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Carmel awards equipment and seeks installers to upgrade school-zone signs to solar
Summary
The board opened bids for school-zone signage installation and approved purchase of solar-enabled equipment to standardize Carmel Clay Schools’ school-zone signs.
The Board of Public Works and Safety on Sept. 3 opened bids for installation of Carmel school-zone signage and approved a separate purchase of traffic control and signal equipment designed to standardize and solar-power signs at Carmel Clay Schools.
Director of Engineering Brad Pease presented bid openings for the installation work. Bids reported in the record were: Morphy Construction Inc. at $103,000; Midwestern Electric LLC at $152,200; and TC Electric Inc. at $206,050. The board noted those bids will be turned over to the Carmel Police Department and engineering for final consideration.
Separately the board approved a $261,567 purchase from RTC Manufacturing Inc. for the equipment portion of the school-zone project. Jared Huff, City of Carmel Department of Engineering, said the equipment includes flashers, poles and radar feedback signs and that the city is moving to “all solar equipment now,” which will replace some hard-line systems. Quote: “Yeah. The RTC, provides both, but we are going with, all solar equipment now,” Huff said. He added the new system will allow remote access so staff can update schedules without visiting each sign.
Huff and Pease confirmed the recent quote opening covered installation services and that the equipment purchase approved at the meeting covers only hardware; the installation contract will be evaluated based on the bids opened today. The board approved the equipment purchase and accepted the bid openings by voice vote.
The change is intended to standardize equipment types across the school system, which Pease said currently has a “hodgepodge of different types of equipment.”
