Bids must be submitted by Tuesday, September 1, 2026, at 3:00 pm. A mandatory prebid conference and site visit is scheduled for August 20, 2026, at 11:00 am in Gilroy, CA. Bids must include security of at least 10% of the maximum bid amount. The contract will be awarded to the lowest responsive, responsible bidder. Contractors must hold a C27 landscaping license.
Bids must be received by the sccoe at the following location: **** ridder park drive, san jose, **** attention purchasing department
periodic payments shall be made by the sccoe to contractor within thirty 30 days of sccoes receipt of an application for payment from contractor for services rendered.
contractor warrants all work under the contract. . . to be of good quality and free from any defective or faulty material and workmanship. contractor agrees that for a period of one year or the period of time specified elsewhere in the contract or in any guarantee or warranty provided by any manufacturer or supplier of equipment or materials incorporated into the work, whichever is later after the date of final acceptance, contractor shall within ten 10 days after being notified in writing by the sccoe of any defect in the work or nonconformance of the work to the contract, commence and prosecute with due diligence all work necessary to fulfill the terms of the warranty at its sole cost and expense.
The contract will be awarded to the lowest responsive, responsible bidder based on the specifications noted in the bid.
The classes of california contractors licenses required in order to bid on and perform the contract for this project is: informal bid no. ib **** contractors license requirement: c27 landscaping
in accordance with government code section ****, being impractical and infeasible to determine the amount of actual damage, it is agreed that contractor shall pay to the sccoe as fixed and liquidated damages, and not as a penalty, the sum of five hundred dollars **** for each and every calendar day of delay beyond the time prescribed in the agreement for finishing the work.
the sccoe will conduct a prebid conference and site visit on 11: 00 am on thursday, august 20, 2026 for the purpose of acquainting all prospective bidders with the bid documents and the work site. attendance is mandatory, and any bidder that does not attend will be disqualified from work on the project.
interested firms should direct questions in writing, no later than 3: 00 pm on monday, august 24, 2026 to the project coordinator by email to tedpierce@sccoe. org.
a potential contractor that has submitted a formal or informal bid to provide goods and or services to the sccoe may be disqualified if the potential contractor has been found, by a court or by final administrative action of an investigatory government agency, to have violated applicable wage and hour laws in the five years prior to the submission of a bid to provide goods and or services.
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