REQUEST FOR PRE-QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ) - Build LACCD

4.6 Additional Investigations.District shall have the right, but not the obligation, before or after an Applicant has beenprequalified, to investigate the facts or circumstances of any response by an Applicant. Except asprovided in Article 5, below, the District has no obligation to afford any Applicant theopportunity, as part of the scoring process of an Applicant’s Prequalification Submittal orotherwise, to respond to any adverse information that may be received as a result of suchinvestigations. In addition to the foregoing, the District shall have the right, but not theobligation, before or after an Applicant has been prequalified, to designate auditors to performaudits or reviews of the books or accounts of any Applicant or Prequalified Applicant, or anyother person or entity upon whose financial condition the Applicant has relied in seekingprequalification, in order to confirm the accuracy and completeness of financial informationprovided. The Applicant must make provision for and is responsible to ensure full and promptcooperation with such audits or reviews.4.7 Prequalification Selection.The District will designate an individual or group of individuals to conduct, on behalf of theDistrict, the evaluation of the Applicant’s Prequalification Submittal. The identities of suchindividual(s) shall not be disclosed by the District to the Applicants.4.8 Unauthorized Communications.The Applicant shall not, at any time during the prequalification process followingadvertisement of the Notice to Applicants, communicate with anyone from the District orCollege not designated as the authorized contact for Applicants in the Prequalification Process;except by means of written requests for clarification.4.9 Requests for ClarificationProposers are asked to submit all questions in writing to the Contract Administrator e-mail byWritten Questions Deadline (see cover page). Proposers are instructed not to contact Districtpersonnel or its agents in any manner concerning this Prequalification Submittal. Writtenresponses to questions will be posted on the website http://www.build-laccd.org/ (follow the“Contracting and Bidding Site hyperlink”), Notice to Bidders (Top of webpage), StructuredCabling Pre-qualification section to ensure that all proposers have complete information.District shall not answer any questions received after the Deadline or any questions submitted ina manner other than as instructed above.4.10 Prequalification Addendum.If it becomes necessary for the District to revise any part of this Prequalification documentpackage, or to provide clarification or additional information after the Prequalificationdocuments are released, a written addendum will be emailed to each recipient of record of theoriginal Prequalification documents. Recipients of record are those parties that obtained a copyof the Prequalification documents directly from the District. Addenda will also be posted on thewebsite http://www.build-laccd.org/, Contracting and Bidding Site, Notice to Bidders (top ofwebpage), Structured Cabling Systems Prequalification. Addenda will be issued no later thanthe third (3 rd ) Day, seventy-two (72) hours, prior to the Deadline, except an Addendumwithdrawing the request for Prequalification Submittals or one which includes postponement ofthe Deadline.__________________________________________________________________________915 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 810, Los Angeles, California 90017Instructions to Applicants page 12 of 40