Renovation of an educational facility in Wilmington, North Carolina. Completed plans call for the renovation of a educational facility.

New Hanover County Schools invites qualified contractors to bid on the Wall Panels at Rachel Freeman School of Engineering. This project will be bid and awarded in accordance with Code of Federal Regulations, Uniform Guidance, 2 C.F.R. Part 200, "sealed bid" procedure; NCGS 143-131, Informal Bidding Procedures; and all local policies. This is an ESSER funded project. The project consists of: installing metal panels over the exterior brick at select high wall locations at Rachel Freeman School of Engineering. Licensed General Contractors must have a minimum of five (5) years of experience on competitively bid publicly funded construction projects e.g. City, County, State or School Systems. The Design Consultant and a representative from New Hanover County Schools will be available at that time to answer questions concerning the project. Questions after that time shall be submitted in writing to the Design Consultant REI Engineers to Kevin Burch (kburch@reiengineers.com) and 2708-A Exchange Drive, Wilmington, NC 28405 or to Leanne Lawrence (Leanne.lawrence@nhcs.net), Director of Facility Planning & Construction, New Hanover County Schools 6410 Carolina Beach Road Wilmington, North Carolina 28412. Bid Security not required for this contract. Performance and Material Payment Bonds not required for this contract. New Hanover County Schools has a verifiable ten percent (10%) goal for participation by minority businesses in the total value of the work. Bidders are required on school construction and renovation projects to make a "good faith effort" to meet this goal. Bidders shall identify on its bid the minority businesses that it will use on the project. Bidders shall submit along with the bid an affidavit listing the "good faith efforts" it has made pursuant to Section I - Information for Bidders, Article I-8, Minority Participation, and the total dollar value of the bid that will be performed by the minority businesses. A bidder that performs all of the work under the contract with its own workforce may submit an affidavit to that effect in lieu of the aforementioned affidavit otherwise required under this subsection. BUDGET ESTIMATE $50,000-$55,000 New Hanover County Schools reserves the right to reject any and all bids for sound documented reason, waive informalities and irregularities in bidding. *The value for this project is based on a financial range. The value is listed as the highest possible cost from the range provided by a stakeholder or official project document.