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Home My WebLink AboutCORRESPONDENCE - BID - 7039 LANDSCAPE AND IRRIGATION IMPROVEMENTS HARMONY AND SHIELDS (9)Financial Services Purchasing Division 215 North Mason Street 2nd Floor PO Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522 970.221.6775 970.221.6707 - fax fcgov.com/Purchasing March 4, 2010 ValleyCrest Landscape Development, Inc. 8888 N. Motsenbocker Road Parker, CO 80134 RE: 7039 Landscape and Irrigation Improvements at Harmony and Shields Thank you for submitting a bid to the City of Fort Collins for 7039 Landscape and Irrigation Improvements at Harmony and Shields. 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, 4es J O'Neill II, CPPO, FNIGP Director of Purchasing and Risk Management Enclosures: Bid Bond JBO:jkb s6CTION 00410 Safeco Insurance Company of America BID BOND KNOW ALL MEN BY T fIESE PRESENTS: that we, the undersigned ValleyCrest Landscape Development, Inc. as Principal, and as Surety, are hereby held and firmly bound unto the City of Fart Collins, Colorado, as OWNER,Iin the sum of $ *** for the payment of which, well and truly Ito be made, we hereby jointly and severally bind ourselves, successors, and assigns. TFJU CONDITION of this obligation is such that whereas the Principal has submitted to the City of tart 6ollins, Colorado the accompanying Bid and hereby made a part hereof to enter into a Construction Agreement for the construction of Fort Collins ;Project, 7039 Landscape and Irrigation Improvements at Harmony and Shields. NOW THEREFORE, (a) If said Bid shall be •rejecrea, or (b) If said Bid shall, be accepted and the Principal shall execute and doliver a Contract in the form of Contract attached hereto (properly completed in accordance with said Bi.d) and shall furnish a BOND for ni.;, 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 Agreement created by the acceptance of said Bid, then this obligatioci shall be void; otherwise the saline shall remain in force and effect, it being expressly understood and agxeed that the liability of the Surety for; any and all claims hereunder shall, in no event, exceed the penal amount of this obligati.on as herelin stated. I 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 theitime within which the OWNER may accept such Bid; and said Surety does hereby viaive notice of any such extension. Surety Companies executing bonds :must be authorized to transact business in the State of. Colorado and be accepted by t;he OWNER. 'Five Percent of Amount Bid (5% of Amount Bid) Rev10;20107 Section 00400 Page 1 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Principal and the Surety have hereunto Sot their hands and seals this 12th day of June , 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. PRINUPAI, Rev so12M7 SURETY Safeco Insurance Company of America (SEAL) Section 00400 Page 2 CALIFORNIA ALL PURPOSE ACKNOWLEDGMENT State of California County of Los Angeles On JUN 12 2009 before me, M. Gonzales, Notary Public, personally appeared Simone Gerhard who proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the person(&) whose name(s) is/afe subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that he/she/t executed the same in hi-s/her/them authorized capacity(+es), and that by Ws/her/them signature(&) on the instrument the person(&), or the entity upon behalf of which the person(&) acted, executed the instrument. I certify under PENALTY OF PERJURY under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing paragraph is true and correct. WITNESS my hand and official seal. M. GONZALES GUMM• #1605728 I NOTARY PUBLIC - CALIFORNIA I f LOS ANGELES COUNTY My Comm. Expires October 5, 2009 M. Gonzales Libert , POWER `A Mutu , OF ATTORNEY KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS: No. 6843 Safety 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 E.S. ALBRECHT, JR.; TRACY ASTON; TOM BRANIGAN; K.D. CONRAD; ASHRAF ELMASRY; SIMONE GERHARD; JOYCE HERRIN; MICHAEL R. MAYBERRY; C.K. NAKAMURA; MARIA PENA; WILLIAM A. SADLER; EDWARD C. SPECTOR; MARINA TAPIA; LISA L. THORNTON; BRENDA WONG; NOEMI QUIROZ; B. ALEMAN; Los Angeles, CA 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 2009 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 attorneys -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 (iii) Certifying that said power -of -attorney 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 hereunto set my hand and affixed the facsimile seal of said corporation this day of 111N 12 2009 a�GE ,yy SCE CpMp $ COWME SEAL SEAL at I953 .� ! 23 a. ; 7t� WASOjr�wag�`'`�` Dexter R. Legg, Secretary S-0974/DS 3/09 WEB PDF