Sealed bid proposals will be received by the New Jersey Schools Development Authority (“NJSDA”) at their offices listed below for the following work:

Contract No.:                        ET-0089-C01
Contract Name:                    New Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School
District:                                 Greater Egg Harbor Regional
County:                                 Atlantic
No. of Schools:                     1 (Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School)
CCE :                                      $65,350,000

Brief description of work: New 190,400 GSF high school for 1,092 students on a 66 acre rural site. New school to include 24 classrooms, 2 art rooms, 2 music rooms, 6 science labs, 3 SE rooms, 4 PE stations, 6 various other teaching stations and media center, auditorium, cafeteria and administration offices. The structure is a 2-story steel frame and masonry veneer and EPDM membrane roofing and aluminum windows and doors and a geothermal ground-source HVAC system. The site requires approximately 60 acres to be cleared to develop new enrance drives, parking lots and athletic fields including all new utilities and a geothermal well field. The project includes provisions for educational technology and furniture and DCA required Homeland Security Standards.

This work will be bid and constructed as a single overall contract (one lump sum for all trades).

This contract will be subject to the terms of a PROJECT LABOR AGREEMENT. The PROJECT LABOR AGREEMENT will be included in the contract and is available at the NJSDA web site www.njsda.gov.

Bid proposals for the above work will be received from bidders registered with the Division of Revenue and Department of Labor, and classified by the Department of Treasury, Division of Property Management and Construction and the NJSDA in the following trade(s):

General Contractor with a DPMC Classification of C006 or C008 who will be required to also have the following DPMC Specialty Trade(s) or required to engage a subcontractor classified in the following DPMC Specialty Trade(s) if not possessed by the General Contractor:

Structural Steel:                 C029
HVAC:                           C039
Plumbing:                  C030
Electrical:                  C047

Bid proposals must list the names of the firms who meet the above classification(s).

Bids will be received until May 29, 2008 at 2:00 PM (local time) at which time the bids will be publicly opened and the lump sum base bid price submitted by each bidder will be read. Any bid proposal received after this date and time will be returned unopened.

A mandatory pre-bid conference will be held as follows:

Pre-Bid Date:       April 21, 2008
Pre-Bid Time:       2:00 PM (local time)
Pre-Bid Place:      Oakcrest High School Multi-Purpose Room
                              1824 Dr. Dennis Forman Drive
                              Mays Landing, NJ

ANY FIRMS THAT ATTENDED THE APRIL 15, 2008 MANDATORY PRE-BID CONFERENCE DO NOT NEED TO ATTEND THE APRIL 21, 2008 MANDATORY PREBID CONFERENCE. PLEASE NOTE, THE PROJECT RATING PROPOSALS STILL NEED TO BE SUBMITTED BY APRIL 22, 2008.

In addition to the mandatory pre-bid conference, all bidders that attended the April 21, 2008 pre-bid on this project will be required to complete a project rating evaluation form and submit the completed Project Rating Proposal (PRP) evaluation form by 5:00 PM (local time) on April 24, 2008 to James McElhenny at the below NJSDA address:

If U.S. Mail:
NJSDA
P.O. Box 991
Trenton, New Jersey 08625-0991
If Fed Ex, UPS, Courier, Hand Delivery:

NJSDA 1 West State Street First Floor (Wachovia Bank Building) Trenton, NJ 08625-0991

Copies of the Project Rating Proposal forms are available from the PMF/CM or the NJSDA at the Pre-Bid meeting.

Plans and specifications may be inspected or obtained as of April 15, 2008 for a non-refundable fee of $750.00 for each set of documents, during regular business hours, from:

Greyhawk
224 Strawbridge Drive
Suite 100
Moorestown, New Jersey 08057
856-722-1800

Checks shall be made payable to the NJSDA.

Bidders are required to comply with the requirements of P.L. 1975, c. 127 (N.J.A.C. 17:27), pertaining to affirmative action and equal employment opportunity.

The NJSDA requires the contractor to provide opportunities to SBE firms to participate in the performance of this engagement, consistent with NJSDA’s SBE Set-Aside Goals of 25% (5% to Category 4, 10% to Category 5, and the remaining 10% to be allocated among Category 4 and/or Category 5). To be registered in Category 4, a business must have gross revenues that do not exceed $1 million. To be registered in Category 5, a business must have gross revenues exceeding $1 million. The Small Business Administration size standards are established at 13 C.F.R. 121.201.

The NJSDA will not permit a firm engaged by the NJSDA as a project management firm (“PMF”) or construction management firm ("CM") to bid as a prime or act as a sub-contractor for this NJSDA managed project. Subconsultants to the PMFs/CMs are prohibited from working as primes or subcontractors in the region(s) for which they are on a PMF/CM team.

In addition to all other requirements listed above, the NJSDA requires all subcontractors of any tier in the DPMC Trade Classifications listed below whose contract is in an amount which is equal to or greater than $500,000 be pre-qualified by the NJSDA.

C006 - CM as Constructor
C007 - Design Build
C008 - General Contractor
C009 - GC/Alterations & Additions
C019 - Concrete/Foundation/Footings/Masonry work
C021 - Demolition
C029 - Structural Steel
C030 - Plumbing
C039 - HVAC
C045 - Sprinkler Systems
C047 - Electrical
C066 - Roofing-Membrane EPDM
C067 - Roofing-Membrane PVC/CPE/CSPE
C068 - Roofing-Membrane Modified Bitumen
C069 - Roofing-Urethane
C070 - Roofing-Built Up
C071 - Roofing-Metal
C072 - Roofing-Tile/Slate/Shingles
C092 - Asbestos Removal/Treatment
C093 - Asbestos Removal/Mechanical
C096 - Lead Paint Abatement

For further information on NJSDA, please visit us at “www.njsda.gov”.
DATE ADVERTISED: April 4, 2008