Chip Government Bids & RFPs

Responses must be received no later than June 17, 2026, by 10:00 MST.

Contractors' building inspectors shall use the federal AHERA protocol for bulk sample collection. Surveyors shall each be an AHERA-accredited building inspector. Management planners shall be an AHERA-accredited management planner and asbestos project managers shall be AHERA-accredited project designer. Building inspectors, management planners, project designers and LBP inspectors shall have at least 10 years of similar experience with projects of substantially similar size and scope. All laboratories used for analysis of bulk asbestos samples shall be NVLAP-accredited.

The contractor shall identify, quantify, and assess all ALBHM and suspect during the survey and categorize each material according to the AHERA physical and hazard assessment system and AHERA response categories. All samples shall be transported with a chain of custody to a National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation for Program testing.

Proposals will be received until 12 noon local time on June 25th, 2026.

Payments will be made within 30 days from approval for ninety 90 percent of the work completed as set forth in the progress estimate, until the work is fifty 50 in place. Thereafter, additional retainage shall not be withheld unless it is determined that the contractor is not making satisfactory progress.

For one year after the date of final payment, the contractor shall maintain and repair the work. Any work which is found to be defective shall promptly and without cost to the road commission be corrected or replaced.

The road commission will award the contract to the bidder whose bid is in the best interests of the project and the road commission.

The contractor must be prequalified by the Michigan Department of Transportation for the work to be performed under this contract.

The contractor shall be responsible for liquidated damages for oversight costs per calendar day for each day after the substantial completion date the work remains substantially incomplete.

On request, the road commission will provide bidder access to the site to conduct examinations, investigations, explorations, tests, and studies as bidder deems necessary for submission of a bid.

More than one bid for the same work from an individual or entity under the same or different names will not be considered. Reasonable grounds for believing that any bidder has an interest in more than one bid for the work may be cause for disqualification of that bidder.