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Choctaw County reviews revised jail design and contractor bid totaling about $9.97 million
Summary
At a special Choctaw County Commission meeting April 17, county officials reviewed a redesigned jail plan and a reduced proposal from Beasley Construction that county staff say brings the combined construction cost to about $9.97 million; no formal award was recorded in the meeting.
At a special meeting of the Choctaw County Commission on April 17, 2025, county officials reviewed a revised design for a new county jail and a reduced bid from Beasley Construction, with county architects reporting a combined construction total of $9,966,212.
Mike Rudland, introduced at the meeting as the county architect, told commissioners the project went through value-engineering efforts that together reduced construction costs by roughly $773,000 while also adding the bed space required by ongoing litigation. "His base bid was reduced, by some $429,000 even," Rudland said, summarizing the contractor's revisions.
The cost figures presented to the commission were a Beasley Construction base bid of $8,697,000 and a modular unit package whose price fell from about $1,577,000 to about $1,269,000; Rudland gave the combined total as…
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