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Prattville council rejects bids for North Highland Park after estimates double
Summary
The City Council adopted a consent resolution rejecting all bids for North Highland Park after city engineers said bids came in about twice the estimate; city staff said $650,000 remained in the project budget and about $300,000 had already been spent.
The Prattville City Council on July (date not specified) adopted a consent resolution rejecting all bids for the North Highland Park improvements after the lowest bids came in roughly twice the project estimate.
Krebs Engineering project manager Ray Womack told the council the bids received last week were “about twice what our estimate was,” and recommended the city reject them and return to the original tiered design. “We recommended to Kelly to go back to a tiered design on the lower court system,” Womack said, explaining that a tiered approach would reduce wall height and that breaking the work into multiple bid packages could attract smaller contractors.
The rejection of bids was included as Resolution Number 16 on the meeting’s consent agenda, which the…
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