The Public Building Commission of Chicago will be accepting sealed bids from experienced and financially responsible contractors to bid as a General Contractor on the following project:

Sealed Bids, subject to the conditions contained in the contract documents, will be receive and must be time stamped no later than 2:00pm on Wednesday, June 29, 2011 and then opened and publicly read aloud, for furnishing all materials and performing all Work for:
Contract No. 1527
William Jones College Preparatory High School
700 South State Street
New Construction
Project #05265

This Contract is subject to the Illinois Prevailing Wage Act (820 ILCS 130/1-12).

Construction Budget:
$78,000,000.00 (excluding Allowances and Commission's Contingency Funds).

Bid Deposit:
Bids must be accompanied by a Bid Deposit in the amount of: 5% of bid. The guarantee shall be made by bid bond, certified check or cashier's check payable to the order of the Public Building Commission of Chicago. No bid will be considered unless it is accompanied by the required guarantee. Cash deposits will not be accepted.

MBE/WBE Contract Goals:
24% MBE and 4% WBE.

Issue for Bid Documents:
Contract documents available for purchase from Best Imaging Solutions, 20 E. Randolph, Chicago, IL, and telephone: 312-357-9050 beginning on 5/25/2011 after 2:00PM.

Online Plan room website: http://www.DrawingDepot.com/BestImaging?PBC

Registered Full Set Plan Holders defined as: Bidders (including joint ventures) that have purchased a full set of plans by no later than close of business on Thursday, June 2, 2011.

A printed copy of the Contract Documents will be available to review at receptionist desk at the Public Building Commission of Chicago, Richard J. Daley Center, 50 W. Washington Street, Room CL16, Chicago, Illinois 60602.

Pre-Bid Conference:
A pre-bid conference to be held at 10:00AM on Friday, June 3, 2011 at the Richard J. Daley Center, 50 West Washington Street, in room CL115 located on the concourse level.

Mandatory Technical Review Meeting:
All registered full set Plan Holders are required to attend the mandatory technical review meeting which will be held at 10:00am on Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at the Richard J. Daley Center, 50 West Washington Street, in room CL115 located on the concourse level.

Bids submitted by contractors who have not properly registered and attended the mandatory technical review meeting will not be considered.

An authorized representative of each registered full set plan holder must be present and must sign the Mandatory Technical Review Meeting attendance sheet no later than 15 minutes after the scheduled start of the meeting. Bidders that do not sign-in by 10:15AM will not be permitted to bid.

Note: Only registered full set Plan Holders who attend the Mandatory Technical Review will be eligible to bid.

Bid Opening:
Sealed bids, must be delivered by or before 2:00pm (CST) on Wednesday, June 29, 2011 to the attention of Janice Meeks, Public Building Commission of Chicago, Richard J. Daley Center, 50 W. Washington Street, Room 200, Chicago, IL 60602.

Contact/Request for Information (RFI):
Sole point of contact: Janice Meeks-Manager of Procurement Every request for interpretation must be made in writing, by email to janicemeeks@cityofchicago.org and/or addressed to the Public Building Commission of Chicago 50 West Washington Street Chicago, Illinois 60602, ATTENTION: Janice Meeks, Manager of Procurement. The PBC's deadline for questions and RFI's is 12:00pm on June 20, 2011. Every interpretation or revision will be in the form of an addendum to the Contract Documents and, when issued will be on file in the office of the PBC and posted below.

The Public Building Commission reserves the right to reject any and all bids when such rejection is determined to be in the best interest of the PBC.

Addendum (Download 1-3):

• Addendum 1 (6/15/11).
  
  • Site Logistics Plan SL-100 (4/29/11).
  • Caisson Reinforcement Shop Drawings no. RA1-01 and RA1-02.
  • Limited Subsurface Investigation Report.
  • Phase I Environmentatl Site Assessment Report.
• Addendum 2 (6/20/11).
  
  • Spec 00110 Table of Contents (8 pages).
  • Spec 13150 Competition Swimming Pool and Equipment (48 pages).
• Addendum 3 (6/23/11).
  
  • Spec 01510 Commission representatives Field Office.
  • ERS-4 Earthwork Retention Sequence.
  • Planned Site Work Activity Schedule.