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Highland Park opens bids for Ives Field Park renovations; council refers bids to administration for review
Summary
Council opened and read multiple bids for Ives Field Park renovation and playground work, including a $105,000 bid from Sinclair Recreation, then voted to close bidding and refer all submissions to city administration for evaluation.
The Highland Park City Council opened sealed bids Monday for renovations to Ives Field Park and the adjacent playground and referred the submissions to city administration for review.
Clerk staff read bids from four firms for the field renovation and four for the playground work. Bidders for the park work included Sinclair Recreation of Holland, Michigan; Anglin Civil of Livonia; WCI Contractors of Detroit; and Midstates Recreation of Ohio. The clerk read unit prices and, where supplied, totals; Sinclair's bid for the park work was read as a total of $105,000.
During the reading, the clerk and city staff noted whether a bid bond was enclosed. The council voted to open both the park and playground bid sets together after staff noted some bidders had submitted combined packages. The roll call to open bids carried (Councilman Neshafi/Eschafti and others voting in favor; Council Pro Tem Robinson voted no on the opening motion as read into the record), and later the council voted to close bidding and refer all bids to the city administration for review.
A motion to close the bidding and send the submissions to city administration was made by Councilwoman Martin and seconded by Councilman Eschaffi. The roll call on that motion was unanimous in favor, and the council instructed staff to evaluate the bids and return recommendations to council at a later date.
The documentary bid details read into the record included unit prices for earthwork, asphalt, fencing and court surfacing and noted which bidder enclosed a bid bond. The council did not award the contract at the meeting; the action taken was to open bids publicly and to refer them for administrative review and recommendation.
Council members and staff discussed procedural issues, including reading bids into the record and whether two bid sets could be opened together because some proposals were submitted as combined packages. City staff indicated they would analyze pricing, bonds and scope overlap before returning to council with a contract recommendation.
