Renovation of an educational facility in River Falls, Wisconsin. Completed plans call for the renovation of a educational facility.

enovation of an educational facility in River Falls, Wisconsin. Completed plans call for the renovation of a 132,400-square-foot, three-story above grade educational facility. In general the work consists of of abatement and demolition of the existing Hagestad building, work at the existing chiller plant, a new 3-story Science and Technology Innovation Center and associated site work, housing teaching labs, research labs, offices, non-classroom learning spaces, and a University-Business 42 Collaboration Center (UBC) of approximately 132,400 square feet (square footage includes a Mechanical Penthouse). The MEP Subcontractor scope of work is identical to the General Prime Contractor scope of work included in these bidding and contract documents. By submitting and signing a bid, all bidders have examined all of the Bidding Documents listed in the Table of Contents of the project specifications. The successful bidders will be required to do all work which is shown on the drawings, mentioned in the specifications, or reasonably implied as necessary to complete the division of work bid for this project. State of Wisconsin, Department of Administration (DOA), Division of Facilities Development, 17 hereinafter termed DFD. 18 19 All potential bidders must be certified by DOA prior to submitting bids on state construction 20 projects over $50,000. All bids received from contractors who are not certified will be rejected. Contractor 21 certification applications and instructions for completing the form may be obtained from the DOA Website 22 DFD Contractor Certification page. upon request from DFD-- email dfdcertification@wisconsin.gov. 24 25 This project is being let using the single prime bidding and contracting process. DFD will publicly bid the 26 applicable mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection (MEP) divisions of work first. Within 5 27 days of the MEP bid opening, DFD will identify a lowest, qualified, responsible, certified bidder in each 28 applicable MEP division of work. These successful MEP bids must be included in all general prime 29 contractor bids received. No later than 5 days after DFD identifies the successful MEP bids, DFD will 30 publicly open general prime contractor bids. General prime contractor bids that do not include the 31 successful MEP bids will be rejected. The state will enter into a single contract with the lowest, qualified, 32 responsible, certified general prime contractor and this general prime contractor will enter into subcontracts 33 with the successful MEP bidders. 34 35 Sealed bids will be received as follows, before the time indicated above: 36 o PDF scanned file of all required bid documents, including bid and bid bond forms with 37 original wet signatures or properly transmitted electronic signatures (only PDF files will be 38 accepted) emailed to doadfdmbidsubmission@wisconsin.gov (this is the preferred method); 39 o US Mail or Third-party delivery (UPS, Fedex, or DHL) to State of Wisconsin, Administration Building, 7 th 40 Floor, 101 East Wilson Street, Madison, Wisconsin 53703; or 41 o Hand delivery to the drop box labeled. SEALED BIDS ONLY in front of the State of 42 Wisconsin Administration Building located at 101 East Wilson Street, Madison, Wisconsin 43 53703. 44 45 The bidder is responsible for the sealed bid being delivered to the indicated location or email before the 46 time specified for the bid submission. Third party delivery is entirely at the bidder's risk. The conference line will be open at 1:45 P.M. CDT and all bids will be 50 opened after 2:00 P.M. CDT. Bidders may also join the Microsoft Teams meeting via Microsoft Teams: 51 Click here to join 52 53 In general, the work consists of abatement and demolition of the existing Hagestad building, work at the 54 existing chiller plant, a new 3-story Science and Technology Innovation Center and associated site work, A-2 1 housing teaching labs, research labs, offices, non-classroom learning spaces, and a University-Business 2 Collaboration Center (UBC) of approximately 132,400 square feet (square footage includes Mechanical 3 Penthouse). 4 5 CLASS 1 NOTICE: 6 7 Notice is hereby given in accordance with Section 16.855(10), Wisconsin Statutes, that the Division 8 believes it is in the best interests of the State to contract the following work from only one source, 9 without the usual statutory procedures: 10 11 o Section 08 71 00 Door Hardware: Schlage locksets and LCN closers 12 o Section 23 09 24 Direct Digital Control System for HVAC: Johnson Controls 13 o Section 26 56 29 Site Lighting - Lumec (Fixture Types A2, A2-HS, and A5 as scheduled) and 14 Lithonia (Fixture Type B1 as scheduled). 15 o Section 27 41 10 Integrated Audio Visual Systems and Equipment: Extron 16 o Section 28 10 00 Access Control System: Apti-Q/Vanderbilt 17 o Section 28 23 00 Video Surveillance System: Cisco Meraki cameras 18 o Section 28 31 00 Fire Detection and Alarm: Notifier 19 20. Additional project bidding 24 information, including plan holders lists are available on the Division of Facilities Development public 25 website. After opening the web page, 26 select Current Construction Project Bidding Opportunities at the bottom of the screen. Bidder shall identify 27 the division of work they are bidding on when requesting Bidding Documents online. No deposit is 28 required to obtain documents for bidding purposes. 29 30 Base Bids will be received as a single lump sum bid for: 2) Fire Protection (Fire Suppression); 3) 31 Plumbing; 4) Mechanical (Heating, Ventilating, Air Conditioning); and 5) Electrical. 32 33. The 2017-2019 Wisconsin State Budget (2017 Wisconsin Act 59) repealed Wisconsin's 36 prevailing wage laws. Effective September 23, 2017, state prevailing wage requirements on state 37 building projects no longer apply. These changes take effect for projects advertised for bid after 38 September 23, 2017. This change does not affect the Federal Davis Bacon Act requirements. 39 40. Pay by credit card' parking is available in Parking Lot PAY1, at the corner of Cascade Avenue and 2 nd 42 Street. It is encouraged that Contractors 43 attend. Please contact Leigh Streit, Project Manager, BWBR Architects, 608-829-3284, lstreit@bwbr.com 44 for additional information. 45 46 Bidding Documents will be available online immediately upon the project being advertised for bid.