Required Notices upon Completion of Prequalification Evaluation

Notice to Interested General Contractors Failing to Prequalify. Within 14 days of the completion of the evaluation process by the Prequalification Committee, the Awarding Authority shall send via first class mail, postage prepaid, written notices to all interested General Contractors advising that they did not achieve a sufficient score from the Prequalification Committee to be prequalified. Notice to Prequalified General Contractors. Within 14 days of the completion of the evaluation process by the Prequalification Committee, the Awarding Authority shall send via first class mail, postage prepaid, written notice to each General Contractor advising that it has been prequalified by the Prequalification Committee and will be invited to submit a general bid on the Building Project. Public Notice of Prequalification. Within 14 days of the completion of the evaluation process by the Prequalification Committee, the Awarding Authority shall provide public notice of all of the General Contractors who have been prequalified to submit a general bid on a particular Building Project. The Awarding Authority shall publish such public notice stating that only the General Contractors prequalified to bid on said Building Project will be invited to submit general bids and shall post the list of prequalified General Contractors in its bid room or place of business where general bids are customarily received for the Awarding Authority’s Building Projects. Such public notice of prequalified General Contractors shall also be posted within the Commonwealth’s state-wide COMMBUYS procurement system, which is administered by the Commonwealth’s Operational Services Division. The public notice may also be posted on the Awarding Authority’s web-site. A copy of such public notice shall also be sent via first class mail, postage prepaid, to all prequalified General Contractors along with the invitation to bid required in 810 CMR 9.10.