WWTP Upgrade with ABNR

Waupun Utilities (Utility) hereby give notice that they have elected to prequalify an equipment supplier for an Advanced Biological Nutrient Recovery System, included as part of the Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrade (WWTP) with Advanced Biological Nutrient Recovery (ABNR) project to be undertaken by the Utility.

Sealed qualification packages will be received until 2:00 P.M., local time, on Wednesday, September 18th, 2019, at the at the office of the Waupun Utilities. Submit qualification packages to:

Waupun Utilities
817 S. Madison St.,
Waupun, Wisconsin 53963-0431.
Attn: Randy Posthuma

It is mandatory that all ABNR suppliers who intend to submit an offer to provide equipment to the Utility via the General Contractor for the project, either directly or through a product representative or sales company, must provide all materials requested herein, and be approved by the Utility via this qualification process. The General Contractor will be required to list the qualified equipment manufacturers with their bid.

Copies of the Request for Qualification for Equipment Suppliers will be published and posted on the City of Waupun’s website at https://www.cityofwaupun.org/rfps.

Only equipment manufacturers, herein referred to as “suppliers”, and the specific equipment described in response to this request will be prequalified for the work. No product representatives or other third-party marketing or sales organizations will be prequalified. This does not limit the participation of these companies in the project, but merely requires that the actual equipment manufacturer be prequalified for the work.

Answers to questions described in this request for qualification as well as supplemental information as noted herein, are required from prospective suppliers.

The Utility decision will be based on the evaluation criteria described herein.

The Utility reserves the right to modify the technical specifications for the equipment described in this request prior to issuing the project Construction Documents. Such modification will not impact the outcome of this qualification process. Qualification will not relieve any bidder or supplier from meeting the requirements of the final project Contract Documents.

The Qualification Submittal is a request for information, not a cost proposal. Suppliers are advised that a formal or informal cost quotation for the ABNR System equipment is not requested and should not be included with the Qualification Submittal.

The Utility reserves the right to waive minor irregularities and omissions in the information contained in the qualification submittal and to make all final determinations.

The anticipated schedule for equipment supplier qualification is summarized as follows:

The Utility may refuse to qualify a supplier where the requested information and materials are not included in the Qualification package, or not provided by  September 18, 2019. The closing time for submittal of qualification documents will not be changed in order to accommodate supplementation of incomplete
submissions, or late submissions.

Questions about the Equipment Supplier Qualification may be submitted via email to the Utilities Engineer, with the following contact information:

Attn: Kathleen Hassing, P.E.
Applied Technologies, Inc.
13400 Bishops Lane
Suite 270
Brookfield, WI 53005
Ph: 262-784-7690
krhassing@ati-ae.com