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Dated: April 15, 2015. The City of Rochester Hills is soliciting proposals from qualified companies for Fire Department Uniforms and Accessories for a three (3) year term. The City reserves the right to exercise an option to renew for one (1) additional 2-year period. Sealed proposals will be received by the City of Rochester Hills, at the Purchasing Division, 1000 Rochester Hills Drive, Rochester Hills, Michigan 48309, or submitted online through the MITN website until EXACTLY 3:00 p.m. local time on Wednesday, May 6, 2015, at which time and place proposers’ names will be publicly read aloud. Faxed submittals and late submittals will not be accepted. Please visit the City of Rochester Hills’ website at www.rochesterhills.org for Construction Updates/Alerts and allow adequate time when delivering items to the City. The City of Rochester Hills officially distributes bids, requests for proposals and quotation documents from the Purchasing Division or through the Michigan Intergovernmental Trade Network (MITN). Copies of proposal documents obtained from any other source are not considered official copies. Only those vendors who obtain proposal documents from either the Purchasing Division or the MITN System are guaranteed access to receive addendum information, if such information is issued. The first step to do business with the City is to become a registered vendor by visiting www.mitn.info to link to the MITN website. Final proposal results will be posted on the MITN website after award. THE CITY OF ROCHESTER HILLS RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REJECT ANY AND ALL PROPOSALS. Please submit SEALED proposal on or before the date and time given above to the attention of: Lisa Cummins, CPPB, Purchasing Manager City of Rochester Hills, Purchasing Division, 1000 Rochester Hills Drive Rochester Hills, Michigan 48309 248.841.2537 or online through the MITN website. All proposals (3 copies) must be submitted in a Sealed Envelope marked “RFP – FIRE DEPARTMENT UNIFORMS or submitted through the MITN website. The City of Rochester Hills is capable of accepting documents in doc, pdf, jpg, tif or rtf formats. As this Request for Proposals is being made available by electronic means, the proposer accepts full responsibility to ensure that no changes are made to the Request for Proposals documents. In the event of conflict between a version of the Request for Proposals submitted by proposer and the version maintained by the City of Rochester Hills Purchasing Division, the version maintained by the City of Rochester Hills Purchasing Division shall govern. No faxed proposals will be accepted. All information requested herein must be submitted with the proposal prior to the due date; failure to do so may result in rejection of the proposal as non-responsive and/or incomplete. The City reserves the right to postpone the due date for its own convenience. Proposals are considered received when in the possession of the Purchasing Division at the due date and time. The submission of a proposal hereunder shall be considered evidence that the proposer is satisfied with respect to the conditions to be encountered, and the character, quantity and quality of the work to be performed. Please login to MITN to download complete proposal and response forms.