Port Byron CSD 2024-2025 COEP

SECTION 001113

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

PART 1 - GENERAL

1.01 PROJECT INFORMATION

A. THE PORT BYRON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT invites bids for, GENERAL

CONSTRUCTION, Work for PORT BYRON CENTRAL SCHOOL, 2024-2025 CAPITAL

OUTLAY EXCEPTION PROJECT located at MAIN BUILDING, 30 Maple Avenue, Port Byron,

NY 13140. Separate sealed bids will be received by District Clerk at District Office, 30 Maple

Avenue, Port Byron, NY 13140 until 3:00 pm., local time on Monday, October 07, 2024, at

which time they will publicly opened and read aloud.

B. Copies of the Bidding Documents may be obtained by Prime Contractors, Subcontractors and

Vendors on Wednesday, September 11, 2024 at 12:00 pm at Rotolite Elliott Corporation,

located at 1 Grove Street, P.O. Box 97, Pittsford, NY 14534, (585) 385-1463 telephone, (585)

385-2190 fax, upon deposit of Fifty Dollars ($50.00), made payable to the PORT BYRON

CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT for paper documents. Include, in addition to the paper

document deposit, a non-refundable check payable to Rotolite Elliott in the amount of Five

Dollars ($45.00) per set, for handling and postage of sets to be mailed.

C. In lieu of paper bid sets, bidders can view electronic plans and specifications online for Fifty-

Nine Dollars ($59.00) non-refundable payment made to Roto-Lite Elliott. Visit

www.recplanroom.com (click Public Jobs under the Menu Tab on the left-hand side of the plan

room homepage. Once you are in the public plan room please select the link of the Port Byron

Central School).

D. Bidding Documents will also be on file at the following locations;

1. Builders Exchange of Rochester, NY Inc., 180 Linden Oaks, Suite 100, Rochester, NY

14625. Phone 5858-586-5460.

2. McGraw Hill Construction/Dodge @ www.construction.com Phone 877-989-5753.

3. Southerntier Builders Association, 65 East Main Street, Falconer, NY 14733. Phone:

716-665-4026.

E. A Pre-Bid Conference for the Project will be conducted by the Architect/Engineer on

Wednesday, September 25, 2024 AT 3:30 PM.

F. A Bidder whose bid is accompanied by a certified check or other security in accordance with

the bidding requirements and public advertisement, and who returns a complete set of Bidding

Documents in good condition within thirty (30) days following the award of the Contract covered

by such Bidding Documents or the rejection of such bid, shall receive a refund of the full

amount of the deposit for (1) copy of the Bidding Documents. Partial reimbursement in an

amount equal to the deposit for (1) set of the Bidding Documents, less the actual cost of

reproduction of the Bidding Documents, shall be made for the return of all other copies of the

Bidding Documents in good condition within thirty (30) days following the award of the Contract

or the rejection of the bids covered by such Bidding Documents.

G. Attention of the Bidder is particularly called to the Owner's sales tax exemption, the

requirements as to conditions of employment to be observed and the minimum wage rates to

be paid under the contract. In addition, the Bidding Documents for this project contain detailed

requirements for the qualification of Bidders. These include, among other things, rigid bonding

and insurance requirements, financial statements, bank references, lists of lawsuits, arbitrations

or other proceedings in which the Bidder has been named as a party, a statement of surety's

intent to issue Performance and Payment Bonds, and a description of other projects of similar

size and scope completed by the Bidder.

H. Bids shall be prepared as set forth in “Instructions to Bidders”, enclosed in a sealed envelope

bearing on its face the name and address of the Bidder and the title of the Work to which the

bid enclosed relates. Each Bidder shall deposit with its bid, security in an amount not less than

five percent (5%) of the base bid in the form and subject to the conditions provided in the

“Instructions to Bidders.” No Bidder may withdraw his bid within forty-five (45) days after the

actual bid opening.

I. The Owner reserves the right to waive any and all informalities in or to reject any or all

bids. The Owner further reserves its right to disqualify Bidders for any material failure to

comply with the “Instructions to Bidders”.

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