St. Lawrence County opens 32-line material bids for 2025 procurement

Good afternoon. My name is Stephanie Kerr. I'm the assistant purchasing agent for the county, and Alicia Barr is here today. We are opening material bids 2025-01.

St. Lawrence County purchasing staff opened sealed bids covering 32 material line items under Bid No. 2025-01, reading vendors and noting originals, copies, non-collusion, and insurance documents. The items included (but were not limited to) steel sheet piling; guide rails and posts; miscellaneous structural steel; lumber and splice; reinforcement rods; transit/mixed concrete; hot-mix asphalt; gravel, sand and crushed stone; corrugated culvert pipe (with an option to piggyback off New York State OGS contracts or other counties); explosives and accessories; geotextile; precast concrete systems; breakaway sign support systems (to be purchased off a New York State contract); cold in-place recycling and asphalt surface recycling; full-depth reclamation; micro-resurfacing; fiber-reinforced membranes; production cold milling; and reflective sheeting.

Stephanie Kerr, assistant purchasing agent for St. Lawrence County, read each line item aloud and identified the vendor packages received, noting when originals, copies, non‑collusion statements, insurance certificates, or technical/spec sheets accompanied a submission. In several cases Kerr noted that a previously awarded or piggybacked contract had been extended to a vendor for the coming year; for example, cold in-place recycling had been extended to Soufkopf through March 16 of next year, and some items had been extended to Kimco through March 12 of next year. Kerr said the county would review the submissions and contact vendors as needed.

The opening was administrative: staff recorded which vendors submitted bids for each numbered line item and collected accompanying documents. No contract awards, motions, or votes occurred during the session. Kerr emphasized that originals and copies would be kept together and that staff would follow up with vendors where copies or pages appeared misplaced or where envelope contents suggested multiple items were included together.

Vendors named during the opening included (examples drawn from the reading): Shamong/Shimong Supply, JP Building Supply, Cranesville Block, Upstone Materials, Heidelberg Materials, Sheehan (J.E. Sheehan), Cook Sand and Gravel, Harmer Construction, Stout Ready Mix, Wayne French, M & M Trucking, Allstate Construction (doing business as Boerming Construction in some items), Midland Asphalt Materials, Jefferson Concrete, Gorman Construction, Soufkopf, Vulcan Aluminum and others. Kerr also noted that for some items the county planned to buy off an existing New York State OGS (Office of General Services) contract or piggyback off other counties’ agreements.

Next steps: county purchasing staff will tabulate and evaluate the bids, verify documentation, and contact vendors to clarify submittals where necessary. Award decisions or recommendations, if any, will be made at a later date and in accordance with county procurement rules.