Each time the City solicits bids or enters into a contract where the total overall purchase cost is estimated to be either: (a) more than two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000.00) for the new construction of a public improvement, or contracts for the same by the direct employment of labor or any institution supported in whole or part by public funds, except for new road construction projects in which case the total overall contract cost threshold is seventy-eight thousand two hundred fifty-eight dollars ($78,258.00); or (b) where the total overall contract cost is estimated to be more than sixty thousand dollars ($60,000.00) for the renovation, alteration or repair of a public improvement, or contracts for same by the direct employment of labor or any institution supported in whole or part by public funds, except for renovations for road construction projects in which case the total overall contract cost threshold is twenty-three thousand four hundred seventy-seven dollars ($23,477.00); or (c) otherwise in excess of the current threshold applicable by reason of the Ohio Revised Code; then in any such instance, the provisions of Ohio R.C. Chapter 4115 are applicable, and the following certification must be completed by the bidder or contractor and must accompany a bid and become part of the contract. Failure of the bidder to complete the certification shall be deemed unresponsive and the bid shall be void.
State of Ohio
Prevailing Wage Provisions
Contractor's Certification
The bidder/contractor agrees to comply in all respects with the provisions of Ohio R.C. Chapter 4115. That wage rates and fringe benefit payments contained in the attached schedule shall be the minimum to be paid under a contract regulated by Ohio R.C. Chapter 4115. That laborers, workers, and mechanics shall be paid a prevailing rate of wages as required in Ohio R.C. 4115.06. That the bidder/contractor is advised that the prevailing hourly rate of wages is subject to change by the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations during the term of the contract and such change shall not be the basis of any claim by the contractor against the City of Strongsville. That the contractor shall post in a prominent and accessible place at the contract site a legible statement of the schedule of wage rates specified in the contract to the various classifications of laborers, workers and mechanics employed, such statement to remain posted during the term of such contract, as provided in Ohio R.C. 4115.07. |
That each contractor and/or subcontractor must submit a certified copy of the complete payroll within two weeks after the initial pay date, and supplemental reports for each month thereafter, which shall exhibit, for each employee paid any wages, the employee’s name, current address, social security number, number of hours worked each day of the pay periods covered, total hours for each week, hourly rate of pay, job classification, fringe benefit payments and deductions from wages. Such reports shall be submitted to the City of Strongsville, 16099 Foltz Parkway, Strongsville, Ohio, 44149, Attention: Prevailing Wage Coordinator. If the life of the contract is expected to be not more than four months from the beginning of performance by the contractor or subcontractor, each supplemental report shall be filed each week after the initial report. The certification of each payroll shall recite that the payroll is correct and complete and that the wage rates shown are not less than those required by contract, as provided in Ohio R.C. 4115.071.
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State of Ohio
Prevailing Wage Provisions
Explanation and Procedure
In order to facilitate the administration of Ohio R.C. Chapter 4115 and to achieve the purposes of such Chapter, the City of Strongsville is requiring that all bidders/contractors comply with the provisions of such Chapter. Each time that the City of Strongsville enters into a contract the total overall project cost of which is estimated to be either: (a) more than two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000,00), for the new construction of a public improvement or to construct the same by the direct employment of labor, or any institution supported in whole or in part by public funds, except for new road construction projects in which case the total overall contract cost threshold is seventy-eight thousand two hundred fifty-eight dollars ($78,258.00); or (b) where the total overall contract cost is estimated to be more than sixty thousand dollars ($60,000.00) for the renovation, alteration or repair of a public improvement, or contracts for same by the direct employment of labor or any institution supported in whole or part by public funds, except for renovations for road construction projects in which case the total overall contract cost threshold is twenty-three thousand four hundred seventy-seven dollars ($23,477.00); or (c) otherwise in excess of the current threshold applicable by reason of the Ohio Revised Code; then in any such instance, the provisions of Ohio R.C. Chapter 4115 are applicable. The foregoing contractor’s certification must be completed or the bid/contract will be deemed nonresponsive and void. This certification becomes a part of the resultant contract. |
(Ord. 2012-147. Passed 9-4-12.)