Bid No. 25/26-01 Painting Projects at Various School Sites NOTICE TO BIDDERS 1. Notice is hereby given that the governing board (“Board”) of the Desert Sands Unified School District (“District”) will receive electronic bids for the following Project: Bid No. 25/26-01; Painting Projects at Various School Sites. 2. The Project consists of: Painting Projects at Desert Ridge Academy and Thomas Jefferson Middle School. 3. To bid on this Project, the Bidder is required to possess one or more of the following State of California Contractor Licenses: C-33 – Painting and Decorating Contractor. The Bidder's license(s) must remain active and in good standing throughout the term of the Contract. 4. To bid on this Project, the Bidder is required to be registered as a public works contractor with the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to the Labor Code. The Bidder’s registration must remain active throughout the term of the Contract. 5. Contract Documents are available on Friday, April 24, 2026. Bid documents are available from A&I Reprographics by logging on to: www.aandiplanroom.com or by emailing: bid@aandirepro.com. Any changes via addenda will be available on the A&I Reprographics site at www.aandiplanroom.com. 6. The District will ONLY receive bids submitted electronically. Bids will be received until 1:00 p.m., Monday, May 11, 2026, and only at the following email address: purchasing.info@desertsands.us.  after which time the bids will be opened and results publicly posted on the District website after the bid bonds are confirmed. The bid tabulation will be posted at: https://www.dsusd.us/departments/business_services/purchasing_services 7. Any bid that is submitted after this time shall be nonresponsive and returned to the bidder. Each bidder is solely responsible for timely submission of its bid; the District is not responsible for any technological issues in a bidder’s ability to timely submit its bid or portion thereof. Any claim by a bidder of error in its bid must be made in compliance with section 5100 et seq. of the Public Contract Code. Prior to publicly posting bids on the District website, the District reserves the right to verify the genuineness of any bid security. 8. All bids shall be on the form provided by the District. Each bid must conform and be responsive to all pertinent Contract Documents, including, but not limited to, the Instructions to Bidders. 9. A legible photocopy of (i) a bid bond by an admitted surety insurer on the form provided by the District (ii) a cashier's check or (iii) a certified check, drawn to the order of the Desert Sands Unified School District, in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the total informal bid price, shall accompany the Informal Bid Form and Proposal, as a guarantee that the Bidder will, within seven (7) calendar days after the date of the Notice of Award, enter into a contract with the District for the performance of the services as stipulated in the informal bid. Bidder must deposit the original of the bid bond, cashier’s check, or certified check in the mail on the same day as the bid opening. Bids without necessary bid security will be deemed nonresponsive and will be rejected. Mail the original of the bid bond, cashier’s check, or certified check to 47-950 Dune Palms Rd. La Quinta, CA 92253 – Purchasing Services, ATTN: Seandee Jackson. 10. Mandatorysite visits will be held on Wednesday, April 29, 2026, starting at 7:00 a.m. at Thomas Jefferson Middle School located at 83-089 Hwy 111, Indio, CA 92201 and continue on to Desert Ridge Academy located at 76-767 Ave 39, Indio, CA 92203. All participants are required to sign in and attend both school site visits. The site visits are expected to take approximately three (3) hours total. Failure to attend and sign in at both site visits will render bid ineligible. 11. The successful Bidder shall be required to furnish a 100% Performance Bond and a 100% Payment Bond if awarded the contract for the Project. The successful Bidder may substitute securities for any monies withheld by the District to ensure performance under the Contract, in accordance with the provisions of section 22300 of the Public Contract Code. 12. The Contractor and all Subcontractors under the Contractor shall pay all workers on all work performed pursuant to this Contract not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages and the general prevailing rate for holiday and overtime work as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations, State of California, for the type of work performed and the locality in which the work is to be performed within the boundaries of the District, pursuant to sections 1770 et seq. of the California Labor Code. Prevailing wage rates are also available from the District or on the Internet at: <http://www.dir.ca.gov>. 13. This Project is subject to labor compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code section 1771.4 and subject to the requirements of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations. The Contractor and all Subcontractors under the Contractor shall furnish electronic certified payroll records directly to the Labor Commissioner weekly or within ten (10) days of any request by the District or the Labor Commissioner. The successful Bidder shall comply with all requirements of Division 2, Part 7, Chapter 1, Articles 1-5 of the Labor Code. 14. The District shall award the Contract, if it awards it at all, to the lowest responsive responsible bidder based on: A. The base bid amount only. 15. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids and/or waive any irregularity in any bid received. If the District awards the Contract, the security of unsuccessful bidder(s) shall be returned within sixty (60) days from the time the award is made. Unless otherwise required by law, no bidder may withdraw its bid for ninety (90) days after the date of the bid opening. April 24th, 2026 and May 1st, 2026