This is a service / maintenance or supply contract in Bakersfield, California. Contact the soliciting agency for additional information.

Furnishing all labor and materials for a single Job Order Contract, Bid Solicitation No. 10749, at the above-named campus. This Notice to Contractors is for the award of Job Order Contract (JOC), which is a competitively bid, firm fixed priced, indefinite quantity contract. The Contract scope of work includes a collection of detailed repair and construction tasks and specifications that have established unit prices. It is awarded to the "Contractor" for the accomplishment of repair, alteration, modernization, maintenance, rehabilitation, demolition and construction of infrastructure, buildings, structures, or other real property. The University issues to the Contractor discrete, fixed-price task or job orders, as needed, under the contract. Under the JOC concept, the Contractor furnishes all management, documentation, labor, materials, and equipment needed to perform the work. CSUB intends to award one (1) JOC Agreement, but may award up to three (3) separate JOC Agreements to the three lowest responsible bidders under this solicitation. Each Agreement will have a $0 Minimum Contract Value, and Maximum Contract Value of One Million Dollars ($1,000,000.00) and a term of 12 months commencing on the date of the Notice to Proceed. CSUB reserves the right to increase the maximum amount of each Agreement to Three Million Dollars ($3,000,000), if the need arises. In the event that the contractor submitting the lowest responsive and responsible bid refuses to enter into a contract with the CSU if tendered, or, in the event that the contractor materially breaches the JOC contract necessitating its termination, CSU reserves the right to award a second JOC under the same solicitation, provided such award is made within 120 days of the bid opening. Each bidder offering a proposal must comply with bidding provisions of Article 02.00 et seq. in the Contract General Conditions, and should be familiar with all the provisions of the Contract General Conditions and Supplementary General Conditions. This contract is for public works projects and is subject to prevailing wage rate laws (see Contract General Conditions, Article 04.02). All contractors and all tiers of subcontractors bidding on this project shall register to bid public works projects with the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR), and maintain current this registration pursuant to Labor Code Section 1725.5. It is the bidder's responsibility to advise of your intent to participate in the web conference by emailing Andrew Duncan at aduncan@csub.edu for an email invitation. Attendees of the conference will be confirmed verbally during the pre-bid conference. Electronic copies of the sample bid proposal package, the Unit Price Books, and the Technical Specifications will be distributed to the attendees of the mandatory pre-bid conference. Question Deadline 11/12/2024 at 5:00 PM PT Bidder's questions should be submitted in writing to Andrew Duncan, Contracts Specialist, in the Office of Procurement via email to aduncan@csub.edu. Questions must be submitted. Small Business Preference: The Trustees shall give a small business a bid advantage of five percent to contracting firms that have been certified as a "Small Business" by the Department of General Services, Office of Small Business and DVBE Services, in accordance with Contract General Conditions (and Supplementary General Conditions) for Job Order Contracts, Article 02.10, Small Business Five Percent Bid Advantage. DVBE Incentive: The Trustees REQUIRE the successful bidder to achieve a required minimum of 3% DVBE participation in each construction project under the Job Order Contract as established in the bidding documents. Additionally, the Trustees are granting a bid incentive for evaluation purposes only to bidders that exceed the three (3) percent DVBE participation requirement. The level of DVBE incentive will correlate to the level of participation; that is, the more DVBE participation proposed, the higher the incentive. Bidders must be prequalified with the Trustees. Bidders shall register online to apply for financial prequalification and JOC supplemental prequalification at online. Both prequalification applications are due no less than 10 business days prior to the bid due date. A project specific approval letter is required to obtain the required approval to bid for Job Order Contract, Bid Solicitation No. 10749. Contractors shall email the Notice to Contractors to the Prequalification Administrator at cocm.prequal@calstate.edu. The project specific approval will be issued upon confirmation the contractor satisfies all the requirements for this solicitation and their systemwide prequalification financial aggregate rating is sufficient to propose. Official bid proposal packages will only be distributed to prequalified general contractors. It will be the responsibility of each bidder to obtain a bid proposal package in sufficient time to fulfill requirements therein. Bid proposal packages are obtainable only by prequalified contractors, licensed in the State of California with a "B" license, and registered with the DIR to bid public works projects. Evidence of prequalification must be submitted to the following office prior to receiving a bid package. Prequalification Deadline 11/4/2024