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Coffee County committee awards $3.45 million health‑department construction contract
Summary
The Capital Outlay Committee voted to award the health department construction contract to Boyce Ballard Construction as the low bidder at $3,448,000, clearing procedural questions after review by the county attorney.
Coffee County Capital Outlay Committee members voted to award the construction contract for a new county health department to Boyce Ballard Construction, the committee heard.
The committee approved a recommendation from Saint John Engineering to select Boyce Ballard Construction as the low bidder at $3,448,000. Scott, a representative from Saint John Engineering, summarized the bid tabulation and recommended the award after county legal review resolved earlier bid-envelope questions.
The award matters because it moves a long‑planned replacement health facility into procurement and construction after protests and administrative issues were resolved. Scott told the committee that the county attorney had cleared the procurement issue and that the low bid demonstrated competitive pricing among the bottom bidders.
Motion and vote: Commissioner Hollsworth made the motion to accept Boyce Ballard Construction as the low bidder; Commissioner Watkins seconded. The committee voted in favor; the motion carried.
Committee members said the project has been long in development and thanked county staff, the mayor and health‑department personnel for their work on the procurement timeline. No schedule for groundbreaking was announced in the committee discussion recorded in the meeting.
The committee did not identify additional legal authorities beyond standard procurement review; Saint John Engineering presented the formal recommendation and the procurement will proceed under the county’s normal contracting process.
