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Home My WebLink AboutCORRESPONDENCE - BID - 7029 POUDRE TRAIL REHABILITATIONS SHIELDS STREET EAST (7)Administrative Services Purchasing Division City of Fort Collins May 29, 2009 LaFarge West Inc. 1800 North Taft Hill Road Fort Collins, CO 80521 RE: 7029 Poudre Trail Rehabilitation, Shields Street East Thank you for recently submitting a bid to the City of Fort Collins for 7029 Poudre Trail Rehabilitation, Shields Street East. 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, Ja 6s B. O'Neill II, CPPO, FNIGP rector of Purchasing and Risk Management Enclosures: Bid Bond JBO:mar 215 North Mason Street • 2nd Floor • P.O. Box 580 • Fort Collins, CO 80522-0580 • (970) 221-6775 • FAX (970) 221-6707 BID BOND KNOW AIL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: that we, the undersigned dbaarge North Lafarge West, Incn, Inc. as Principal, and as Surety, are hereby held and firmly bound unto the City of Fort Collins, Colorado, as OWNER, in the sum of $ Five Percent (5%) of Amount Bid for, the Payment of which, well and truly to be made, we hereby jointly and severally bind ourselves, successors, and assigns. THE CONDITION of this obligation is such that whereas the Princi.pal has submitted to the City of Fort Collins, Colorado the accompanying Bid and hereby made a part hereof to enter into a construction Agreement for the construction of Fort Collins Project, 7029 Poudre Trail Rehabilitation, Shields Street East. NOW THEREFORE, (a) If said Bid shall be rejected, or (b1 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 Bid) and shall furnish a BOND for, his faithful performance 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 Agreemen.t'created by the acceptance of said Bid, then this obligation shall be void; otherwise the same 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 Bic.; and said Surety does hereby waive notice of any such extension. Surety Companies executing bonds must be authorized to transact business in the State of Colorado and be accepted by the OWNER. Rev 10120107 Section 00410 Page 2 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Principal and the Surety have hereunto set their hands and seals this 21st day of April , 2009 , and such of them as are corporations have caused their corporate seals to be hereto affixed and these presents to be signed by their proper officers, the day and year first set forth above. PRINCIPAL SURETY Lafarge North American, Inc. dba Na:me : Lafarge West, Inc. Safeco Insurance Company of America AdIress: 1800 N. Taft Hill Road (SEAL) {. t Rev 10/20/07 1767 Sentry Parkway West Blue Bell, PA 19422 n By: Sandra E. Bronson 1nnAi� Title: Attorney -in -Fact Section 00410 Page 3 '0�iber`t POWER Iutttn OF ATTORNEY KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS: No. 5014 Safeco Insurance Company of America General Insurance Company of America 1001 4th Avenue Suite 1700 Seattle, WA 98154 That SAFECO INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA and GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA, each a Washington corporation, does each hereby appoint *SANDRA E. BRONSON; ROSEMARIE CAPONI; RICHARD A. JACOBUS; DENNIS C. LAUSIER; ELIZABETH MARRERO; MAUREEN MCNEILL, WAYNE G. MCVAUGH; MARY C. OTEARY; ADRIENNE SEAFORD; DOUGLAS R. WHEELER; DARELLA E. WHITE; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania*************************************************************** its true and lawful attorney(s)-in-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 21st day of March 1 2009 jw* Dexter R. Legg, Secretary Timothy A. Mikolajewski Vice President 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-fact or under other appropriate titles with authority 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 seal, 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, (i) The provisions of Article V, Section 13 of the By -Laws, and (ii) A copy of the power -of -attorney appointment, executed pursuant thereto, and (ill) Certifying that said power-of-attomey appointment is in full force and effect, the signature of the certifying officer may be by facsimile, and the seal of the Company may be a facsimile thereof." I, Dexter R. Legg , 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 he It set my h d and affixed the facsimiles I of said corporation E G ' this day of sea� E SEAL SEAL 4w MtAS141c ofwat Dexter R. Legg, Secretary S-0974/13S 3109 WEB PDF .s- SAFECO INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA FINANCIAL STATEMENT—DECEMBER 31, 2008 Assets Cash and Bank Deposits ........ I ............. I............... S 267,363,750 *Bonds —U.S Government.............................................13,359,352 *Other Bonds........................................................... 2,353,906,395 *Stocks.................................................................... 281,831,749 RealEstate..................................................................... 0 Agents' Balances or Uncollected Premiums ....... ........ 557,216,809 Accrued Interest and Rents .................................... 34,037,369 Other Admitted Assets ........................................... 444.517.784 Total Admitted Assets ......................... SZ.952_2�_t_4_s g Liabillties UnearnedPremiums .............................................. S 666,660,985 Reserve for Claims and Claims Expense...................1,577,767,462 Funds Held Under Reinsurance Treaties ............... 430,979 Reserve for Dividends to Policyholders ......................... 2,164,985 Additional Statutory Reserve ................................ Reserve for Commissions, Tares and _ Other Liabilities .............................................. 935.383.360 Total ............................................ S3,128,407,771 Special Surplus Funds...... S 3,399,995 Capital Stock ................................ 5,000,000 Paid in Surplus ................................ 346,118,108 Unassigned Surplus ................... 415307334 Surplus to Policyholders ...................... 769.825 437 Total Liabflitles and Surplus ...................... * Bonds are stated at amortized or investment value; Stocks at Association Market Values. Securities carried at $113,984,922 are deposited as regvired bylaw. I,11M MiKOLAJEWSKI, Vice -President of SAFECO Insurance Company of America, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true, and correct statement of the Assets and Iaabiliti es of said Corporation, as of December 31, 2008, to the best of my knowledge and belief. IN WrINESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Corporation at Seattle, Washington, this 1st day of March, 2009. M : EMMM W11 I &1262a 3Ani