Public Higher Education Bulletin

First published Monday July 9, 2007

Project Description
This project includes replacing the roofs at 300 Goodwin and 1113 and 1115 Green Street Apartments with a fully adhered 60 ml. rubber roof over rigid insulation. The Goodwin roof is a Ballasted rubber roof installed in 1990 and the Green Street Apartment roof is the original Bur of 1948. Total square footage is 10,000.

Division 26 - Roofing Work

Sealed bids will be accepted at the address below until 2:00 PM, Thursday August 9, 2007:

The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
c/o Facilities & Services
1501 S. Oak Street
Attn: Dave Marker (dmarker@uiuc.edu)
Champaign, IL 61820

Bid Document Sources
Bid documents have been prepared by Gorski Reifsteck Architects, 909 Arrow Road, Champaign, IL 61821, ph. 217-351-4100, the professional services consultant. The bid documents may be obtained from them by depositing a check in the amount of $75 for each set, payable to them OR non-cash plan deposit programs which are guaranteed by contractor associations are acceptable.

Bid Document Review Sets
For a complete list, please see the attached file.

Prequalification
Each bidder shall prequalify with the owner in accordance with the General Instructions to Bidders (Document 00200).

All bidders shall be prequalified with the owner. New bidders that are not prequalified shall prequalify using the owner's web-based Contractor Annual Prequalification System (CAPS)- http://przm.apps.uillinois.edu/

The project will be administered using the owner's web-based project management system. PRZM was developed to maximize the potential of the Internet in allowing project team members to access and exchange project information. PRZM supports team collaboration in management and interaction, as well as team member empowerment on a multi-layer security system.

Minimum PRZM user requirements are as follows:

• Personal Computer: Microprocessor speed of 100mhz or higher, 32Mb RAM, and a monitor capable of at least 800 x 600 pixel resolution.
• Internet Browser: Microsoft Internet Explorer version 4.0 or higher is recommended.
• E-mail: PRZM requires the user to have a valid e-mail account.
• Software: At various stages of PRZM, users will be required to attach their documents to PRZM.
• Computer-Aided Drawing (CAD) viewer

Pre-Bid Meeting
A pre-bid meeting will be held in Room 136 at Daniels Hall, 1010 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL at 11:30 a.m. prevailing time on July 26, 2007. Representatives of the owner and the professional services consultant will be present to answer questions regarding the project and bidding procedures. All prospective bidders are urged to attend.

Bid Opening
Immediately after the closing time for receiving bids, all proposals will be publicly opened, read, and tabulated in Room 143 at Facilities & Services, 1501 S. Oak St., Champaign, IL. Noted errors, omissions and defects will be announced. Bids received after closing time will be returned unopened. The public opening and reading is for information only and is not construed as acceptance or rejection of any bid.

Bid Acceptance or Rejection
The owner reserves the right to reject any or all bids or any part thereof, to waive any informalities in the bidding, and to accept the bids deemed to be in the best interests of the owner after all bids have been examined and evaluated.

Statutory Requirements
The successful bidder will be required to comply with all laws, statutes, regulations, ordinances, rulings or enactments of any governmental authority that are applicable to the work or to the project. The successful bidder shall pay prevailing wages and shall utilize equal employment opportunity hiring practices in connection with this project.