18A:64A-25.25 - Cost over threshold level; separate plans and specifications; bids; advertisement; award of contract; payment to subcontractor
18A:64A-25.25 Cost over threshold level; separate plans and specifications; bids; advertisement; award of contract; payment to subcontractor.
25. In the preparation of plans and specifications for the construction, alteration or repair of any building by a county college, when the entire cost of the work and materials will exceed $25,000 or, commencing January 1, 2003, the amount determined pursuant to subsection b. of section 3 of P.L.1982, c.189 (C.18A:64A-25.3), separate plans and specifications may be prepared for each of the following to include all work and materials related thereto or to be performed or furnished in connection therewith:
(a)The plumbing and gas fitting work;
(b)The heating and ventilating systems and equipment;
(c)The electrical work, including any electrical power plants;
(d)The structural steel and ornamental iron work;
(e)All other work and materials required for the completion of the project.
The contracting agent shall advertise for and receive in the manner provided by law (1) separate bids for each of the foregoing categories (a) through (e), or (2) bids for all work and materials required to complete the entire project, if awarded as a single contract, or (3) both. All bids submitted shall set forth the name or names of, and evidence of performance security from, all subcontractors to whom the bidder will subcontract the work described in the foregoing categories (a) through (e).
Contracts shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder. In the event that a contract is advertised in accordance with (3) above, the contract shall be awarded in the following manner: if the sum total of the amounts bid by the lowest responsible bidder for each category (a) through (e) is less than the amount bid by the lowest responsible bidder for all the work and materials, the county college shall award separate contracts for each of such categories to the lowest responsible bidder therefor, but if the sum total of the amount bid by the lowest responsible bidder for each category is not less than the amount bid by the lowest responsible bidder for all the work and materials, the county college shall award a single contract to the lowest responsible bidder for all of such work and materials. In every case in which a contract is awarded under (2) above, all payments required to be made under the contract for work and materials supplied by a subcontractor shall, upon the certification of the contractor of the amount due to the subcontractor, be paid directly to the subcontractor.
L.1982,c.189,s.25; amended 1983, c.67; 1984, c.241, s.7; 2001, c.281, s.5.