WEST VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Division of Highways NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Bids will be received electronically by the West Virginia Department of Transportation, Division of Highways through the Bid Express Bidding Service (www.bidx.com) and by sealed proposals (only when prequalification is waived) being received at its office in Building 5, Room A-748, 1900 Kanawha Boulevard East, Charleston, West Virginia until February 10, 2015, at 10:00 a.m., (Eastern Standard Time). The bids will be downloaded and/or opened and read publicly thereafter for the construction of the following project(s): Call Contract State Project Federal Project Description 013 1004550 S385-STR/IP-15. 00 HSIP-2015(015)D PAVEMENT MARKINGS 2015 DISTRICT FIVE ROADWAY STRIPING DISTRICT WIDE COUNTY: GRANT, HARDY, MINERAL, OTHER Proposals will be received from prequalified and West Virginia licensed contractors only except that on Federal-Aid projects a contractors’ license is not required at time of bid, but will be required before work can begin. Registration is required with the Department of Administration, Division of Purchasing, in accordance with Chapter 5A, Article 3, Section 12 of the West Virginia Code. All contractors submitting bids on project(s) must include one of the following forms properly executed with each proposal: Proposal Guaranty Bond, Cashier’s Check, or Certified Check for $500.00 or 5{4ceb532c6f579389df471c6c1e832caf2346b74dc60fcbf6aabd4d29df3baf9c} of the total bid, whichever is greater. *These are projects on which any contractor with a category “W” Prequalification Rating may be eligible to bid. The West Virginia Department of Transportation, Division of Highways reserves the right to defer, delay or postpone the date for receiving and publicly opening proposals for any project designated in this advertisement, without the necessity of renewing such advertisement. All bidders holding valid bidding proposals will be notified of such deferment, delay or postponement and the date that proposals will be received and publicly opened. The West Virginia Department of Transportation, Division of Highways hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively ensure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, minority business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex or national origin in consideration for an award. West Virginia Department of Transportation Division of Highways Robert Pennington, Deputy State Highway Engineer – Planning and Programming 1/27-2/3