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NOTICE TO BIDDERS

The DeSoto County Board of Supervisors will receive bids for a Fire Department Training Facility in the following manner:

BID FILE NO: 24-258-002 Bid for Purchase & Assembly of One Fire Department Training Facility

Unpriced technical proposals will be accepted until 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, January 23, 2024 by electronic bid submission to www.centralbidding.com . Submissions will be evaluated and vendors submitting acceptable offers will be invited to submit priced bids. Electronic bids and/or reverse auction bids can be submitted at www.centralbidding.com. For any questions relating to the electronic bidding process, please call Central Bidding at 225-810-4814.

Bidding will be held by electronic reverse auction on Monday, January 29, 2024 at 10:00 a.m. Bidders may come to the Office of Procurement with a paper bid and receive technical assistance in entering their bid in the reverse auction but the preferred method is to submit to www.centralbidding.com . Bidders may submit technical offers to Central Bidding at no charge. (Instructions to Central Bidding are included in this packet.)

Specifications and procedures are available by registering on the Procurement page of the DeSoto County Board of Supervisors website and printing the bid package at: http://desotocountyms.gov and on file in the Office of Procurement, DeSoto County Administration Building, 365 Losher Street, Suite 340, Hernando, Mississippi, during normal business hours at no charge. Bid packages may also be downloaded from Central Bidding for a fee at www.centralbidding.com . All bids must comply with the specifications provided. DeSoto County reserves the right to amend the specifications, as necessary, and agrees to notify all having requested bid packets from the DeSoto County Office of Procurement.

The Office of Procurement reserves the right to extend the auction date if necessary to complete the bid proposal pre-qualification process.

Each bidder shall comply with the laws of the State of Mississippi for bidding procedures and licensing requirements. All bids submitted in excess of $50,000 by a prime contractor to do any building, construction, repair, maintenance or related work must comply with Section 31-3-21, Mississippi Code of 1972, by securing a Certificate of Responsibility from the State Board of Public Contractors or by showing a statement to the effect that the bid is less than $50,000 and Certificate of Responsibility provision does not apply, on the outside of the envelope. Bidders are to include their Certificate of Responsibility number on the outside of the envelope when applicable.

In accordance with Miss. Code. Ann. Section 31-3-21(3), preference shall be given to resident contractors. Nonresident contractors submitting a bid shall attach thereto a copy of his resident state’s current preference law, if any, pertaining to such state’s treatment of nonresident contractors.

Certified Check or Bid Bond for five percent (5%) of total bid payable to DESOTO COUNTY must accompany each proposal. The awarded bidder must provide a Performance and Payment Bond within ten (10) days of award in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the total amount of the bid.

Retainage may be held from each invoice in accordance with Miss. Code Ann. Section 31-5-33 and paid after the final acceptance of the project.

The Board of Supervisors reserves the right to reject any and all bids and waive any informalities.

WITNESS MY SIGNATURE, this the 2nd day of January, 2024.

________________________/s/ MISTY HEFFNER

(SEAL)

MISTY HEFFNER, CHANCERY CLERK

DeSoto County Board of Supervisors

SUBMITTED: DESOTO TIMES TRIBUNE

FOR PUBLICATION ON: Thursday January 04, 2024

Thursday, January 11, 2024

PROOF OF PUBLICATION TO: DeSoto County Administrator Office

DeSoto County Administration Building

365 Losher Street, Suite 300

Hernando, MS 38632

Phone: 662-469-8180