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: Maria Povacz for construction of the following work:

Contract No.:                        NT-0004-C01
Contract Name:                    Addition/Alterations
District:                                 Passaic
County:                                 Passaic
No. of Schools:                    1 (Mario L. Drago)
Estimated Package Cost:    $ 11,952,289

Brief description of work: Modular construction addition of approx. 56,360 sf, conventional construction addition of approx. 4,350 sf and renovations in existing school of approx. 10,000 sf.

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
Prefabricated Buildings:   C089

-OR-
Prefabricated Contractor with a DPMC Classification of C089 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 Prefabricated Contractor:

General Contractor:   C006 or C008 or C009
HVAC:                 C039
Plumbing:           C030
Electrical:           C047

Bids will be received until December 23, 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 15, 2002
Pre-Bid Time:       9:00 AM (local time)
Pre-Bid Place:      Mario L. Drago
                               18 Belmont Place
                               Passaic, NJ 07102

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

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

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”.