County architect recommends awarding health department contract with underground sanitary work; board to review intent to award

Boone County officials reviewed bids for a planned addition and renovation to the Health Department and voted to forward the architect’s recommendation — the apparent low base bid plus an underground sanitary sewer alternate — to the full county board as a notice of intent to award.

The architect, Chris Hansen of Kluber, told the committee that six qualified bids were received and that Scandroli Construction of Rockford, Illinois, submitted the low apparent base bid of $4,184,481. He said the architect’s recommendation was to accept the base bid and Alternate 1, the underground sanitary sewer, because that work would be difficult and expensive to add later. Hansen warned that the bid results left a budget gap driven largely by…