SAN MATEO COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT

PREQUALIFICATION FOR D52, C2, C15, AND C33 LICENSED CONTRACTORS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the San Mateo County Community College District (the District) of San Mateo, CA., acting through its Governing Board, hereinafter the District, is seeking to prequalify D52, C2, C15, and C33 licensed contractors who wish to compete for the award of contracts for various projects including:

Each submittal must conform to and be responsive to the Prequalification documents and be submitted on a form furnished by the District.  Proposals can only be submitted by D52, C2, C15, and C33 licensed contractors.

Projects will be located at the District’s three campuses:  Cañada College, College of San Mateo, and Skyline College.  The contractors that prequalify through this process will be eligible to bid on the unit pricing contracts the District will release for bids in March/April 2005.

PREQUALIFICATION SUBMITTALS must be marked clearly on the envelope with your firm name and “Prequalification for D52, C2, C15, and C33 Licensed Contractors,” and filed with Swinerton Management & Consulting, at 1700 West Hillsdale Blvd. Building 6, San Mateo, California, 94402 no later than 2:00 p.m., April 5, 2005.

MANDATORY PREQUALIFICATION CONFERENCE: Interested contractors are required to attend one of the two scheduled Prequalification conferences.  The Prequalification conferences are scheduled for Friday March 25, 2005, promptly at 10:00 a.m. and Tuesday, March 29, 2005, promptly at 3:30 p.m.  Interested parties are to meet at 1700 West Hillsdale Drive, Building 6, San Mateo, CA, in Swinerton Management & Consulting’s Conference Room.   Interested parties are advised to arrive early in order to park, obtain a parking permit from Building 6 and be on time for the meeting.  Doors will be closed at 10 minutes after the commencement of the conference.

REQUIREMENTS FOR PREQUALIFICATION:  The District’s evaluation is solely for the purpose of determining which contractors are deemed responsible and qualified.  Prequalification of bidders will be reviewed and determined by the District based upon the submitted Prequalification application and any other information available to the District.  The District may request a contractor to submit additional information pertinent to the Application.  The District also reserves the right to investigate other available sources in addition to any documents or information submitted by the Contractor.

The District retains the sole discretion to determine issues of compliance and to determine whether a bidder is responsive and responsible.  The District will determine a contractor’s quality, fitness and capacity to perform projects satisfactorily.  The District’s decision on Prequalification will be based on the evaluation of several factors including but not limited to the following:

1. Experience on Comparable Projects
2. Contractor’s License
3. Work History
4. Litigation and Arbitration History
5. Disqualification from Previous Projects
6. Compliance with Statutory Requirements and Safety Record
7. Compliance with Prevailing Wage Requirements
8. Project Personnel
9. Insurance Requirements
10. Bonding Information
11. Financial Information

In addition to being disqualified for failure to meet the District’s criteria, a contractor may be automatically disqualified for any one of the following:

1. Omission of requested information
2. Falsification of information
3. Lack of required valid contractor’s license
4. Lack of bondability
5. Lack of insurability
6. Lack of Declaration under penalty of perjury of Application by a duly authorized officer of the firm.
7. Lack of experience in comparable projects

Prevailing Wage: These projects will require that the successful bidder shall be required to pay its workers on this project a sum not less than the general prevailing wage rate of per diem wages and not less than the general prevailing rate for holiday and overtime work for work of a similar character in the locality in which the project is performed as provided under California Labor Code section 1770 et sec. The District has determined the prevailing rate of per diem wages and the general prevailing rate for holidays and overtime work in the locality in which this project is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of work needed to execute the work.  Contractor shall be required to post, at each job site, a copy of such prevailing rate of per diem wages as determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations.

Procurement of bidding documents: Interested parties may obtain prequalification documents from the District website located at: http://www.smccd.edu/accounts/facilities/planconstruct/DW_NTC.html

LABOR COMPLIANCE PROGRAM:  These projects may be required to conform to a Labor Compliance Program in accordance with the requirements of the Department of Industrial Relations, State of California, and/or the District Project Stabilization Agreement available online at: http://www.smccd.edu/accounts/facilities/planconstruct/Downloads/PROJ%20STABILIZATION%20AGMNT%20SIGNED%20081503%20FINAL.pdf

CONFIDENTIALITY:  Responses to the Prequalification application and questionnaire and any financial information submitted for Prequalification evaluation are not public records and not open to public inspection.  The District will maintain the confidentiality of these records to the extent permitted by law.  In the event a third party requests these confidential records, the District will notify the affected contractor, and it shall be the contractor’s responsibility to defend the District in any action to compel disclosure of the contractor’s confidential information.

The San Mateo County Community College District is an equal opportunity employer.

Board of Trustees

San Mateo County Community College District

Dave Mandelkern, Vice President-Clerk  

Published:	March 16, 2005
	March 23, 2005