Council recommends Grayson Carter for annual concrete and equipment contract

City purchasing staff recommended awarding the city’s annual labor, equipment and concrete contract (bid 25029) to Grayson Carter and presented a bid tab showing comparative totals from three respondents.

“My name is Jeremy Sheryl. I manage the purchasing department,” said Jeremy Sheryl during the presentation. He described the procurement as an annual contract renewal with 61 line‑item prices that the city can use as needed during the year and said three bidders responded. Sheryl said the bid tab initially omitted a column that has since been corrected and offered to provide additional copies to council members.

Sheryl provided comparative sums reported on the corrected bid tab: Rogers Group at about 3,300,000; Wiregrass at about 3,800,000; and Grayson Carter at approximately 1,800,000 (figures stated in the meeting were rounded and presented by the purchasing staff). The staff recommendation was to select Grayson Carter as the lowest evaluated bidder for the annual contract. The transcript does not record a formal roll-call vote or funding source beyond the budgeted appropriations referenced by staff.

The council acknowledged the recommendation; the item was presented as a routine procurement action for council approval.