Site work for an educational facility in Normal, Illinois. Completed plans call for site work for a educational facility.

Provide fiber optic connectivity upgrades at University Farm in Lexington - 25578 ISU Farm Lane, Lexington, IL 61753 (Chenoa & Lexington Townships). Provide all labor, material, equipment, and services necessary to place a fiber optic backbone for high connectivity to multiple locations on the property. All new fiber routes must be locatable by ISU personnel once installed. Seven separate locations, as shown in the drawings, to have single mode fiber installed, tested, and terminated. Two locations will have copper locations installed, tested, and terminated. All work must have positive test results must be given Illinois State University project manager to be distributed to ISU technical staff. Work to include coordination of IT infrastructure systems, equipment and materials installation with ISU electricians and Information Technology staff. In response to COVID-19, until further notice, ISU is enabling electronic submission of submittals (e-bidding). New electronic submittal regulations and instructions are noted below. We will also be opening this solicitation to accept physical paper submissions from vendors with pending IPG number, or no IPG number. ISU will continue to maintain and follow all Illinois Procurement Code Regulations and Rules. Any submittals received after the identified due date and time will not be accepted or evaluated. Either electronic submissions OR paper submissions will be accepted for this solicitation. IMPORTANT- If electronic submission is preferred, please read the attached E-Bidding instructions for critical information. (E-BiddingVendorInstructions.pdf) This bulletin is the only official source of documents for this bid. Clarifications or modifications to drawings or specifications will be posted via addendum. To give questions appropriate consideration and to give bidders time to respond to the resulting clarifications, the University requires that all questions be submitted no later than 4:30pm December 9, 2022 to Jackie Gunderson at jnmaste@ilstu.edu. Subcontractors must meet the same requirements as prime contractors to do business with Illinois State University. All responses must include: Submit 1 copies of the response as defined in the specifications. Sealed envelopes containing the bids have the bid number and project title on the envelope. Bid security (see complete bid for details). A letter from a surety company in substantially the form set forth in the Instructions to Bidders assuring the issuance of the performance and payment bonds. There is a 30 percent BEP goal for this procurement. See solicitation documentation for details. The contract(s) for this solicitation could exceed $50,000 annually. This transaction is subject to the State Board of Elections registration and certification requirements of Public Act 095-0971.