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

As of December 8, 2023, this project has not yet been awarded. A timeline for award has not yet been established. Provide all labor, material, equipment, and services necessary to complete work for the Fire Separation Remediation project, and renovation work to the building in order meet or exceed the latest life safety codes at Watterson Towers, on the campus of Illinois State University. A portion of this project will be the renovation of all showers that are adjacent to the pipe riser shafts. The work will be performed in phases, first phase summer 2024, second phase fall/winter 2024 and third phase summer 2025. This will be bid as a single-prime contract with all scopes of work falling under the General Contractor. 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 November 29th, 2023 to Jackie Gunderson at jnmaste@ilstu.edu. 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. The contract(s) for this solicitation could exceed $50,000 annually. A list of University-supplied NIGP commodity codes has been included in Part III of this solicitation's BEP Utilization Plan. Per the Utilization Plan's 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 Plan's 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 University's discretion.