NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS REQUESTING PRE-QUALIFICATION APPLICATIONS AND BIDSNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the MiraCosta Community College District (“District”) of San Diego County, California, acting by and through its Governing Board, will receive Pre-Qualification Applications from Contractors interested in being pre-qualified for Bid # MM 25-001, Security Camera and Infrastructure Project – Multiple Campuses (“Project”). Pre-Qualification Applications (“Applications”) shall be submitted up to, but not later than 2:00 pm on September 23, 2025. The documents contained in this Request for Pre-Qualification Applications represent only this instant pre-qualification component of this procurement (i.e., Step One), copies of which are now on file and may be obtained beginning August 19, 2025, via PlanetBids accessed at the following link:vendors.planetbids.com/portal/47167/portal-home- Once the Pre-Qualifications process concludes, Bid documents will be available to Applicants pre-qualified via this Request for Pre-Qualification Application process during the subsequent bidding phase (i.e. Step Two) of this procurement. The District will receive the Pre-Qualification Applications from Contractors interested in being pre-qualified electronically at https://www.miracosta.edu/administrative/purchasing/procurement-and-contracting/measure-mm-bids.html, up to, but no later than, September 23, 2025 2:00PM. Subcontractors are not required to submit Pre-Qualification Applications. Only those potential bidders who pre-qualify via this Request for Pre-Qualification Applications process will be permitted to continue to Step 2 and submit a bid for this Project. Applicants interested in submitting for pre-qualification status must attend a Mandatory Pre-Qualification Conference and Job Walk on August 26, 2025, at 10:00AM. Meet at MiraCosta Community College District, 1 Barnard Dr. Bldg. T-120. Failure to attend the entire Mandatory Pre-Qualification Conference and Job Walk will disqualify an Applicant from submitting a Pre-Qualification Application in response to this Request for Pre-Qualification Application and a Bid for this Project.Each potential Bidder for the Project shall be a licensed contractor pursuant to the Business and Professions Code and shall be licensed in the following appropriate classification of contractor’s license, for the work bid upon, and must maintain the license throughout the duration of the contract -- B, or C-7 or C-10 License.Any requests for clarification, interpretation, or corrections regarding the Request for Pre-Qualification Applications must be submitted in writing via PlanetBids by the Questions/Requests for Clarification deadline of September 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM. Failure of an Applicant/Bidder to request clarification, interpretation, and/or correction of apparent errors or ambiguities waives the Applicant’s right to object to a clarification, interpretation, and/or correction issued later by the District. The District reserves the right to cancel this Request for Pre-Qualification Applications Process, reject any or all Applications, to accept or to reject any one or more items on an Application, or to waive irregularities or informalities in an Application or in the Request for Pre-Qualification Applications process. Publication Dates: San Diego Union Tribune on August 19, 2025, and September 2, 2025.San Diego Union-TribunePublished: 8/19, 9/2/25