The bulletin posting and the bid documents disagree regarding pre-bid meeting and bid deadline dates.
The bulletin dates are correct.
The mandatory pre-bid meeting will take place Wednesday, January 9, 2019, at 10:00 AM Local Time at
ISU Purchasing Office
College Place (formerly Uptown Crossing)
100 South Fell Avenue, Suite D Normal, Illinois
Bids are due on Tuesday, January 22, 2019, at 2:00 PM Local Time at
ISU Purchasing Office
College Place (formerly Uptown Crossing)
100 South Fell Avenue, Suite D
Normal, Illinois
Addendum 01 has posted. See attached file:CC180081add01
MANDATORY PRE-BID MEETING:
January 9, 2019 at 10:00 AM local time at:
Purchasing Office
Illinois State University at Uptown Crossing
100 South Fell Avenue, Suite D
Normal, IL 61790
Interested Prime bidders must attend this meeting and your company's name must appear on the official attendance log. This log will be used in the bid opening process, and if your company's name does not appear on the log, your bid will not be opened.
PARTICIPATION IN A U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR APPROVED AND REGISTERED APPRENTICESHIP & TRAINING PROGRAM IS REQUIRED ON PUBLIC WORKS BY PROCUREMENT CODE (30 ILCS 500/30-22). Illinois State University requests that you submit a Certificate of Registration in an approved Apprenticeship and Training Program issued by the Office of Apprenticeship Training, Employer and Labor Services, Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training, with your bid.
This bulletin is the only official source of documents for this bid. Clarifications or modifications to drawings or specifications will be posted via addendum. To give questions appropriate consideration and to give bidders time to respond to the resulting clarifications, the University requires that all questions be submitted no later than 4:30pm January 15, 2019 to Corey W. Leslie at cwlesli@ilstu.edu
This bid includes an aspirational BEP goal of 20% . Only vendors who have been certified by the bid deadline can contribute to the goal for purposes of responsiveness. A directory of certified BEP vendors is located at: https://cms.diversitycompliance.com/
Subcontractors must meet the same requirements as prime contractors to do work at Illinois State University.
All responses must include:
- Sealed envelopes containing the bids have the bid number and project title on the envelope.
- Bid security (see complete bid for details).
- A letter from a surety company in substantially the form set forth in the Instructions to Bidders assuring the issuance of the performance and payment bonds.
- There is a BEP goal for this procurement. See solicitation documentation for details.
