Sealed bid proposals will be received by the New Jersey Schools Construction Corporation (“NJSCC”) at their offices at One W. State Street, Second Floor, Trenton, NJ 08625, Attention: Maria Povacz for the following work:

Contract No.:                        HS-0111-C02
Contract Name:                    General Construction
District:                                 Millville
County:                                 Cumberland
No. of Schools:                    1 (R.D. Wood)
Estimated Package Cost:    $ 929,999

Brief description of work: Interior lighting to be upgraded to meet DOE standards, upgrade the exterior emergency and aggress lighting system and replace the existing fire alarm/detection system with a new code compliant addressable system. Replace all interior doors & hardware. Replace exterior stair treads.

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

Electrical:               C047

-OR-
Electrical Contractor with a DPMC Classification of C047 who will be required to also have the following DPMC Specialty Trade or required to engage a subcontractor classified in the following DPMC Specialty Trade if not possessed by the Electrical 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 March 17, 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:       February 11, 2003
Pre-Bid Time:       3:00 PM (local time)
Pre-Bid Place:      R.D. Wood School
                               700 Archer Street
                               Millville, NJ 08332

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

URS Corporation
340 Scotch Road
Trenton, NJ
609-883-5444

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.njscc.com”.