Invitation for Construction Bid: GC Multi-Year Contract for Various Projects

A mandatory pre-bid conference, for all those interested in bidding the project, will be held on September 22, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. prevailing time in the Supporting Services Building. Representatives of the University will be present to answer questions regarding the project and bidding procedures. All prospective bidders are required to attend. All representatives must be in the conference room of the Supporting Services by 10:05 and must stay for the entire meeting. All contractors are required to sign in. If contractor is late or leaves before the completion of the meeting, the contractor will not be considered attending the pre-bid conference.

Construction projects may involve buildings, utility systems, and other structures, including one or more of the divisions of work as defined by the Construction Specifications Institute Master Format. The price for individual projects to be accomplished through these contracts will be under the State of Illinois small purchase limit for construction, currently $100,000. The University or a University-authorized architect/engineer firm will develop a scope of work for each project, solicit multiple quotes from the contractors awarded this bid, and the University will issue a fixed-price order with a specific completion date for each project. The University reserves the right to award multiple orders for all work to ensure timely delivery of work and best price. Multiple contracts will be issued for the Facilities Management Department's use. SIUE also reserves the right to receive quotes for projects under the formal bid limit from contractors not awarded this project.

All resulting contracts issued against this bid will have required terms to provide full compliance with Illinois Public Act 96-0795, http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=096-0795 . These terms will apply to the awarded contractor and their subcontractors and include but are not limited to disclosure of financial interests, annual certifications and filing of subcontracts.

Bidders who have not completed and returned their prequalification statement which is valid for the period January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2025, will be required to prequalify in accordance with the bidding contract provision - Document PQ00250 Prequalification Documents. Firms may verify their prequalification status by contacting Teresa Shipton at (618) 650-3384. The prequalification document will be due at the SIUE Purchasing Office by 2:00pm, October 06, 2025. Bids will not be accepted from contractors who have not submitted and received approval of the SIUE Prequalification Statement. The 2025 SIUE Prequalification Documents may be downloaded on the Bulletin under RFI 2025SIUEPrequal. Prequalification statements will be required every year.

In addition to completing SIUE's prequalification statement, all bidders may qualify to submit bids to state universities of Illinois only if they are a legal entity authorized to do business in Illinois prior to submitting the bid. All first-tier subcontractors also meet this requirement. This applies to both in-state and out-of-state firms.

All questions must be e-mailed to Teresa Shipton, tshipto@siue.edu, by September 24, 2025, 12:00 p.m. CDT. Questions submitted after this date may not receive a response. Answers to all questions will be addressed in the form of an addendum and will be posted on the Illinois Higher Education Bulletin website, www.procure.stateuniv.state.il.us. Questions should not be addressed to any other SIUE representative. If contact of any kind occurs with any other representative, this will be grounds for disqualification.

The successful bidder will be required to comply with all laws, statutes, regulations, ordinances, rulings or enactments of any governmental authority which are applicable to the work or to the project. The successful bidder shall pay current prevailing wage rates as posted on the Illinois Department of Labor's website and shall utilize equal employment opportunity hiring practices in connection with this project. The University reserves the right to reject any and all bids.

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 30 percent BEP goal for this procurement. See solicitation documentation for details.
  
• There is a 3 percent Veteran-owned business goal for this procurement. See solicitation documentation for details.
  
• The contract(s) for this solicitation could exceed $50,000 annually.