procedures. All such is not required where quoted herein will be Purchasing shall be the contact must be in shipping papers show disallowed. vendor’s sole point of accordance with the consignee as County of E) Time of delivery is a contact with regard to sequence set forth Fresno. part of the the RFP/RFQ, its under the protest content, and all issues procedures. Second, in D) Charges for transportation, consideration and concerning it. containers, packing, etc. must be stated in the event a public will not be paid unless definite terms and All communication hearing is scheduled specified in bid. must be adhered to. regarding this RFP/RFQ before the Board of F.O.B. Point shall be shall be directed to an Supervisors to hear 5. W-9 – REQUEST FOR destination or freight authorized testimony prior to its TAXPAYER IDENTIFICATION charges must be representative of County approval of a purchase NUMBER AND stated. Purchasing. The specific order or contract, any CERTIFICATION: buyer managing this vendor may address the F) All bids must be dated RFP/RFQ is identified Board. Upon award of bid, the vendor and signed with the on the cover page, along shall submit to County firm’s name and by an D) Bids received after the Purchasing, a completed W-9 - authorized officer or with his or her telephone closing time will NOT be Request for Taxpayer employee. number, and he or she considered. Identification Number and should be the primary Certification if not already a point of contact for /home/storage/public_html/st1/folder28/28733/910_4900_janitorial_services.doc 1B PD-040 (5/10) Proposal No. current vendor with The confidentiality of awarded to the original of the Fresno County Local County of Fresno. This form information offered in a low bidder as Vendor Preference shall take is available from the IRS to bid. announced by the priority over this paragraph. complete on line at 7. LOCAL VENDORS: purchasing agent. 9. PATENT INDEMNITY: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs- B) Local Vendor Defined pdf/fw9.pdf. A) Local Vendor Preference The vendor shall hold the 6. AWARDS: (applicable to RFQ “Local Vendor” shall County, its officers, agents and Process only) mean any business employees, harmless from A) Subject to the local The following provisions which: liability of any nature or kind, preference provisions are applicable only to 1. Has its including costs and expenses, referenced in the County’s acquisition headquarters, for infringement or use of any Paragraph 7 below of materials, equipment distribution point or copyrighted or uncopyrighted and more thoroughly or supplies through the locally-owned composition, secret process, set forth in the RFQ process when the franchise located patented or unpatented General Requirements funding source does not in or having a invention, article or appliance section of this require an exemption to street address furnished or used in connection RFP/RFQ, award(s) the Local Vendor within the County with this bid. will be made to the Preference. for at least six (6) 10. SAMPLES: most responsive months responsible bidder. THE PROVISIONS OF immediately prior Samples, when required, must The evaluation will THIS PARAGRAPH to the issuance of be furnished and delivered free include such things as ARE APPLICABLE, the request for and, if not destroyed by tests, life-cycle cost, NOTWITHSTANDING competitive bids by will upon written request (within availability, delivery ANY OTHER the purchasing thirty (30) days of bid closing costs and whose PROVISIONS OF THIS agent; and date) be returned at the bidder's product and/or service RFQ TO THE expense. In the absence of is deemed to be in the CONTRARY 2. Holds any required such notification, County shall best interest of the business license have the right to dispose of the County. The County If the apparent low by a jurisdiction samples in whatever manner it shall be the sole judge bidder is not a local located in Fresno deems appropriate. in making such vendor, any local vendor County; and determination. who submitted a bid 11. RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF which was within five 3. Employs at least COUNTY FOR DEFAULT: B) Unless bidder gives percent (5%) of the one (1) full-time or notice of all-or-none lowest responsive bid two (2) part-time A) In case of default by award in bid, County as determined by the employees whose vendor, the County may may accept any item, purchasing agent shall primary residence procure the articles or group of items or on have the option of is located within service from another the basis of total bid. submitting a new bid Fresno County, or source and may recover within forty-eight (48) if the business has the cost difference and C) The County reserves hours (not including no employees, related expenses the right to reject any weekends and holidays) shall be at least occasioned thereby from and all bids and to of County’s delivery of fifty percent (50%) any unpaid balance due waive informalities or notification. Such new owned by one or the vendor or by irregularities in bids. bids must be in an more persons proceeding against D) Award Notices are amount less than or whose primary performance bond of the tentative: Acceptance equal to the lowest residence(s) is vendor, if any, or by suit of an offer made in responsive bid as located within against the vendor. The response to this determined by the Fresno County. prices paid by the County RFP/RFQ shall occur purchasing agent. If the shall be considered the only upon execution of purchasing agent 8. TIE BIDS: prevailing market price at an agreement by both receives any new bids All other factors being equal, the time such purchase is parties or issuance of from local vendors who the contract shall be awarded made. a valid written have the option of to the Fresno County vendor B) Articles or services, which Purchase Order by submitting new bids or, if neither or both are upon delivery inspection Fresno County within said forty-eight Fresno County vendors, it do not meet specifications, Purchasing. (48) hour period, it shall may be awarded by the flip of will be rejected and the E) After award, all bids award the contract to a coin in the presence of vendor will be considered shall be open to public the local vendor witnesses or the entire bid in default. Vendor shall inspection. The submitting the lowest may be rejected and re-bid. If reimburse County for County assumes no responsible bid. If no the General Requirements of expenses related to responsibility for the new bids are received, this RFP/RFQ state that they delivery of non-specified the contract shall be are applicable, the provisions goods or services. /home/storage/public_html/st1/folder28/28733/910_4900_janitorial_services.doc 1C PD-040 (5/10)
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