New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › NEW JERSEY SCHOOLS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY › Chapter 38 - PROCEDURES FOR LOW-BID PROCUREMENT OF CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS FOR SCHOOL FACILITIES PROJECTS › Subchapter 3 - REQUIREMENTS FOR BIDDING › Section 19:38-3.5 - Determination of Project Rating

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) A firm's
				  Project Rating for the trade shall be determined by the following:
A [times] (100% + B + C + D) [times] E
where:
A = the firm's largest completed project in a specific
					 trade listed in the Project Rating Proposal
B = the sum of the Reference Adjustment calculated pursuant
					 to this chapter
C = the Safety Adjustment calculated pursuant this
					 chapter
D = the Prevailing Wage Adjustment calculated pursuant to
					 this chapter
E = the average of the firm's Project Evaluations
A firm's Project Rating for a trade cannot exceed the
					 firm's Aggregate Rating and cannot exceed 170 percent of the firm's largest
					 listed completed project.
(b) Reference Adjustment Calculation: A firm
				  will be required to list in its Project Rating Proposal a minimum of two
				  projects completed within the past seven years. The firm shall also provide
				  project contacts for those projects. The Authority shall select, at its
				  discretion, two projects to be confirmed and shall contact the owner's contact
				  identified by the firm. If the Authority cannot contact an owner's contact, the
				  Authority will contact the firm for another owner's contact for that project.
				  If the firm is unable to provide an additional owner's contact, or if the
				  Authority is unable to contact the additional owner's contact provided by the
				  firm, the Authority will not use that project in the determination of the
				  firm's Project Rating. The Authority will confirm the firm's performance on the
				  job and assign a percentage value to the responses received. Project contacts
				  will be asked if the performance in each of the following seven categories
				  "exceeded expectations," "met expectations," or fell "below expectations" and
				  the Authority will assign to the response the percentage adjustment listed
				  below:
$
							 JExceeded,Met,Below
Expectations
Expectations
Expectations
$
Safety
+5 percent
+3
							 percent
-5 percent
Quality of the
+5 percent
+2
							 percent
-5 percent
construction.
Timeliness of the work
+2 percent
+1
							 percent
-2 percent
performed.
Efficiency of the firm's
+2
							 percent
+1 percent
-2 percent
contract administration.
Supervision of
+2 percent
+1
							 percent
-2 percent
subcontractors.
Firm's level of
+2 percent
+1
							 percent
-2 percent
cooperation during
construction.
Timeliness and
+2 percent
+1
							 percent
-2 percent
efficiency of punch list
work corrections.
1. If an
				  owner's contact rates a firm "below expectations" in either safety or quality
				  of construction, or if the project reference adjustment is -5 or lower, the
				  Authority will not use that project in the determination of the firm's Project
				  Rating.
2. The Authority will total
				  the project reference adjustments together and the sum shall be the Reference
				  Adjustment. This Reference Adjustment shall be used as "B" in the calculation
				  of the firm's Project Rating in (a) above.