Sealed bid proposals will be received by the New Jersey Schools Construction Corporation (“NJSCC”) at their offices at One W. State Street, Trenton, NJ 08625, second floor, attention: Kim Banegas for construction of the following work:

Contract No.:                        HS-0075-C09
Contract Name:                    Priority 1 Life Safety Improvements
District:                                 Paterson
County:                                 Passaic
No. of Schools:                     1 (E.W. Kilpatrick)
Estimated Package Cost:    $ 319,952

Brief description of work: General construction, doors, masonry, emergency and exit lights, ansul, firestopping.

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 NJSCC 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:

Electrical:                 C047

Bids will be received until December 16, 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:       December 2, 2002
Pre-Bid Time:       10:00 AM (local time)
Pre-Bid Place:      Edward W. Kilpatrick
                              Summer & Ellison Street
                              Paterson, NJ

Plans and specifications may be inspected or obtained for a deposit of $80.00 for each set of documents, during regular business hours, from:

Jacobs Facilities
80 Ward Street
Paterson, New Jersey 07505
973-247-7611

Deposits shall be made payable to the NJSCC.

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

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