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Town manager asks council to raise Beals Road bridge article after bid clerical error; council moves amended article to deliberative session
Summary
Town public-works officials told the council a clerical error in the low bid for the Beals Road bridge replacement could force award to the second-lowest bidder; the council moved a revised, higher not-to-exceed article amount to the deliberative session (7–0).
The Bedford Town Council heard a late update from Public Works Director Jeff Foote about bids opened for the Beals Road bridge replacement and the related Greenfield Parkway project. Foote reported a clerical error in the apparent low bidder’s submitted pricing that may prompt the Federal Highway Administration and the state to require the town to award to the next-lowest qualified bidder. That change would raise the project’s federal contract cost; Foote recommended…
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