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Upper Dublin recommends rejecting two unsuccessful fire-alarm bids; administration to pursue CoStars vendor

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Summary

After two procurement attempts produced either noncompliant or unexpectedly high bids, the district recommended rejecting all bids for a multi-building fire-alarm project and pursuing a state CoStars contract vendor for next-summer installation.

The district reported June 18 that two public-bid attempts for a multi-school fire-alarm replacement produced unsatisfactory results and recommended the Finance Committee forward a formal rejection of the bids and move the work to a CoStars state-contract procurement.

Background: initial bids were higher than anticipated. One subsequent bidder was disqualified for failing to meet bid-bond/document requirements and another declined contract terms,…

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