Section 1400.3525  Prevailing Wage Requirements

a)         Applicability

All services, as defined in subsection (b), furnished under service contracts of $2,000 or more or $200 or more per month and under printing contracts are subject to the following prevailing wage requirements:

1)         Not less than the general prevailing wage rate of hourly wages for work of a similar character in the locality in which the work is produced shall be paid by the successful vendor to its employees who perform the work on the State contracts. 

2)         The offeror, in order to be considered to be a responsible offeror for the purposes of this Part, shall certify to the Treasurer's office that wages to be paid to its employees are no less, and fringe benefits and working conditions of employees are not less favorable, than those prevailing in the locality where the contract is to be performed. 

3)         Prevailing wages and working conditions shall be determined by the Director of the Illinois Department of Labor. [30 ILCS 500/25-60]

b)         As used in this Section, "services" means janitorial cleaning services, window cleaning services, building and grounds services, site technician services, natural resources services, food services, and security services.  "Printing" means and includes all processes and operations involved in printing, including but not limited to letterpress, offset, and gravure processes, the multilith method, photographic or other duplicating process, the operations of composition, platemaking, presswork, and binding, and the end products of those processes, methods, and operations.  As used in this Part "printing" does not include photocopiers used in the course of normal business activities, photographic equipment used for geographic mapping, or printed matter that is commonly available to the general public from contractor inventory. [30 ILCS 500/25-60(b)]

c)         For printing contracts, "locality" means one of the following areas:

1)         Cook County.

2)         Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Champaign, DeKalb, DeWitt, DuPage, Ford, Fulton, Grundy, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Iroquois, Jo Daviess, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, Knox, Lake, LaSalle, Lee, Livingston, Logan, Marshall, Mason, McDonough, McHenry, McLean, Mercer, Ogle, Peoria, Piatt, Putnam, Rock Island, Schuyler, Stark, Stephenson, Tazewell, Vermilion, Warren, Whiteside, Will, Winnebago, Woodford.

3)         Adams, Alexander, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Douglas, Edgar, Edwards, Effingham, Fayette, Franklin, Gallatin, Greene, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson, Jersey, Johnson, Lawrence, Macon, Macoupin, Madison, Marion, Massac, Menard, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Moultrie, Perry, Pike, Pope, Pulaski, Randolph, Richland, Saline, Sangamon, Scott, Shelby, St. Clair, Union, Wabash, Washington, Wayne, White, Williamson.

4)         When the printing is performed in a plant outside the jurisdiction of this State, it is deemed produced in the Illinois locality in which delivery of the printing ordered is required to be made.  When the printing is required to be delivered to more than one Illinois locality, it is deemed produced in the Illinois locality to which the largest dollar volume of printing under the contract is to be delivered.

d)         For janitorial services, window washing, building and grounds services, site technician services, natural resources services, and security guard services, location means the county in which the work is to be performed.

e)         This Section does not apply to services furnished under contracts for professional or artistic services. [30 ILCS 500/25-60(e)]

f)         This Section does not apply to vocational programs of training for physically or mentally handicapped persons or to sheltered workshops for the severely disabled. [30 ILCS 500/25-60(f)]

g)         The Prevailing Wage Act [820 ILCS 130] shall apply to any construction contract procured under this Part.  It is the policy of the Treasurer's office that a wage of no less than the general prevailing hourly rate as paid for work of a similar character in the locality in which the work is performed, shall be paid to all laborers, workers and mechanics employed by or on behalf of the Treasurer's office. [820 ILCS 130/1]  Construction contracts shall include a provision notifying the vendor that the contract is subject to the Prevailing Wage Act unless the provisions of that Act exempt its application.

(Source:  Amended at 40 Ill. Reg. 13847, effective September 23, 2016)