The URL can be used to link to this page

Home My WebLink AboutCORRESPONDENCE - BID - 5972 SOUTH TAFT HILL ROAD HORSETOOTH HARMONY 26680Administrative Services Purchasing Division City of Fort Collins May 30, 2006 Lafarge West, Inc. 1800 N. Taft Hill road Fort Collins, CO 80521 RE: Bid 5972 South Taft Hill Road Improvement Project Thank you for recently submitting a bid to the City of Fort Collins for Bid 5972 South Taft Hill Road Improvement Project. Your firm was not the low bidder and in accordance with contract specifications, your bid bond is being returned to you. We appreciate the time spent in preparing your bid response and we hope you continue your interest in City of Fort Collins' projects. If you should have any questions, please contact me. Sincerely, J es B. O'Neill II, CPPO, FNIGP Director of Purchasing and Risk Management Enclosures: Bid Bond JBO:cj 215 North Mason Street • 2nd Floor • P.O. Box 580 • Fort Collins, CO 80522-0580 • (970) 221-6775 • FAX (970) 221-6707 SECTION 00410 BID BOND KNOW ALI, MUN BY THESE PRESENTS: that we, the undersigned as Principal, and Safec_o _insurance Company of America- _ as SuT.ety, are hereby held and firmly ?bound unto the City of Fort Collins_, Colorado, as OWNR&, in the sum of ( 5% Amt. Bid) Five Percent of Amount Bid for the payment of which, well, and truly to be made, we hereby jointly and severally bind ourselves, successors, and assigns. TILE CONDITION of this obligation is such that whereas the Principal hn. :submitted to the City of Vort Collins, Colorado the accompanying Bid and hereby made: a part hereof to enter into a"Conntruction Agreement for the construction of. Port Collins Project, 5972 South Taft Hill Road Improvements CR-30V (Ilarmony Road) to llorsetooth Road. NOW THF;RE.FOR ' , (a) if said Bid shall be rejected, or (b) If said Hid shall be accepted and the Principal shall execute and deliver a Contract in the form of Contract attached hereto (properly completed in accordance with said Aid) and shall furnish a BOND for hie faithful porformasice of said Contract, and for payment of all persons performing labor or furnishing materials in connection therewith, and shall in all other respects perform the Agreement created by the acceptance of said Bid, then LhiS obligation shall be void; otherwise the -name shall remain in force and effect, it being expressly understood and agreed that the: liability of the Surety for any and all claims hereunder shall, in no event, exceed the penal amount of this obligation as herein stated. The. Surety, for value received, hereby stipulates and agrees that the obligations of said Surety and its BOND shall be in no way impaired or affected by any extension of the time. within which the OWNER may accept such Rid; and said Surety does hereby waive notice of any such extension, Surety Companies executing bonds must be authorized to transact, business in the Slate of Colorado and be accepted by the CUMn. 1/96 Section 00410 huge 2 r s � IN WITNESS WHVREOF, the Principal and the Surety have hereunto set their hand. - and seals this 17th day of Apr i l " , 2006 , and such of them as are corporations have caused their corporate seals to be hereto affixed and these, prer.8131tN to be signed by their proper officers, the day and year first set forth above. PRINCIPAL Name: Lafarge West, Inc. Address,: 1800 N. Taft Hill Road Ft. Collins, C 0521 hy""Kermern kc. eaj.&- Title: _...General Manager A'1" RST,:�, By:� SURETY Safeco Insurance Company of America Safeco Plaza Seattle, WA 98185 (800)3322--3226 Title: Melissa D. Evans. Attornev-in-Fact 7/96 5action 00410 Page 3 r. m POWER Safeoo Insurance Companies OF ATTORNEY PO Box 34526 Seattle, WA 96124-1526 No. 6957 KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS: That SAFECO INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA and GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA, each a Washington corporation, does each hereby appoint rtrtrtrtkk**KEVI ,] B. ALEXANDER, LAURA E. COON; MELISSA D. EVANS; MARY T. FLANIGAN; MICHAEL C. FROST; DAVID M. LOCKTON; RONALD J. LOCKTON; KATHY M. LOFTUS; CLAUDIA MANDATO; CHRISTY M. MCCART; PATRICK T. MOUGHAN; JAMES C. PATEIDL; PATRICK T. PRIBYL; DEBRA J. SCARBOROUGH; CAROLYN VAN HAAREN- CLIFFORD B. YOUNG; Kansas City, Mrssounrtkrtrtrtkrtkrtkksrtrtssrtrtkskkkkrtrtrtkkrtrtrtkrtkrtrtrtrtkrtkksrtrtrtrt its true and lawful attomey(s)4n-fact, with full authority to execute on Its behalf fidelity and surety bonds or undertakings and other documents of a similar character issued in the course of its business, and to bind the respective company thereby. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, SAFECO INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA and GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA have each executed and attested these presents this 29[b day of ADS 1 2005 STEPHANIE DALEY WATSON, SECRETARY MIKE PETERS, PRESIDENT, SURETY CERTIFICATE Extract from the By -Laws of SAFECO INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA and of GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA: 'Article V, Section 13. - FIDELITY AND SURETY BONDS ... the President, any Vice President, the Secretary, and any Assistant Vice President appointed for that purpose by the officer in charge of surety operations, shall each have authority to appoint individuals as attomeys-in-fad or under other appropriate titles with auttwrity to execute on behalf of the company fidelity and surety bonds and other documents of similar character issued by the company in the course of its business... On any instrument making or evidencing such appointment, the signatures may be affixed by facsimile. On any instrument conferring such authority or on any bond or undertaking of the company, the seat, or a facsimile thereof, may be impressed or affixed or In any other manner reproduced; provided, however, that the seal shall not be necessary to the validity of any such instrument or undertaking Extract from a Resolution of the Board of Directors of SAFECO INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA and of GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA adopted July 28, 1970. 'On any certificate executed by the Secretary or an assistant secretary of the Company setting out, (1) The provisions of Article V, Section 13 of the By -Laws, and (ii) A copy of the power-of-attomey appointment, executed pursuant thereto, and (fit) Certifying that said power -of -attorney appointment is in tub force and effect, the signature of the certifying officer may be by facsimile, and the seal of the Company may be a facsimile thereof.' 1, Stephanie Daley -Watson, Secretary of SAFECO INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA and of GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA, do hereby certify that the foregoing extracts of the By -Laws and of a Resolution of the Board of Directors of these corporations, and of a Power of Attorney issued pursuant thereto, are true and correct, and that both the By -Laws, the Resolution and the Power of Attorney are still in full force and effect IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the facsimile seal of said corporation this APR 1 7 2106 day of C% ,04owlw V STEPHANIE DALEY-WATSON, SECRETARY Safeoo and the Salem logo are registered trademarks of Safeoo Corporation. WEB POF