ADVERTISEMENT FOR BID PROJECT: MUHSD District Operations – New District Office Merced Union High School District NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the Board of Trustees of the Merced Union High School District of Atwater, California, on August 28, 2025 at 2:00PM, at the MUHSD Facilities Planning Department, Attention: Melissa Miller, 2130 Spacecraft Drive, Atwater, CA 95301. Bidders may obtain a digital set of complimentary plans and specifications, and contract documents from the Architect: California Design West Architects, 2100 19th Street, Sacramento, CA 95818, (916) 446-2466, Contact Anne Perkins (aperkins@ca-dw.com). Bidders may also review bid documents at local Builders. The work of this bid package is described as follows: Remodel / Tenant Improvement of existing Building D to be finished / built out to be MUHSD District Office. Project includes demolition, grading, earthwork, landscape and irrigation, asphalt paving, concrete paving, architectural, structural, mechanical, plumbing, electrical, electronic access control hardware infrastructure, fencing and gates, and all other work as necessary or indicated to construct The Project. Mandatory Pre-Bid Job Walk: There is a mandatory pre-bid conference for this project on August 6, 2025 at 1:00PM. Attendees to meet at MUHSD District Operations, 158 Business Park Way, Atwater, CA 95301. Each bid must strictly conform with and be responsive to the Contract Documents as defined in the General Conditions, exclusions will not be accepted. Bidders shall be licensed California contractors and shall comply with the State Labor Code. Prevailing wage rates are required. A 10% bid bond will be required. Each bidder shall submit with his bid, on the form furnished with the Contract Documents, a list of the designated subcontractors on this Project as required by the Subletting and Subcontracting Fair Practices Act, California Public Contract Code Sections 4100 et. Seq. The successful bidder must possess the specified Contractor's license that is valid and active for each Bid Package listed below at the time of submitting a bid. The Contractor's California State License number shall be clearly stated on the bidder's proposal. Subcontractors shall be licensed pursuant to California law for the trades necessary to perform the Work called for in the Contract Documents. Qualified Disabled Veteran Business Enterprises (DVBE) are encouraged to participate in this project. Where applicable, bidders must be the requirements set forth in Public Contract Code section 10115 et seq., Military and Veterans Code section 999 et seq. and California Code of Regulations, Title 2, Section 1896.60 et seq. regarding Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise (DVBE) Programs. Applicable forms are included in this Bid Package for use by bidders. Each Bidder shall complete and submit the Disabled Veteran Business (DVBE) Participation statement with its bid. The District reserves the right to reject any or all bids or to waive any irregularities or informalities in any bids or in the bidding. Bidders shall enter into a contract ten (10) days after receipt of "Notice of Award". The cost of all bonds shall be included in the bid and paid for by the Contractor. Contractors shall be a licensed California contractor and shall comply with the State Labor Code which requires setting forth in this document the following sections: All Contractors and Sub-Contractors who submit bids must be registered with the Department of Industrial Relations (D.I.R.). It shall be the Contractor's responsibility to pay the general prevailing rate of per diem wages and the general prevailing rate in the locality in which this public works is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of work needed for this project. Prevailing wage rates are available from the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations. It shall be the Contractor's responsibility to know and abide by the requirements which include, but are not limited to, the requirement to keep accurate payroll records (Labor Code Division 2, Part 7, Chapter 1, Article 3, §1771, 1773.1, 1775, 1776, 1777.5, 1810, 1811, 1815). Per Education Code Section 45125.2, Contractor employees who may come in contact with students are subject to a Fingerprinting and Criminal Background Check. Per Section 1735, no discrimination shall be made in the employment of persons upon public works because of the race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, marital status, or sex of such persons, except as provided in Section 12940 of the Government Code, and every contractor for public works violating this section is subject to all the penalties imposed for a violation of this chapter. The work required in the bidding documents is subject to liquidated damages as outlined in the General Conditions. IMPORTANT DATES Mandatory Pre-Bid Job Walk: August 6, 2025 at 1:00PM. Requests for Information / Substitution Requests Due: August 15, 2025 by 5:00PM. Send to Anne Perkins (aperkins@ca-dw.com). Request for Information / Substitution Request Responses / Final Addenda Issued: August 21, 2025. Public Bid Opening: August 28, 2025 at 2:00PM. Board Meeting: September 10, 2025 Estimated Start of Construction Date: September 29, 2025 Estimated Project Duration: May 1, 2026 END OF AD FOR BID. Legal Advertisement July 30, 2025 & August 13, 2025 IPL0258412 Jul 30,Aug 13 2025