New Classroom Addition and Renovations at Existing Building - Vails Gate Elementary - Site Work Construction

ROJECT INFORMATION 1.01 NOTICE TO BIDDERS: QUALIFIED BIDDERS MAY SUBMIT BIDS FOR PROJECT AS DESCRIBED IN THIS DOCUMENT. SUBMIT BIDS ACCORDING TO THE INSTRUCTIONS TO BIDDERS. A. Regulatory Requirements: shall govern submittal, opening, and award of bids. 1.02 PROJECT IDENTIFICATION: A. Project Location: 1. VAILS GATE ELEMENTARY, 400 OLD FORGE ROAD. NEW WINDSOR, NY 12533 1.03 OWNER: . A. Owner's Representative: ROGER RAMJUG, CAPITAL PROJECTS ADMINISTRATOR, 124 GRAND STREET, NEWBURGH, NY 12550. 1.04 ARCHITECT: A. CPL, 50 FRONT STREET, NEWBURGH, NY 12550 1.05 CONSTRUCTION MANAGER: A. THE PALOMBO GROUP, PO BOX 4976, 22 NOXON ST, POUGHKEEPSIE, NY 12601 & 195 FRONT STREET, FIRST FLOOR, NEWBURGH, NY 12550. 1.06 PROJECT DESCRIPTION: PROJECT CONSISTS OF: A. New Classroom Addition and Renovations at existing building 1.07 CONTRUCTION CONTRACT: BIDS WILL BE RECEIVED FOR THE FOLLOWING WORK A. Multiple Contract Project consisting of the following prime contracts: 1. General Construction 2. Mechanical Construction 3. Plumbing Construction 4. Electrical Construction 5. Site Work Construction No bids may be withdrawn for a period of 45 days after opening of bids. Owner reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to waive informalities and irregularities. 4.02 PROCUREMENT AND CONTRACTING DOCUMENTS: A. Any bidder requiring documents to be shipped shall make arrangements with the printer and pay for all packaging and shipping costs. C. Please note REVplans (cpl.getpropeller.com) is the designated location and means for distributing and obtaining all bid package information. Only those Contract Documents obtained in this manner will enable a prospective bidder to be identified as an official plan holder of record. The Provider takes no responsibility for the completeness of Contract Documents obtained from other sources. Contract Documents obtained from other sources may not be accurate or may not contain addenda that may have been issued D. All bid addenda will be transmitted to registered plan holders via email and will be available at cpl.getpropeller.com. Plan holders who have paid for hard copies of the bid documents will need to make the determination if hard copies of the addenda are required for their use and coordinate directly with the printer for hard copies of addenda to be issued. There will be no charge for registered plan holders to obtain hard copies of the bid addenda. The Palombo Group: 195 Front Street, First Floor, Newburgh, NY 12250. BIDDER'S QUALIFICATIONS 5.01 ATTENTION OF THE BIDDER 1. 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 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. 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. THIS CONTRACT IS SUBJECT TO A PROJECT LABOR AGREEMENT 1. This Contract is subject to a Project Labor Agreement (PLA) entered into between the Newburgh Enlarged City School District (Owner) and the Hudson Valley Building and Construction Trades Council, on behalf of itself and its affiliated Local Unions, and the signatory Local Unions on behalf of themselves and their members. By submitting a Bid, the Contractor agrees that the PLA is binding on the Contractor and Subcontractors of all tiers. Please refer to the Bid Documents for further information. The Bidder to be awarded the Contract, as well as the Bidders subcontractors, will be required to execute a Letter of Assent prior to the award. Failure to execute the Letter of Assent will result in the rejection of the Bidder. 1. The Bidder is advised to review the PLA and the Letter of Assent, all of which are attached to AIA Document A232-2009 General Conditions of the Contract for Construction.

Division 01 -	General Requirements, Special Procedures, Environmental Procedures.
Division 02 -	Existing Conditions, Environmental Assessment, Hazardous Material Assessment, Subsurface Investigation, Site Remediation, Asbestos Remediation.
Division 31 -	Earthwork, Grading, Earthwork Methods.
Division 33 -	Utilities.