Legal Notice 5-4-2026 MEDIA CENTER INTERIOR ALTERATIONS.pdf

LEGAL NOTICE

INVITATION TO BID

Amity Regional School District #5

Amity Regional High School Media Center Interior Alterations Bid #2026-LMC-HS-1

State Project #205-0046 A

Amity Regional School District #5 (“RSD5”) is soliciting sealed bids from responsible qualified contractors for construction and related services for interior renovations, alterations, improvements, and associated work to the media center at Amity Regional High School located at 25 Newton Road, Woodbridge, CT 06525 (the “Project”). Bidders are required to be pre-qualified by the Connecticut Department of Administrative Services (“DAS”) for work in the following classification: GENERAL BUILDING

CONSTRUCTION (GROUP B).

Sealed bids with the words “SEALED BID –“SEALED BID – Amity Regional High School Media Center Interior Alterations Project – Bid #2026-LMC-HS-1 and the bidder’s name and address all clearly marked on the outer envelope, must be received by received by RSD5 at the office of the Director of Finance at the District’s Administrative Offices located at 25 Newton Road, Woodbridge, CT 06525, no later than 2:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday, May 27, 2026, at which time bids received will be publicly opened and read aloud. In the event of the closure of the District’s Administrative Offices on date noted above, bids will be opened and read aloud at 2:00 p.m. EST on the next business day that the Administrative Offices is open. Any bid received after the time and date specified shall not be considered. Bid submissions must be delivered in hard copy by mail, or by hand delivery, and shall include an original and three (3) copies.

Opening of Bids will also be held publicly using ‘Zoom’ at the following link:

https://zoom.us/j/95960232375?pwd=NzFoN1hmWVZiNUoyckJseHhKbE1oQT09; Meeting ID: 959 6023 2375; Password: 320443. One tap mobile: +19292056099,,95960232375# US (New York), +13017158592,,95960232375# US (Germantown); Dial by your location +1 929 205 6099 US (New York) or +1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown). Meeting ID: 959 6023 2375. Find your local number:

https://zoom.us/u/ajZDtDvp8

The Invitation to Bid, Instructions to Bidders, drawings, specifications, and other Bidding Documents (as defined in the Instructions to Bidders) may be accessed on the Department of Administrative Services (DAS) website https://portal.ct.gov/das/ctsource/bidboard under the State Procurement Marketplace, State Contracting Portal (“DAS Website”). To access the documents, click on the Contracting Organization, Cities, Towns and Municipalities, “Regional School District #”. Bidding Documents will also be available on the Amity Regional School District Website at: www.amityregion5.org (“District Website”).

Each bidder is responsible for checking the District Website and/or the DAS Website to determine if any addenda to the Bidding Documents have been issued.

A mandatory pre-bid Project site visit will be conducted at the Project site at 1:30 p.m., on Tuesday, May 12, 2026, at the Amity Regional High School located at 25 Newton Road, Woodbridge, CT, for all interested bidders. The site visit will begin at the main entry of the school building. Please confirm attendance at the site visit and request instructions for the site visit by email to Director of Facilities Stephen Martoni at stephen.martoni@amityregion5.org.

Any questions and official Requests for Information (RFI) by interested bidders regarding this Invitation to Bid shall be submitted in writing in accordance with the Instruction to Bidders and other Bidding Documents.

Except as otherwise expressly provided in the Instructions to Bidders, a Bid Bond in an amount equal to five percent (5%) of the total Bid amount must be submitted with each Bid. The selected contractor shall be required to provide performance and labor and material payment bonds each in the amount of the total contract price.

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This Project is subject to the prevailing wage law requirements of Connecticut General Statutes (CGS) Section 31-53, et seq. Current prevailing wage rate information is included with the Bidding Documents.

This contract is partially funded by a school building project grant from the State of Connecticut under the DAS school construction grant program for public schools. This Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements of CGS Section 31-53, et seq. This contract is subject to state contract compliance requirements, including spending allocation goals (25% SBE and 6.25% M/W/DisBE) and non-discrimination requirements enforced by the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities.

RSD5 reserves the right to amend or withdraw this Invitation to Bid for any reason, to accept or reject any or all Bids, to waive any informalities or non-material deficiencies or irregularities in any Bid, and to make such award (or make no award) of a contract in connection with this Invitation to Bid all as determined by its Board of Education, in its discretion, to be in the best interest of RSD5 and the Board of Education.

A Bid may be rejected for irregularities of any kind, including without limitation, alteration of form, additions not called for, conditional proposals, and incomplete Bids. The foregoing provisions are for illustrative purposes and shall in no way limit the right of RSD5 and its Board of Education to reject any or all Bids, in whole or in part. Any contract awarded in connection with this Invitation to Bid shall be awarded to the lowest responsible qualified bidder.

Amity Regional School District #5 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Minority Business Enterprises (MBE) and Women’s Business Enterprises (WBE) are encouraged to bid.