NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that sealed Bids, in duplicate, are sought and requested by the Board of Education, Wallkill Central School District Board of Education (hereinafter called "Owner"), for the Reconstruction to Plattekill Elementary School. Separate bids are requested for the following Contracts: Plumbing Work – PC-1 in accordance with the Drawings, Project Manual (including Conditions of the Contract and Specifications), and other Bidding and Contract Documents prepared by: Tetra Tech Engineers, Architects & Landscape Architects, P.C. d/b/a Tetra Tech Architects & Engineers A pre‑bid conference for potential Bidders and other interested parties will be held at the Main Office of the Plattekill Elementary School, 1270 NY-32, Plattekill, New York 12568: Plumbing – 3:30 PM on Wednesday, October 16, 2024. Sealed Bids will be received by the Owner until 3:00 PM on Tuesday, October 29, 2024, at the Wallkill Central School District Administration Building, 1500 State Route 208, Wallkill, New York 12589. Sealed Bids will be opened and publicly read aloud at 3:30 PM on Tuesday, October 29, 2024, at the Wallkill Central School District Administration Building, 1500 State Route 208, Wallkill, New York 12589. For the convenience of potential Bidders and other interested parties, the Bidding Documents may be examined at the following locations: Reed Construction Data, Document Processing Center, 30 Technology Parkway South, Suite 500, Norcross, GA 30092-2912 Eastern Contractors Association, Inc., 6 Airline Drive, Colonie, NY 12205 McGraw Hill Construction/Dodge, c/o Dataflow, 71 Fuller Road, Albany, NY 12205 Wallkill Central School District, 1500 State Route 208, Wallkill, New York 12589 Tetra Tech Architects & Engineers, 10 Brown Road, Ithaca New York 14850 Complete digital sets of Bidding Documents, drawings and specifications, may be obtained online as a download at www.tetratechaeprojectplanroom.com 'public projects’ for a non-refundable fee of $49.00 (Forty Nine Dollars). Complete hard copy sets of Bidding Documents, drawings and specifications, may be obtained online at tetratechaeprojectplanroom.com ‘projects’. Checks shall be made payable to Wallkill Central School District in the sum of $100.00 (One Hundred Dollars) for each set of documents. A scanned copy of the deposit check can be emailed to projects@revplans.com. Once the scanned copy of the executed deposit check is received, Bidding Documents will be shipped. Mail checks to Lohrius Blueprint, 226 Newtown Road, Plainview, New York 11803. Plan deposit is refundable in accordance with the terms in the Instructions to Bidders. Any bidder requiring documents to be shipped shall make arrangements with the printer and pay for all packaging and shipping costs (either by providing FedEX/UPS account number or being charged a flat rate by the printer). Please note REV tetratechaeprojectplanroom.com is the designated location and means for distributing and obtaining all bid package information, electronic or hard copy. Only those Contract Documents obtained in this manner will enable a prospective bidder to be identified as a registered plan holder. 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. All bid addenda will be transmitted to registered plan holders, regardless of receiving electronic or hard copy Bid Documents, via email and will be available at tetratechaeprojectplanroom.com. Registered 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 REV 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. As bid security, each Bid shall be accompanied by a certified check or Bid Bond made payable to the Owner, in accordance with the amounts and terms described in the Instructions to Bidders. The Owner requires Bids comply with bidding requirements indicated in the Instructions to Bidders. The Owner may, at its discretion, waive informalities in Bids, but is not obligated to do so, nor does it represent that it will do so. The Owner also reserves the right to reject any and all Bids. The Owner will not waive informalities which would give one Bidder substantial advantage or benefit not enjoyed by all affected Bidders. Bids may not be withdrawn before 45 days following the Bid opening thereof, unless an error is claimed by the Bidder in accordance with the Instructions to Bidders.