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-0086-C03
Contract Name:                    Health & Safety Work
District:                                 Trenton
County:                                 Mercer
No. of Schools:                    3 (Grant E.S., Munoz Rivera, Grace Dunn)
Estimated Package Cost:    $ 11,201,934

Brief description of work: Masonry repairs, re-point, clean and sealing. Door repairs, replacements, new hardware. Painting/lay ceilings some areas. New corridor and common area lighting, exit signs, emergency lights & occupancy controls, panel replacements, new panels. New boilers, support equipment, unit ventilators, exhaust fans, duct work, hydronic piping, fan coil units. Asbestos work including boilers, pipe work, unit ventilators, VAT.

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 Trades or required to engage a subcontractor classified in the following DPMC Specialty Trades if not possessed by the General Contractor:

HVAC:                      C039
Plumbing:              C030
Electrical:              C047
Asbestos Removal/Treatment:     C092

Bids will be received until December 13, 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:       November 19, 2002
Pre-Bid Time:       1:00 PM (local time)
Pre-Bid Place:      Trenton BOE (maintenance shop)
                               255 North Clinton Avenue
                               Trenton, NJ 08609
                               609-989-2832

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

Heery International, Inc.
50 W. State Street, Ste 1000
Trenton, NJ 08608
609-392-29222

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”.