CSUB Job Order Contract 2025/26

Bid Solicitation No. 11054

The Trustees of the California State University will receive sealed bid proposals in the Office of Procurement & Contract Services, Room 102, in the Administration West Building, at the above address, for furnishing all labor and materials for Job Order Contract, Bid Solicitation No. 11054, at the above-named campus.

Proposals will be received in the above-mentioned room until 3:00p.m. on Tuesday, December 23, 2025, in accordance with the contract documents, at which time the proposals will be publicly opened and read.

This Notice to Contractors is for the award of up to three (3) Job Order Contracts (JOC), which is a competitively bid, firm fixed priced, indefinite quantity contract. In addition to the three (3) Contracts designated for award, the Trustees reserve the right to award additional, separate Contracts, as deemed necessary. Any such additional Contracts, if awarded, will be subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this RFP and would be awarded concurrently with the three (3) designated Contracts. The Contract scope of work includes a collection of detailed repair and construction tasks and specifications that have established unit prices. It is awarded to the ¿Contractor¿ for the accomplishment of repair, alteration, modernization, maintenance, rehabilitation, demolition and construction of infrastructure, buildings, structures, or other real property. The University issues to the Contractor discrete, fixed-price task or job orders, as needed, under the contract. Under the JOC concept, the Contractor furnishes all management, documentation, labor, materials, and equipment needed to perform the work.

The JOC agreement awarded under this solicitation will have a minimum total contract value of $0.00 and a maximum total contract value of One Million Dollars ($1,000,000). The term of the contract will be twelve (12) months, unless the maximum value of the contract is achieved prior to the completion of the contract term. CSUB reserves the right increase the maximum amount of each Agreement to Three Million Dollars ($3,000,000) if the need arises.

In the event that the contractor submitting the lowest responsive and responsible bid refuses to enter into a contract with the CSU if tendered, or, in the event that the contractor materially breaches the JOC contract necessitating its termination, CSU reserves the right to award a second JOC under the same solicitation, provided such award is made within 120 days of the bid opening.

Each bidder offering a proposal must comply with bidding provisions of Article 02.00 et seq. in the Contract General Conditions, and should be familiar with all the provisions of the Contract General Conditions and Supplementary General Conditions.

This contract is for public works projects and is subject to prevailing wage rate laws (see Contract General Conditions, Article 04.02). All contractors and all tiers of subcontractors bidding on this project shall register to bid public works projects with the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR), and maintain current this registration pursuant to Labor Code Section 1725.5. Please go to http://www.dir.ca.gov/Public-Works/PublicWorks.html for more information and to register.

As a condition of bidding, prospective bidders must attend a mandatory pre-bid conference. The pre-bid conference will be held on Tuesday, December 2, 2025 at 11:00am for the purpose of discussing the JOC concept, documents, bid considerations and to discuss JOC from a contractor¿s viewpoint. The Mandatory pre-bid conference will be held using remote options either in a video or teleconference format. It is the bidder¿s responsibility to advise of your intent to participate in the web conference by emailing Andrew Duncan at aduncan@csub.edu for an email invitation. Attendees of the conference will be confirmed verbally during the pre-bid conference.

Electronic copies of the sample bid proposal package, the Unit Price Books, and the Technical Specifications will be distributed to the attendees of the mandatory pre-bid conference.

Small Business Preference:  The Trustees shall give a small business a bid advantage of five percent to contracting firms that have been certified as a ¿Small Business¿ by the Department of General Services, Office of Small Business and DVBE Services, in accordance with Contract General Conditions (and Supplementary General Conditions) for Job Order Contracts, Article 02.10, Small Business Five Percent Bid Advantage.

DVBE Incentive:  The Trustees REQUIRE the successful bidder to achieve a required minimum of 3% DVBE participation in each construction project under the Job Order Contract as established in the bidding documents. Additionally, the Trustees are granting a bid incentive for evaluation purposes only to bidders that exceed the three (3) percent DVBE participation requirement. The level of DVBE incentive will correlate to the level of participation; that is, the more DVBE participation proposed, the higher the incentive. The bid incentives are as follows:

DVBE Participation         Incentive
3.00% to 3.99%                  None
4.00% to 4.99%                    1%
5.00% to 5.99%                    2%
6.00% or more                    3%

The DVBE incentive may not exceed $50,000 when used in combination with the Small Business Preference; the cumulative adjustment amount shall not exceed $100,000. If the lowest responsive, responsible bid is a California certified small business, the only bidders eligible for the incentive will be California certified small businesses.

Each bidder offering a proposal must comply with all provisions of the Contract General Conditions for Job Order Contracts (note Article 2.00 et. seq), Supplementary General Conditions to Contract General Conditions for Job Order Contracts, and Special Conditions for Job Order Contracts. Bidders should familiarize themselves with all the provisions, especially:

¿        Article 02.02 of the Contract General Conditions for Job Order Contracts, regarding the necessity to prequalify with the Trustees, paying special attention to the prequalification requirements;
¿        Article 02.05-III of the Contract General Conditions for Job Order Contracts, regarding the necessity to provide Bid Security in the amount of $25,000 in the payment forms specified, and the successful bidder will be required to provide Performance and Payment Bonds equal to 100% of the maximum contract amount; and
¿        Article 04.02 of the Contract General Conditions for Job Order Contracts regarding the payment of prevailing wage rates.

Bidders must be prequalified with the Trustees. Bidders shall register and log in to ¿PlanetBids¿ to apply for financial prequalification and JOC supplemental prequalification at
https://pbsystem.planetbids.com/portal/15331/portal-home.  Both prequalification applications are due no less than 10 business days prior to the bid due date.

A project specific approval letter is required to obtain the required approval to bid for Job Order Contract, Bid Solicitation No. 11054.  Contractors shall email the Notice to Contractors to the Prequalification Administrator at cocm.prequal@calstate.edu.  The project specific approval will be issued upon confirmation the contractor satisfies all the requirements for this solicitation and their systemwide prequalification financial aggregate rating is sufficient to propose.

It will be the responsibility of each bidder to obtain a bid proposal package in sufficient time to fulfill requirements therein.  Bid proposal packages are obtainable only by prequalified contractors, licensed in the State of California with a ¿B¿ license, and registered with the DIR to bid public works projects. Evidence of prequalification must be submitted to the following office prior to receiving a bid package. Bid packages must be requested from the University, located at Procurement and Contract Services, 9001 Stockdale Hwy, Bakersfield, CA 93311: Attention Andrew Duncan, email: aduncan@csub.edu. Contractors may contact this person for additional information.