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 may be paid by the successful vendor to its employees who perform the work on the State contracts.  The offeror, in order to be considered to be a responsible offeror for the purposes of this Part, must 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.  Prevailing wages and working conditions are determined by the Director of the Illinois Department of Labor.

2)         Whenever a collective bargaining agreement is in effect between an employer, other than governmental body, and service or printing employees as defined in this Section who are represented by a responsible organization that is in no way influenced or controlled by the management, that agreement and its provisions will be considered as conditions prevalent in that locality and will be the minimum requirements taken into consideration by the Director of Labor.

3)         Collective bargaining agreements between State employees and the State of Illinois will not be taken into account by the Department of Labor in determining the prevailing wage rate.

b)         As used in this Section, "services" means janitorial cleaning services, window cleaning 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.

c)         For printing contracts, location 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)         Where 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.  Where 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 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.

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.