Renovation of an educational facility in Normal, Illinois. Completed plans call for the renovation of a educational facility.

Provide all labor, material, equipment, and services necessary for the construction of East Campus Chilled Water Decouple Project for Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. This phase consists of providing a new plate and frame heat exchanger in the Vrooman basement to hydraulically decouple Manchester and Hewitt Halls from the central loop, including piping and accessories per the design documents. Work of this agreement will be a single Mechanical contract. 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. Participation in a U.S. Department of labor approved and registered apprenticeship & training program is required on public works by procurement code (30 ilcs 500/30-22). Illinois State University requests that you submit a Certificate of Registration in an approved Apprenticeship and Training Program issued by the Office of Apprenticeship Training, Employer and Labor Services, Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training, with your bid. 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 April 18th, 2023 to Jackie Gunderson at jnmaste@ilstu.edu. A list of University-supplied NIGP commodity codes has been included in Part III of this solicitations BEP Utilization Plan. Per the Utilization Plans instructions, vendors who request a waiver from the goal on the basis of good faith efforts must exhaustively contact each vendor certified with the University-supplied commodity codes and document that contact in the Utilization Plans Good Faith Efforts Contact Log. Waiver requests cannot be granted without exhausting outreach efforts in accordance with the Utilization Plan. If the list of University-supplied NIGP commodity codes excludes a code that a prospective respondent or BEP-certified vendor believes should be included with the solicitation, additional codes may be requested and must be submitted by the question deadline for this solicitation. These requests should be made through a commodity code addition form supplied by the University buyer assigned to this solicitation. Email the buyer to obtain this form. If requested, additional University-supplied commodity codes may be added to the Utilization Plan by addendum at the Universitys discretion. Subcontractors must meet the same requirements as prime contractors to do business with Illinois State University. Chief Procurement Officer - John Donato State Purchasing Officer - Constance Ratliff 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. Pre bid meeting info The mandatory pre-bid meeting will be hosted virtually, using the Zoom app. You are invited to a Zoom meeting: When: Tuesday, April 11th, 2023 10:00 AM Register in advance for this meeting: https://illinoisstate.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcudeChqDIiE9L4lz7ntga4_E8XKfRQ9WoH After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.