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

Contract No.:                        HU-0002-C01
Contract Name:                    New Middle School
District:                                 West New York
County:                                 Hudson
No. of Schools:                     1 (West New York Middle School)
Estimated Package Cost:    $ 29,300,000

Brief description of work: New construction of 153,000 sf middle school with renovations of an 18,000 sf adjacent existing building and sitework.

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 NJEDA in the following trade(s):

General Contractor with a DPMC Classification of C008 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:

Structural Steel:       C029
HVAC:                       C039
Plumbing:                C030
Electrical:                C047

Bids will be received until July 2, 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:       June 11, 2002
Pre-Bid Time:       11:00 AM (local time)
Pre-Bid Place:      Coviello Recreation Center
                              57th Street and Broadway
                              West New York, NJ

Plans and specifications may be inspected or obtained for a deposit of $300.00 for each set of documents, during regular business hours, from:

Bovis Lend Lease
744 Broad Street
Suite 1420
Newark, NJ 07102
973-353-8800

Deposits shall be made payable to the NJEDA.

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

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