Excavation, Remediation, Site Work, Parking Areas and Superstructure WorkNew Kennedy King College Campus63rd & Halsted

Project: Excavation, Remediation, Site Work, Parking Areas and Superstructure Work for six new campus buildings at the New Kennedy King College Campus.

Bid Opening:Sealed responses shall be submitted and received at the Public Building Commission, Richard J. Daley Center, 50 West Washington, Room 200 until 10:00 a.m. June 22, 2004, and then and there publicly opened. Opening date has changed.

Pre-Bid Meeting:A pre-bid meeting will be held Thursday, April 29, 2004, 10:00 a.m. 2nd Floor Board Room, Richard J. Daley Center, 50 West Washington. Attendance at the pre-bid meeting is strongly encouraged for all proposers. When attending a meeting in the Daley Center allow for extra time to pass through the building’s security screening.

Networking Session: Immediately following the Pre-Bid Meeting a Networking Session will be held on the 2nd Floor of the Richard J. Daley Center.

Contract Documents: Copies of the forms of Contract Documents including the Instructions to Bidders, General Conditions, Special Conditions and Specifications are on file at Cushing Color and Company, Att: Dave Novak, 312-266-8228.

Questions: All questions regarding this contract must be submitted in writing to Janice Meeks, Contract Administrator, Public Building Commission, 66 West Washington, Room 200, Chicago, IL 60602. Questions may also be faxed to Ms. Meeks at 312/744-3572.

Bid Deposit: A bid deposit of $3,500,000 is required. The deposit must be accompanied by a bid bond provided by a surety company authorized to business in the State of Illinois, or a cashier’s or certified check made payable to the Public Building Commission of Chicago.

Administrative Fee An administrative fee of $5,000 is required. This fee must be in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to the Public Building Commission of Chicago.

Licensing Requirements: All bidders must comply with all licensing requirements including the new General Contractor License from the City of Chicago Department of Buildings.

MBE/WBE Participation:Attention is called to special conditions specifying that a percentage of the work be performed by Minority-owned and Women-owned Business Enterprises and the award criteria provision for utilizing minorities and women in the project work force and residency requirements.

The agencies at this link are available to assist in identifying sub-contractors:

The PBC will not accept bids that are not accompanied by the appropriate form of bid deposit and administrative fee. Bids received after the announced date and time for the bid opening will not be accepted.

Bids must be submitted on documents provided by the PBC.

The Public Building Commission of Chicago reserves the right to reject any or all bids, and to waive any informalities in the bidding.

Firms Attending the Pre-Bid Meeting:

• Baptist Landscape
• BEG Trucking
• Benchmark Construction
• B.G.K. Security Service
• Bills Shade & Blind
• Broadway Consolidated
• Castle Construction
• Chicago Drapery & Carpet
• Chicago Spotlight, Inc.
• Christy Webber Landscape
• Community Uplift
• Configuration, Inc.
• Cooper Power
• Divane Bros. Electric Co.
• Designlab Chicago
• Dunigan
• Dynamic Wrecking & Exc.
• E. King Construction
• Evergreen Supply
• FHP Tectonics
• FH Paschen/SN Nielsen
• Fran’s Printing
• Garth Construction
• Gilco Mechanical Contractor
• GreenGrid Greenkoafs
• HAT Gen. Cont.
• HB
• H-M-S
• Hygienetics
• IBC
• Imperial Crane
• Industrial & Environmental
• Johnson Controls
• Lee Butter & Associates
• Louis Jones Enterprises
• Mack Construction
• MBP
• McCabe Associates
• McKele
• McKinnie & Sons
• My Destiny Paint Company
• National Construction & Remediation
• National K-9
• NFL Builders
• Pagoda/Electric
• Peer, Inc.
• Peace Center
• Pollock Construction
• Preon Power
• Property Care Managers
• Ragnar Benson, Inc.
• Resolute
• Reyes Group, Ltd.
• Royal Crane Service
• RV Decorations
• Sevenson Environmental
• Shah Engineering
• Sims Decorating
• South Shore Construction
• Speedy Redi-Mix
• St. Paul Cogic Project Pride
• Stevenson Crane
• Target Group, Inc.
• Tecnica Environmental
• TelePlus
• The Rory Group
• Tolberts Roofing
• Turner Construction
• UBM, Inc.
• United Mechanical, Inc.
• VOTE
• Walsh Construction
• Weston Environ Remediation
• White Way Sign