ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

Cooling Towers

The School Board of Pinellas County, Florida will receive sealed bids in the Purchasing Department of the School Board of Pinellas County, Florida 301 – Fourth Street S.W., Largo, Florida 33770-3536 until 4:00 p.m. (Local Time), on 2/21/12, for the purpose of selecting a Contractor for supplying all labor, material, and ancillary services required for the scope listed below.

SEALED BID NO.: 12-968-169

BID TITLE: Cooling Tower Installation

DUE DATE/TIME: February 21, 2012, 4:00 p.m. (ET)

SCOPE OF PROJECT: This bid will select a “Mechanical Contractor” to install an Owner Purchased cooling towers. The work shall consist of furnishing all materials, labor, tools, equipment and supervision required to replace two existing cooling towers with new towers, furnished by Owner, along with condenser water piping, makeup water piping, drain and overflow piping and associated valves and fittings. Remove existing concrete pads and provide new concrete and steel supports for the new towers. Reroute blow down drain to sanitary waste. Tie water treatment controller into the DDC control system. Test and balance the condenser water system.

BID & PERFORMANCE SECURITY: Bid and Performance Security is required with this bid.

PRE-BID CONFERENCE: A pre-bid conference will be held at the Main Office of East Lake High School located at 1300 Silver Eagle Drive, Tarpon Springs, FL 34688 on February 8, 2012, 10:00 a.m. (Sign-in at the front desk, and you will escorted to the prebid room for the “official” sign-in). Attendance at this pre-bid conference is MANDATORY in order for all potential bidders to receive the benefit of answers to theirs and other’s technical questions first hand. If you are not the prime bidder but are attending on behalf of someone else, please make note of this when signing the attendance roster where indicated. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you, but it is imperative that all information be disseminated in a public forum with all potential bidders present to minimize confusion or misunderstandings. Additions or changes to the original bid documents resulting from this conference of a material nature, will be documented in the form of written addenda and distributed to all attendees. Please note that if you are late to this mandatory pre-bid conference you will not be eligible to sign the attendance roster and therefore may not submit a bid. You may still, however, attend the conference if you wish.

Purchasing Department

301 Fourth Street, S.W.

Largo, Florida 33770

(727)588-6149

(727)588-6129 (Fax)

The Owner reserves the right to reject all bids.

BY ORDER OF THE SCHOOL BOARD OF PINELLAS COUNTY, FLORIDA

Dr. John A. Stewart,                                  Carol J. Cook

Superintendent                                          CHAIRMAN

SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS

AND EX-OFFICIO SECRETARY

TO THE SCHOOL BOARD                                LINDA BALCOMBE

                                                            DIRECTOR, PURCHASING