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Rusk County opens bids for culverts, milling and paving services
Summary
At a county procurement meeting, staff read dozens of line-item bids from multiple suppliers for culverts, arch pipe, milling, pulverizing and hot‑mix asphalt. Key bids included WK Construction for profile milling and Monarch for hot‑mix asphalt; no formal contract awards were recorded in the transcript.
Rusk County opened and read bids for road materials and services, including culverts, arch pipe, profile milling, pulverizing and hot‑mix asphalt. County staff read per‑foot and per‑section prices from multiple suppliers and per‑square‑yard or per‑ton bids from contractors for milling and paving work.
The bids will be used to award contracts for upcoming county roadway projects referenced in the readout, including work on County W and Old 14 Road and a planned hot‑mix asphalt purchase sourced from a Best Way pit. County staff read detailed pricing from multiple vendors for corrugated metal and plastic culverts, galvanized and steel arch pipe, and end sections; they also read competing milling and pulverizing bids and a hot‑mix asphalt bid from Monarch.
County staff first read line‑item pricing for culvert materials from several suppliers, including entries labeled in the transcript as Pennant, Central Culverts and Supply, True North Steel (and related vendors listed), First Water Works and Highway Construction Products. The readouts included per‑foot prices by diameter and gauge, and per‑section prices for end sections and couplers. Staff summarized similarly detailed price tables for arch pipe and galvanized pipe. One speaker in the readout said, “Pennant is the company,” while another closed the segment by saying, “That’s all the bids.” (Attributions to “Speaker 2” and “Speaker 1” are used because the transcript does not provide personal names.)
For profile milling and pavement operations, WK Construction submitted multiple options. WK’s read prices included a 1.5‑inch profile mill at 44 cents per square yard for an approximate 65,000 square‑yard quantity (total shown in the readout as $28,600) and a 1‑inch profile mill at 33 cents per square yard (approximate total $21,450 for 65,000 square yards). WK’s readout also listed mobilization fees and said the company would provide additional quotes for project‑specific work when needed. Separate bidders submitted alternate milling rates and different mobilization terms.
Monarch submitted a hot‑mix asphalt bid covering an approximate 21,500‑ton purchase with a pit location listed as Best Way and a pit price of $55.55 per ton. The Monarch readout included a note about a milling‑to‑plant credit: hauling millings from County W to the Best Way plant would be credited at $5.50 per ton on the Best Way scale.
The readout also included competing quotations for pulverizing and reclaiming work, with multiple bidders listing per‑square‑yard rates and mobilization fees for county parking lots and roadway areas. Specific pulverizing quantities and totals were read but varied across bidders in the transcript and in some cases were difficult to parse; the transcript does not record any formal contract awards or clarifying staff recommendations in this session.
No motions, votes or contract awards were recorded in the provided transcript excerpt. The session consisted of staff reading bid tables aloud for the procurement record; the county will proceed per its procurement procedures to evaluate bids and determine contract awards after this opening.
Details read into the record by county staff may be used to prepare formal bid tabulations and award recommendations; the transcript does not include those later steps or a timetable for award.
