- Ms Sebastian Painting, Inc.Chicago, ILAn estimated $0BEP [100% / $0]
Method B
Illinois State University
Bid #MC553655
Invitation for Construction Bid: ISU Watterson North Tower Paint Summer 2026
Award Info Published Monday April 27, 2026
Oosterbaan & Sons Co.Posen, IL
- Amount: An estimated $678,230
Method B
- Terms: An estimated start date of 5/12/2026 through 7/29/2026
- Renewals: None
- Brookdale Decorating, Inc. (subcontractor)BEP [10% / $67,823]
Unsuccessful respondents (1)
Summary
Respondents
2 total
1 successful respondent
1 unsuccessful respondent
1 BEP contractors
0 VBP contractors
0 Small businesses
Buyer for this procurement: Mary Kate Schopp
Chief procurement officer for this procurement: Bridget McHatton
State purchasing officer for this procurement: Constance Ratliff
The University award process may be delayed as this award goes through a state approval process.
This notice has been modified
Published Thursday, March 26, 2026
Addendum #2 has been posted. Please see attached file:
MC553655_Add02.pdf
This notice has been modified
Published Friday, March 20, 2026
The Pre-Bid and Site Visit attendance log has been posted. Please see attached file:
MC553655_Pre-Bid_Attendance.pdf
This notice has been modified
Published Thursday, March 5, 2026
Addendum #1 has been posted. Please see attached file:
MC553655_Add01.pdf
Zoom links for pre-bid meeting and bid opening are included.
First published Wednesday, March 4, 2026
Project Description
In Summer 2026, Illinois State University will need a contractor or contractors to complete a full interior paint of Watterson North Tower during the summer turnover process. Contractor will provide all labor, equipment, and materials (i.e. patching, materials, plaster, primer, finish paint, brushes, rollers, etc.) required to paint all student rooms and residence hall floors noted in schedule. Please refer to the painting schedule attachment. Contractor will submit a bid price for the following: student rooms (defined as any room with a mattress), convector covers and frames, pipe chase doors, stairwells (includes stringers and are inclusive of the base bid of five houses (A, B, C, D, and E)), restroom ceilings, hallways (including associated utility room, and all lounges on all floors), Watterson North tower five houses of student room living space including all hallways, (does not include any side rooms). The suites have an accent wall that shall be painted to match (the wall numbers for the accent walls are 5-12 and 6-8 for the 3rd floor breezeway lounge) for the patching and painting of a room as specified below. All furniture in rooms that will be painted will be moved to the center of the room and covered and replaced by the owner. Owners will also remove dry erase boards from lounges and suites, corner guards and grip-it-strips. All five houses of student rooms will be painted. Only the rooms designated above will have accent walls. Refer to the technical specifications for a detailed breakdown of the base bid and alternate for this project.
Sealed bids will be accepted below until 2:00 PM, Friday, April 3, 2026:
At the following addressPurchasing Office
Illinois State University at Uptown Crossing
1220 Campus Box
100 South Fell Avenue, Suite D
Normal, IL 61790-0000
via E-bidding
Until further notice, ISU is enabling electronic submission of submittals (e-bidding). New electronic submittal regulations and instructions are noted below. We will also be opening this solicitation to accept physical paper submissions from vendors with pending IPG number, or no IPG number.
ISU will continue to maintain and follow all Illinois Procurement Code Regulations and Rules. Any submittals received after the identified due date and time will not be accepted or evaluated.
Either electronic submissions OR paper submissions will be accepted for this solicitation.
IMPORTANT- If electronic submission is preferred, please read the attached E-Bidding instructions for critical information. (E-BiddingVendorInstructions.pdf)
MANDATORY PRE-BID MEETING:
Tuesday, March 17th, 2026 at 10:00 AM local time.
The pre-bid meeting will be virtual using the Zoom app.
The Zoom meeting call in information will be included with an addendum posted with this solicitation.
Mandatory Site Visit- Following the pre-bid meeting, a site visit will be offered on Tuesday, March 17th at 2:00pm. More information about the site visit will be shared during the pre-bid meeting.
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. 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 March 24th, 2026 to Mary Kate Schopp at mkschop@ilstu.edu.
*BEP Utilization Information*
A list of University-supplied NIGP commodity codes has been included in Part III of this solicitation's BEP Utilization Plan. Per the Utilization Plan's instructions, vendors who request a waiver from the goal on the basis of good faith efforts must exhaustively contact each vendor certified with the University-supplied commodity codes and document that contact in the Utilization Plan's Good Faith Efforts Contact Log. Waiver requests cannot be granted without exhausting outreach efforts in accordance with the Utilization Plan. For current and official BEP resources go to: https://cms.diversitycompliance.com.
If the list of University-supplied NIGP commodity codes excludes a code that a prospective respondent or BEP-certified vendor believes should be included with the solicitation, additional codes may be requested and must be submitted by the question deadline for this solicitation. These requests should be made through a commodity code addition form supplied by the University buyer assigned to this solicitation. Email the buyer to obtain this form. If requested, additional University-supplied commodity codes may be added to the Utilization Plan by addendum at the University's discretion.
Subcontractors must meet the same requirements as prime contractors to do business with Illinois State University.
For instructions on how to obtain a comprehensive purchase description, disclosure or contract forms, contact:
Chief Procurement Officer - Bridget McHatton
State Purchasing Officer - Constance Ratliff
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 10 percent BEP goal for this procurement. See solicitation documentation for details.
- The contract(s) for this solicitation could exceed $50,000 annually.
This transaction is subject to the State Board of Elections registration and certification requirements of Public Act 095-0971.
The State of Illinois has a policy to encourage prospective vendors to hire qualified veterans, minorities, females, persons with disabilities and ex-offenders.