Public Higher Education Bulletin

The Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University Carbondale hereby requests sealed bids for construction work on the installation of fire alarm system project (Bid # E-13375-6729M).

Southern Illinois University Carbondale is wishing to receive bids to furnish all material, labor and equipment to install a fire alarm system in Thompson Point Residence Halls located on the Carbondale Campus.

The project generally consists of work in Thompson Point Resident Housing buildings necessary to provide a working addressable fire alarm system and to remove the existing fire alarm components.

This system will communicate with an existing remote graphic annunciator, interface workstations located at the Physical Plant Facilities Operations Center. The equipment located at the Facilities Operation Center will be modified to graphically annunciate and communicate with the new fire alarm systems located at Thompson Point.

Bids will be received up to the hour of 2:00 PM local time, on Thursday, December 13, 2001. Immediately after closing time for receiving bids, they will be opened publicly and read.

All bids must include:

• Bid security (see complete bid for details)
• All bidders must submit a PC-2 form as required by the Illinois Department of Human Rights.

A mandatory pre-bid conference is scheduled for this project at the Physical Plant Conference Room on Tuesday, December 4, 2001 at 10:00 a.m CST. All contractors wishing to submit a bid MUST be present.

(Submitted by Pamela Brandt, State Purchasing Officer.)