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CCRPC's Indoor Climate Research & Training facility bids were due Thursday; award vote set for Friday

The Regional Planning Commission agenda lists the renovation bid award for its Oct. 23 meeting, with details to come at the meeting.

URBANA - Sealed bids for renovating the Champaign County Regional Planning Commission's Indoor Climate Research & Training facility were due at 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22, and the commission is scheduled to vote on awarding the work Friday, Oct. 23, according to the agency's bid invitation and its Oct. 23 meeting agenda.

Bids were received in the John Dimit Conference Room at the Brookens Administrative Center, 1776 E. Washington St., Urbana. The project site is 2002 Glenn Park Drive, Champaign. Bidders had to post security of at least 10% of their bid, cannot withdraw a bid for 30 days and must pay Illinois prevailing wage, the invitation says.

The agenda for Friday's Regional Planning Commission meeting, also at Brookens, lists approval of the award bid for the facility renovation as its first action item, with information to be provided at the meeting. No bid amounts, bidder count or proposed contractor appear in the agenda, and the agenda does not list a start time. The same meeting also takes up personnel policy changes, a fiscal 2027 employee health insurance recommendation and Head Start funding applications.

Source: Champaign County Regional Planning Commission, Invitation to Bid: Indoor Climate Research & Training Facility, https://ccrpc.org/bid_detail_T5_R29.php; RPC Commissioners Meeting agenda, Oct. 23, 2026, https://www.ccrpc.org/RPC%20Meeting%20Agenda%2010-23-2026.pdf (both read Oct. 22, 2026).

Updated, Oct. 22, 2026: This story was updated after the 2 p.m. bid deadline passed.

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