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Finance Committee moves several routine actions to legislative session; rejects fire-alarm bids for rebid

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Summary

The committee voted to forward recommendations on rejecting current fire alarm bids, accept a summer paving bid package and move budget and tech purchases to the legislative meeting. A planned $3 million transfer to the capital reserve was recommended for the board’s legislative agenda.

At its March 19 meeting the Upper Dublin School District Finance Committee agreed to forward several procurement and budget recommendations to the board’s legislative session, including rejecting the current fire-alarm bids and advancing a summer paving contract and a proposed $3 million capital-reserve transfer.

Fire alarm bids: consultants reported three bids were received March 12 for the fire-alarm upgrade; the lowest monetary bid (about $1.4 million from Ford Brothers) was declared non‑responsive and disqualified for missing required information. The lowest qualified bid was reported at $2.3 million. The committee voted to recommend rejecting the bids and rebidding the project…

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