SLED Opportunity · TEXAS · CITY OF DENTON
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The City of Denton requests proposals for DEC engine maintenance spare parts and services, including engine and generator components. Submissions must be via IONWAVE or hard copy. The contract requires innovative, cost-effective solutions and includes detailed parts and service scopes. Minor maintenance is handled by City staff; field service rates are requested for additional work.
The City highly recommends that respondents do not wait until minutes before the due date and time to submit proposal. The submittal process may take significant time. Submissions accepted via IONWAVE or hard copy ONLY (no emails). Questions must be submitted by the deadline via IONWAVE only (no emails/no phone calls) The City of Denton (the City) is requesting submissions to contract with an individual or business with considerable experience in providing goods or services of this solicitation. The responses and the cost solutions shall be submitted to the City of Denton in a sealed submission. The awarded individual or business shall possess a proven track record of using innovative approaches to providing goods and services that represent the best value to their clients. The awarded individual or business shall have the ability to accomplish all aspects of the requested services. The selected individual or firm should be able to provide innovative methods to deal with municipal challenges, and cost effective solutions. A firm may submit a solicitation response for one or more of the categories of product or services requested in this solicitation. It is the intent of the entity to consider interlocal cooperative agreements and state/federal contracts in determining the best value for the entity. --- Q&A --- Q1: Similar to the previous, the Scope of Work file as it relates to the supply of parts states “any and all parts associated with the engines owned by the City to include but not limited to engine components, parts, generator parts, auxiliary parts and emission systems components” but the Excel file titled “8879 Parts list” identifies 3,498 specific parts. Can this scope be clarified? A1: Please review the attachment "Part List" along with the rates in IONWAVE. Submitted: 8/8/2025 03:01:53 PM (CT) Q2: The Bid Invitation also instructs us to provide our “Standard Labor Rate” and “Emergency Work Hour”. If our above assumption is correct and we are to provide pricing for the specific maintenance activities outlined in the Excel spreadsheet, for what purpose will the “Standard Labor Rate” and “Emergency Work Hour” be used? A2: The purpose of the rates is case by case where field service assistance is needed. Outside of normal hr based interval needs. Submitted: 8/8/2025 03:00:16 PM (CT) Q3: Clarification: Some OEM recommended services are not indicated in the Engine and Auxiliary Services scope file (for example turbochargers, charge air coolers, BEBH Inspection, vibration dampeners (24k), etc.). Only scope items indicated in the Engine and Auxiliary Services are included in this offering. We will assume items not indicated in the provided scope attachment will be addressed by Denton, this includes all minor maintenance interval scopes. A3: All minor intervals and inspections up to 15,000 is done by personnel at the DEC. if issues are found at times during these intervals it will be the plant managers decision for further action. Submitted: 8/8/2025 02:58:02 PM (CT) Q4: Will Denton provide access to all engine specific tooling that is required to complete the Engine and Auxiliary Services scopes? Where applicable, please note provided tooling should be calibrated and in good working order. A4: Yes, Denton will first confirm tooling is correct for the tasks and provide when needed. If tools are not onsite Denton will purchase what is needed. Submitted: 8/8/2025 02:54:51 PM (CT) Q5: Ionwave bid docs include a sample contract. Is this sample contract expected to be redlined as part of the bid process or is that to be done after the bid is awarded? A5: We will be using the sample contract. Please provide any bid exceptions with proposal. Submitted: 8/8/2025 02:53:44 PM (CT)
SLED stands for State, Local, and Education. These are solicitations issued by state governments, counties, cities, school districts, utilities, and higher education institutions — as opposed to federal agencies.
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