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, Procurement Project Officer for the following work:

Contract No.:                        HS-0075-C12 RB1
Contract Name:                    Masonry Work
District:                                 Paterson
County:                                 Passaic
No. of Schools:                    1 (PS 4)
Estimated Package Cost:    $ 311,615

Brief description of work: Masonry work, slab repair.

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 C006 or C008 or C009 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:

Concrete/Foundation Footings/Masonry Work:  C019

-OR-
Masonry Contractor with a DPMC Classification of C019 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 Masonry Contractor:

General Contractor:   C006 or C008 or C009

Bid proposals must list the names of the firms who meet the above classifications.

Bids will be received until May 8, 2003 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 22, 2003
Pre-Bid Time:       10:00 AM (local time)
Pre-Bid Place:      PS 4
                             55 Clinton Avenue
                             Paterson, NJ

In addition to the mandatory pre-bid conference, all bidders on this project will be required to complete a project rating evaluation form and submit the completed project rating evaluation form by 2:00 PM (local time) on April 28, 2003 to:

New Jersey Schools Construction Corporation 1 West State Street Second Floor Trenton, NJ 08625 Attention: Kim Banegas
Copies of the project evaluation forms are available from the PMF or the NJSCC.

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

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

Checks 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.njscc.com”.