Renovation of an educational facility in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Working plans call for the renovation of a educational facility.

As of January 11, 2023, bids were canceled. No definite date for the rebid. Question Deadline 10/24/2022 at 5:00 PM CT Vendor questions must be submitted to bids@usm.edu . The University will respond by addenda no later than the following Tuesday, November 1st, 2022. Samples of items when called for must be furnished free of expense and if not destroyed in testing, will, upon request, be returned at the bidders expense. Request for the return of samples must be made within ten (10) days following opening bids. Each individual sample must be labeled with bidders name and manufacturers brand name and number. As a public entity of the state, we use sealed bidding to ensure fair and open competition to ensure no one in the buying organization can influence the bidding process or steer the selection of a particular company by sharing competitive bid information during the solicitation process. Generally, all bids must remain sealed until they are opened publicly at the time stated in the notice advance disclosure of the terms of a bid may be cause for rejection of said bid. Bidders should never send advanced copies of a sealed bid via email or screenshots of electronic bids. Bidders must submit sealed bids to be opened at the time and place stated in the solicitation for the public opening of bids and must not be revealed to the buyer before that time. Bids must be signed and sealed with bidders name and address on the outside of the envelope, and the date and time of the bid opening and the bid file number shown in the lower-left corner of the packages, envelopes, express mailing labels, boxes, etc. The University of Southern Mississippi reserves the right to reject any and all bids, to waive any informality in bids, and unless otherwise specified by the bidders, to accept any items on the bid. If the bidder fails to state the time within which bids must be accepted, it is understood and agreed that The University of Southern Mississippi shall have 90 days to accept. The University of Southern Mississippi reserves the right to make an award to this bid on an all or none basis, or on a line-by-line basis, whichever serves the best interest of The University of Southern Mississippi.