Project Description
Conduct storm sewer installation and parking lot improvements, including pavement removal, earthwork, topsoil replacement, seeding, pavement striping, and traffic control for Illinois State University Parking Lot U-91 Drainage issues.
MANDATORY PRE-BID MEETING:
February 5, 2020 at 10:00 AM local time at:
Purchasing Office
Illinois State University at College Place
100 South Fell Avenue, Suite D
Normal, IL 61790
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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. There will be a site visit immediately following the pre-bid meeting. Both the pre-bid meeting and the site visit are mandatory.
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 February 7, 2020 to Jackie Gunderson at jnmaste@ilstu.edu
A list of potential BEP Certified contractors has been posted as file:
JC190108_BEP_List*
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*Vendor capacity and timely BEP certification should be independently verified by the prime bidder. This list is attached here for the convenience of interested vendors, not as an official or comprehensive list of BEP Certified vendors that are capable of meeting the solicitation requirements at the time of the bid. The list has been created using the commodity codes identified by Illinois State University in the Utilization Plan. Good Faith Effort waiver requests will not be accepted if a prime bidder does not exhaust outreach efforts, as detailed in the Utilization Plan, to BEP certified vendors associated with the University-identified commodity codes. For current and official BEP resources go to: https://cms.diversitycompliance.com
Subcontractors must meet the same requirements as prime contractors to do business with Illinois State University.
All responses must include:
- Submit 1 copies of the response as defined in the specifications.
- 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 20 percent BEP goal for this procurement. See solicitation documentation for details.
