NOTICE TO BIDDERS -Separate sealed proposals, will be received by the Board of Education, Brighton Central School District (herein referred to as the "Owner") for the Brighton Central School District 2022 CIP Project Phase 1. Bids shall be received by the Owner, at the BCSD Administration Building 2035 Monroe Avenue Rochester, NY 14618, until 2:00 P.M., local time, on March 8th, 2023, at which time they will be publicly opened and read aloud. Bids transmitted electronically or via facsimile will not be accepted. Separate Bids are requested for the following Prime Contracts: Contract 101: Mechanical Contract The Architect for the Project is: SEI Design Group, 224 Mill Street, Rochester, NY 14614. The Instructions to Bidders, Form of Proposal, General Conditions, Drawings, and Specifications may be examined at the following locations: Builders Exchange of Rochester, 180 Linden Oaks, Rochester, NY 14625 McGraw Hill Construction/Dodge, 320 North Goodman Street, Rochester, NY 14607 A Pre-Bid walk-thru conference shall be held at the French Road Elementary School Cafeteria, 488 French Road, Rochester, New York 14618 at 3:30 P.M., local time, on February 15, 2023, for the purpose of touring the building to review the existing conditions and considering Bidders' questions. Bidders for Prime Contract Work may obtain Contract Documents upon payment of $100 per set (make check payable to Brighton Central School District) at the offices of Rotolite-Elliott Corporation 1 Grove St #123, Pittsford, NY 14534 P.O. Box 97 (585-385-1463). All RFI's should be directed to the Construction Manager, Campus CMG, to the attention of Patrick Arrow, via e-mail: parrow@campuscmg.com. In lieu of paper bid sets, bidders can view electronic plans and specifications online upon a $49 nonrefundable payment by visiting 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 for Brighton CSD.) Bid sets will not be available at SEI Design Group's offices. Bids shall be on the form provided in the documents, prepared in duplicate as set forth in the Instructions to Bidders and enclosed in an envelope bearing on its face the name and address of the bidder and the title of work to which the proposal relates. If submitting for more than one contract, submit each contract bid in separate envelope. 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 additions, 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. The Board of Education hereby reserves the right to waive any informalities and reject any or all Bids or to accept the one that in its judgment will be for the best interest of the school district. A Bid Bond or Certified Check made payable to the Owner in the amount of five percent (5%) of the Bid, subject to the conditions provided in the Instructions to Bidders, must be deposited by each Bidder with his Bid as a guarantee that, in the case the contract is awarded to him, he will then, ten days thereafter, execute such contract and furnish a satisfactory Performance and Payment Bond, and the Bidder shall not withdraw his Bid for a period of forty-five days after the above date of Bid opening, and to guarantee the performance of all other obligations of the Bidders as set forth in Instructions to Bidders. Attention of the Bidders is called to the requirements as to the conditions of employment and minimum wage rates to be paid under this Contract as well as to other provisions set forth in the Instruction to Bidders. Work shall be commenced and continuously and diligently prosecuted immediately after contracts have been signed. The Owner further reserves its right to disqualify Bidders for any material failure to comply with the "INSTRUCTIONS TO BIDDERS" and "SUPPLEMENTARY INSTRUCTIONS TO BIDDERS." 2471542 2-3-1t