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

Contract No.:                        HS-0094-C03
Contract Name:                    Health & Safety Upgrades
District:                                 Irvington
County:                                 Essex
No. of Schools:                    1 (Berkley Terrace)
Estimated Package Cost:    $ 2,525,553

Brief description of work: Masonry repiars, door replacement, refurbishing of windows including balances and shoes, fire & smoke detection upgrade, replace packaged air cooled AC units and electrical upgrades.

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:

Plumbing:           C030
Electrical:              C047

Bids will be received until October 22, 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:       October 11, 2002
Pre-Bid Time:       2:00 PM (local time)
Pre-Bid Place:      Berkley Terrace School
                               787 Grove Street
                               Irvington, NJ 07111

Plans and specifications may be inspected or obtained for a deposit of $150.00 for each set of documents, during regular business hours, from:

Parsons Brinckerhoff+3D/International
2 Gateway Center, Floor 18
Newark, NJ 07102
973-565-4822

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”.