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2026 Public Notice for the Request for Proposals for Linden Opioid Abatement and Substance Abuse Eradication and Redirection Program – Lead Consultants, Prevention Consultants, Safe Haven Facility

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN for the request for qualifications of professional service contracts beginning March 1, 2026.

All solicitations may ONLY be obtained on the City of Linden’s eProcurement portal at 

https://app.munivendor.com

  • Sealed offers shall be submitted via the City of Linden’s eProcurement portal https://app.munivendor.com up to and until Friday, February 13, 2026 at 10:00 A.M. (prevailing time). The City’s eProcurement portal will not enable any submissions for these solicitations after Friday, February 13, 2026 at 10:00 A.M.
  • Only offers submitted through the MuniVendor eProcurement portal at https://app.munivendor.com will be accepted. No physical, manual, paper, nor any other type of electronic response type will be accepted.
  • Offerors (respondents, prospective vendors, etc.) may sign up for MuniVendor by going to https://app.munivendor.com/signup
  • Available solicitations will go live on the MuniVendor platform this morning at 10:00 A.M.

Offerors are required to comply with N.J.S.A. 10:5-31, et seq., P.L. 1975, c. 127, N.J.A.C. 17:27-1 et seq., and all other applicable laws, regulations, or ordinances concerning affirmative action goals and equal employment opportunity.

The City of Linden reserves the right to reject any and all proposals in accordance with N.J.S.A. 40A:11-4, 40A:11-13.2 and 40A:11-23.2, and waive minor informalities not considered material defects under N.J.S.A. 40A:11-1, et seq.

The City of Linden will conduct and broadcast the bid opening in real time at Linden City Hall, 301 North Wood Avenue in the Council Conference Room, 2nd Floor of Linden City Hall. Offerors and the public have the option of remotely viewing the offer opening through a Google Meet conference with visual and audio capability. Offerors may join the virtual bid opening on Friday, February 13, 2026 at 10:00 A.M. by going to https://meet.google.com/aei-fiva-dps 

Contact Information

  • With questions regarding the opening process, please contact the City of Linden’s Purchasing Department by email at purchasing@linden-nj.gov. 
  • With technical support with the MuniVendor platform, please contact MuniVendor directly by email at vendorsupport@munivendor.com, or by phone at 732-354-1215 from 10:00 A.M. until 4:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time.

Request for Qualifications List

Below is a list of the requests for qualifications of professional service contracts that are available beginning March 1, 2026. 

  1. Linden Opioid Abatement and Substance Abuse Eradication and Re-Direction Program-LEAD CONSULTANTS
  2. Linden Opioid Abatement and Substance Abuse Eradication and Re-Direction Program-PREVENTION CONSULTANTS
  3. Safe Haven Facility

Jessica Slawinski, QPA
Purchasing Department
City of Linden

Notice of Intent to Award Contract Under a National Cooperative Agreement

Notice of Intent to Award Contract under a National Cooperative Purchasing Agreement Contract for Cintas Corporation, 6800 Cintas Boulevard, Mason, OH 45040.

The City of Linden, in the County of Union and State of New Jersey, intends to award a contract to Cintas Corporation for citywide fire protection through the OMNIA Partners (OMNIA) contract## 001299, Workplace Solutions, with The University of Nebraska. Information regarding this contract may be found in the Office of the Purchasing Department, 301 North Wood Avenue, Linden, NJ 07036 during regular business hours or may be found at the OMNIA website.

The City of Linden is an authorized member of the OMNIA Partners program in a resolution adopted on November 9, 2021. The Initial Term for this contract is June 1, 2023 through May 31, 2028.

The contract price was established by OMNIA Partners original Request For Proposals# 3702-22-4618 and pursuant to its Customers Agreement Addendum No. 3 on April 8, 2025 for such in the amount not to exceed $130,000.00.

The City of Linden will utilize this contract from January 1, 2026-December 31, 2026.

The City of Linden is permitted to join National Cooperative Purchasing Agreements under the Authority of N.J.S.A. 52:34-6.2(b)(3). All legal notices published by the City of Linden may be obtained or viewed on the City of Linden’s official website at https://linden-nj.gov/notices

Opportunity to comment will begin upon the publication of this notice and end ten (10) calendar days thereafter.

Jessica L. Slawinski
Qualified Purchasing Agent

Notice regarding Compliance with new Requirements for Online Public Notices Changes Effective as of January 1, 2026

The City of Linden website is in compliance with changes regarding the publication requirements for official public notices specified in P.L. 2025, c. 72.

Starting on January 1, 2026, local governments (municipalities, counties, boards of education, and special districts) must publish public notices twice a month through December 31, 2026. The public notice must include the link to the municipality’s webpage for official notices. The notice must include complete text that each legal notice of the local government may be obtained or viewed on the public entity’s official website and provide the hyperlink.

The local City of Linden link to the official public notices page is linden-nj.gov/notices. This same message is also in the City of Linden official Notices page, and will reappear every two weeks in the Notices page throughout 2026, as per the requirements specified in P.L. 2025, c. 72.

The notices must also include a hyperlink to the Secretary of State’s public notice webpage. Currently that hyperlink is not available as the Secretary of State has until March 1, 2026, to establish the website. The new law took into account that the State’s webpage may not be available by January 1 and includes language that until the Secretary of State’s legal notices webpage is available a local government will be deemed to satisfy this new requirement as long as they published a notice with the local government link.

The City of Linden will continue to monitor the status of the Secretary of State’s public notice webpage and will provide the link once it is available.

Starting on March 1, 2026, local governments must publish their legal notices on their official websites. This, however, does not prohibit local governments from using print publications in addition to publishing notices on their official websites. A municipality may publish legal notices in a print or online newspaper if they choose, but they still must publish them on their municipal website. If a local unit uses an online news publication, it must prominently display a hyperlink on its website to the online news publication. Online newspapers must publish any legal notices they receive within 24 hours of receipt.

When the City of Linden publishes notices in print publications, that publication will also include the official City of Linden notices link, which is linden-nj.gov/notices.

The local government’s official website must be accessible, free of charge, with the items conspicuously placed on the website. Notices must be displayed for at least one week, or other time period as required by law, before transferring the notice to the archive. The notices must be archived for at least one year. The archive is not subject to the records retention schedule established by the State Records Committee or the Destruction of Public Records law. 

As per P.L. 2025, c. 72, notices published will always remain active for at least one week or other time period as required by law before transferring the notice to the archive. Archives will be saved for at least one full year.

Notice of Intent to Award Contract Under a National Cooperative Agreement

Notice of Intent to Award Contract under a National Cooperative Purchasing Agreement Contract for the monthly lease of Zoll 3 Automatic Defibrillators, Monthly AED inspections, AED Electrode Pads & Batteries and Alarmed Metal AED Cabinets.

The City of Linden, in the County of Union and State of New Jersey, intends to participate in Sourcewell for the acquisition and leasing of Zoll 3 Automatic Defibrillators, Monthly Monitoring Maintenance and Medical Equipment. Information regarding this contract may be found in the Office of the Purchasing Department, 301 North Wood Avenue, Linden, NJ 07036 during regular business hours.

The City of Linden is an authorized member of Sourcewell program in a resolution adopted on August 18, 2015. It is the intent of the City of Linden to lease of Zoll 3 Automatic Defibrillators, Monthly Monitoring Maintenance and Medical Equipment from UniFirst First Aid Corporation d/b/a UniFirst First Aid and Safety, the authorized distributor using Sourcewell Contract# 041823-ZLL. This contract has an expiration date of June 30, 2027.

The contract price for the lease and maintenance was establishing by Sourcewell pursuant to its receipt of bids for such in the amount of $22,428.00.

The City of Linden will utilize this contract from January 1, 2026-December 31, 2026.

The City of Linden is permitted to join National Cooperative Purchasing Agreements under the Authority of N.J.S.A. 52:34-6.2(b)(3). All legal notices published by the City of Linden may be obtained or viewed on the City of Linden’s official website at https://linden-nj.gov/notices

Opportunity to comment will begin upon the publication of this notice and end ten (10) calendar days thereafter.

Jessica L. Slawinski
Qualified Purchasing Agent

Notice of Intent to Award Contract Under a National Cooperative Agreement

Notice of Intent to Award Contract under a National Cooperative Purchasing Agreement Contract for Samsara, Inc., 1 De Haro Street, San Francisco, CA 94107.

The City of Linden, in the County of Union and State of New Jersey, intends to participate in Sourcewell for the acquisition of Samsara Telematics Vehicle GPS and Maintenance. Information regarding this contract may be found in the Office of the Purchasing Department, 301 North Wood Avenue, Linden, NJ 07036 during regular business hours.

The City of Linden is an authorized member of Sourcewell program in a resolution adopted on August 18, 2015. It is the intent of the City of Linden to purchase Samsara Telematics Vehicle GPS and Maintenance from Samsara, Inc., the authorized distributor using Sourcewell Contract# 102924-SAM. The contract has an expiration date of April 23, 2029.

The contract price for the Samsara Telematics Vehicle GPS and Maintenance was established by Sourcewell pursuant to its receipt of bids for such in the amount of $18,503.35.

The City of Linden will utilize this contract from January 1, 2026-May 31, 2026.

The City of Linden is permitted to join National Cooperative Purchasing Agreements under the Authority of N.J.S.A. 52:34-6.2(b)(3). All legal notices published by the City of Linden may be obtained or viewed on the City of Linden’s official website at https://linden-nj.gov/notices

Opportunity to comment will begin upon the publication of this notice and end ten (10) calendar days thereafter.

Jessica L. Slawinski
Qualified Purchasing Agent

Special Improvement District – 2026 Meetings Notice

Below are the Linden District Management Corporation (SID) meeting dates for the 2026 calendar year. All meetings will be held at 9am at the Uptown Linden office, located at 403 North Wood Avenue in Linden. There will be no meetings for the months July and August.

  • January 8th
  • February 12th
  • March 12th
  • April 9th
  • May 14th
  • June 11th
  • Sept 10th
  • Oct 8th
  • November 12th
  • December 10th

Public Hearing Announcement Regarding NJDEP Green Acres – James Dobson Park

Purpose: The City of Linden is seeking funding through the State of NJ Green Acres Program for improvements at James Dobson Park located at the East Blancke Street and Maple Avenue Intersection in Linden, New Jersey.

Project Scope: The City of Linden proposes to create and improve new facilities at James Dobson Park.

Information: The public is encouraged to attend a public hearing to learn more about the proposal and to ask questions or provide comments on the proposed plan on January 20, 2026 during the regularly scheduled 7:00 p.m. council meeting. The meeting will be held in person as part of the regularly scheduled Council meeting. Written comments on the proposed application may be directed to Keith Pressey, Director of Parks and Recreation, at (908) 474-8600 or by email.

Notice regarding Compliance with new Requirements for Online Public Notices Changes Effective as of January 1, 2026

The City of Linden website is in compliance with changes regarding the publication requirements for official public notices specified in P.L. 2025, c. 72.

Starting on January 1, 2026, local governments (municipalities, counties, boards of education, and special districts) must publish public notices twice a month through December 31, 2026. The public notice must include the link to the municipality’s webpage for official notices. The notice must include complete text that each legal notice of the local government may be obtained or viewed on the public entity’s official website and provide the hyperlink.

The local City of Linden link to the official public notices page is linden-nj.gov/notices. This same message is also in the City of Linden official Notices page, and will reappear every two weeks in the Notices page throughout 2026, as per the requirements specified in P.L. 2025, c. 72.

The notices must also include a hyperlink to the Secretary of State’s public notice webpage. Currently that hyperlink is not available as the Secretary of State has until March 1, 2026, to establish the website. The new law took into account that the State’s webpage may not be available by January 1 and includes language that until the Secretary of State’s legal notices webpage is available a local government will be deemed to satisfy this new requirement as long as they published a notice with the local government link.

The City of Linden will continue to monitor the status of the Secretary of State’s public notice webpage and will provide the link once it is available.

Starting on March 1, 2026, local governments must publish their legal notices on their official websites. This, however, does not prohibit local governments from using print publications in addition to publishing notices on their official websites. A municipality may publish legal notices in a print or online newspaper if they choose, but they still must publish them on their municipal website. If a local unit uses an online news publication, it must prominently display a hyperlink on its website to the online news publication. Online newspapers must publish any legal notices they receive within 24 hours of receipt.

When the City of Linden publishes notices in print publications, that publication will also include the official City of Linden notices link, which is linden-nj.gov/notices.

The local government’s official website must be accessible, free of charge, with the items conspicuously placed on the website. Notices must be displayed for at least one week, or other time period as required by law, before transferring the notice to the archive. The notices must be archived for at least one year. The archive is not subject to the records retention schedule established by the State Records Committee or the Destruction of Public Records law. 

As per P.L. 2025, c. 72, notices published will always remain active for at least one week or other time period as required by law before transferring the notice to the archive. Archives will be saved for at least one full year.

Notice RE New Job Positions Available In The City of Linden

Once completed all applications must be returned via email or mailed to City of Linden City Clerks’ Office, 301 North Wood Avenue, Linden, NJ 07036. Applications that are mailed must be postmarked by the application deadline or they will be returned to the applicant. Please be advised that all employment applications must be completed at the time of submission. Please include copies of resumes, proof of qualifications or any additional documents you wish to submit with your application.

Submission Deadline is Friday, January 2, 2026 at 4:00pm.

  • One (1) Full-Time Confidential Clerk 1 position, in the Mayor’s Office. 
  • One (1) Full-Time Public Information Officer position, within the Office of the Mayor. 
  • One (1) Full-Time Public Safety Telecommunicator Trainee position, for the City of Linden Police Department.

Click here to see all job opportunities available in the City of Linden.