Invitation to bid for Liquid Oxygen delivery to the Water Treatment Plant.

TUALATIN VALLEY WATER DISTRICTLIQUID OXYGEN
Bids Due 2:00 pm, May 20, 2026
INVITATION TO BIDTualatin Valley Water District (District), as the Managing Agency and on behalf of the Willamette Water Supply System (WWSS) wishes to purchase Liquid Oxygen (LOX) in bulk quantities for delivery to the WWSS Water Treatment Plant (WTP). Interested vendors must submit bids.
All bids must be submitted to Janet Fleshman, Procurement Specialist (Bid Contact), by Wednesday, May 20, 2026 at 2:00 p.m., local time (Bid Closing Time), at https://bidlocker.us/details/6021_Liquid_Oxygen_Itb_2026. The bidding documents, including specifications, are available on Bid Locker. Bidders must sign up with Bid Locker at https://bidlocker.us/Home/bidlockerus. There is no cost to register. 
Registration with Bid Locker requires a correctly completed Confidentiality Agreement, which is available through the registration process. Following completion of the requested vendor information and upload of the Confidentiality Agreement, the vendor profile will be sent for a manual approval. Please allow one business day for your vendor profile to be approved. If it has not been approved within one business day, or if you have questions about this process, please contact bidsandproposals@tvwd.org. Bidders are advised to ensure that their Bid Locker vendor profile is active and approved a minimum of three business days prior to the Bid Closing Time to prevent any issues with submitting a bid on time. Late bids, hard copy submissions, and submissions via fa or email will not be accepted.
Bid documents may also be obtained in electronic or hard copy format by contacting Megan Verdoorn at Plan Center Northwest, PO Box 2486, Clackamas, OR 97015, 503.76.0148, megan@plancenternw.com, www.plancenternw.com. If a potential bidder obtains the ITB from Plan Center Northwest, the bidder is still responsible for registering with Bid Locker to submit their bid. 
Bidders will be notified via email when addenda are published. It is the responsibility of the bidder to obtain all addenda. If the ITB was downloaded from Bid Locker, there will be a link for addenda provided in the automated email.
There is no pre-bid conference.
Bids will be publicly opened and read aloud by telephone conference immediately after the Bid Closing Time. Bidders can attend the opening by calling the telephone conference number 971.300.4841, passcode 169 988 729.
Bidders need not be licensed under ORS 468A.720 (regarding licensing of contractors on projects involving asbestos abatement).
District reserves the right to cancel this ITB, reject any and all bids not in compliance with prescribed public contracting procedures and requirements, including proposer responsibility under ORS 279C.375(3)(b), and may reject for good cause any and all bids upon District's finding that it is in District's or the public's best interest to do so. District reserves the right to waive informalities and to negotiate a contract with the highest-scoring bidder. 
Published May 6, 2026. 4160130