Upgrade Lottery Building Network Cabling Remove & Install

The State of Michigan Bureau of State Lottery seeks a qualified contractor to upgrade network cabling infrastructure at the Lottery building located at 101 East Hillsdale Street in Lansing, Michigan through Request for Proposal No. 210000002583. The procurement involves the removal and disposal of existing Cat-3 and Cat-5 cabling and the installation of approximately 640 new Category 6 or higher network cable drops across four building floors, including new patch panels in datacom closets, network jacks in all offices, and all necessary patch cables, with each drop requiring two connections (A and B) from floor datacom closets to office areas via ceiling runs and conduit poles. The contractor must also remove wall-mounted data racks from four datacom closets and provide and install new floor-mounted data racks configured sideways to optimize available space. Deliverables include full testing and certification of all network cabling per Cat-6 specifications with comprehensive test reports and network diagrams upon project completion, installation warranties covering failed testing or installation damage, and compliance with all TIA/EIA-568 network cabling standards and applicable building codes. Key Personnel must be available on-site from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM during installation, with work commencing within 14 business days of order receipt and completion required no later than January 31, 2023, to coordinate with an HVAC contractor whose work concludes in January 2023. Evaluation criteria include 100 technical points distributed across Product Quality (25 points), Service Capabilities (25 points), Delivery Capabilities (25 points), and Vendor Questions Worksheet responses (25 points), with only proposals achieving 80 or more technical points advancing to pricing evaluation. Critical deadlines include a pre-proposal meeting on September 7, 2021 at 9:00 AM EST (confirmation required by September 3 at 2:00 PM EST), a bidder questions deadline of September 10, 2021 at 3:00 PM EST with answers posted by September 14, and proposal submission through the SIGMA VSS system by September 17, 2021 at 3:00 PM EST, with an anticipated contract begin date of October 4, 2021.

Bidders must be certified authorized distributors and installers of network cable and must provide appropriate documentation at proposal submission. The State requires background investigations for all contractor personnel assigned to the project, with costs borne by the contractor, and mandates compliance with prevailing wage requirements, the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act, and nondiscrimination standards. Contractors must maintain Commercial General Liability Insurance of $1,000,000 per occurrence, Automobile Liability Insurance of $1,000,000 per accident, Workers' Compensation Insurance, Crime Insurance of $1,000,000, and Employers Liability Insurance with minimum limits of $500,000. Liquidated damages provisions apply at $5,000 plus $250 per day for late or improper completion and $500 to $1,000 per individual per day for unauthorized or untrained Key Personnel changes. While specific budget ranges are not disclosed in the solicitation documents, contracts valued at $250,000 or greater require State Administrative Board approval, suggesting a project value in that range. No incumbent vendors, set-aside designations for disadvantaged enterprises, or disabled veteran-owned business restrictions are identified in the available documentation, though bidders may voluntarily disclose qualified disabled veteran-owned business status through the Vendor Questions Worksheet.