West Contracting was awarded a $285,151.80 contract Monday to asphalt overlay Owensville streets for the city’s summer paving project.
West Contracting was the low bidder by $4,032.20. Pierce Asphalt, LLC, bid the city’s 2021 work at $289,184. A third bid, submitted by Capital Paving, came in at $348,313.95.
West Contracting will be required to submit a bid bond before the contract will be awarded, according to the motion by Ward 2 Alderman Charles “Rob” Borgmann which was approved on a 4-0 voice vote.
The contract includes a base bid of $260,109.80 for a 2-inch asphalt overlay and wedge milling on South Fourth from Highway 28 to West Jackson, South Fourth from West Jackson to the end of the city curbing, South Fourth from the end of the curbing to Southridge Lane, North Second from West Sears to McFadden Avenue, North Second from West McFadden to Marvin Avenue, and Hillcrest Drive from the box culvert to, and including, the cul-de-sac.
The contract also includes three options listed as A, B, and C.
Option A includes a 7-foot wedge mill on the east side of North Fourth Street, from Highway 28 to to where it dead ends, and a 2-inch overlay for $4,732.60.
Option B includes a 3-inch overlay on West Washington Avenue from North Third to where it dead ends for$11,100.
Option C includes $9,209.40 worth of work to provide a 3-inch “full-milling” of the alley behind the ambulance district’s building and a 3-inch overlay.
Bids were opened May 24.
Before work on Second Street commences, the city’s public works employees will replace a 4-inch cast iron water main with a 6-inch PVC line from Marvin to the current police station on the corner of West Sears and Second. Aldermen on a 4-0 voice vote awarded a supply bid for materials worth $13,496.23 to Core & Main. Schulte Supply bid the materials at $14,481.
Jeff Kuhne, public works director, said the section of pipe being replaced has required numerous repairs in recent years as evident by the number of patches along the block-long stretch of roadway behind the city hall building.
Aldermen on a 4-0 vote also awarded the “guaranteed” heating fuel bid for propane to Three Rivers Propane for $1.32 a gallon. MFA Oil bid the fuel at $1.429 a gallon. The city’s contract for 2020 was 87 cents a gallon.
Bids were opened June 9.