Sealed bid proposals will be received by the Director of Contract Procurement of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (“NJEDA”) at their offices at One W. State Street, Trenton, NJ 08625, second floor, for construction of the following work:

Contract No.:                        HS-0056-C01
Contract Name:                    Health & Safety Work
District:                                 East Orange
County:                                 Essex
No. of Schools:                     2 (East Orange H.S., Hart Middle School)
Estimated Package Cost:    $ 3,450,000

Brief description of work: Life safety and building envelope restoration.

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

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 NJEDA in the following trade(s):

General Contractor with a DPMC Classification of C008 or C009 who will be required to also have the following DPMC Specialty Trades or required to engage a subcontractor classified in the following DPMC Specialty Trades if not possessed by the General Contractor:

Roofing-Built Up:       C070
Electrical:                   C047

Bids will be received until June 4, 2002 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:       May 21, 2002
Pre-Bid Time:       10:00 AM (local time)
Pre-Bid Place:      Hart Middle           School (front lobby)
                             116 Hamilton Street
                             East Orange, NJ 07019

Plans and specifications may be inspected or obtained for a deposit of $100.00 for each set of documents, during regular business hours, from:

EI Associates
8 Ridgedale Avenue
Cedar Knolls, NJ 07927
973-775-7777

Deposits shall be made payable to the NJEDA.

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 NJEDA reserves the right to waive any non-material defects or to reject any or all bids.

For further information on NJEDA, please visit us at “www.njeda.com”.