Lakeville committee recommends Page Building Construction after $11.717 million low bid for new fire station

The Town of Lakeville Fire Station Building Committee voted on Sept. 10 to recommend that the Select Board award the construction contract for the town's new fire station to Page Building Construction Company of Dalton, Massachusetts, based on the low bid of $11,717,000.

Committee members and the owner's project manager said the bid came in well below the project's original early construction estimate and that the low bids were closely clustered, a sign they said of a competitive bidding process. The committee's vote sends a formal recommendation to the Select Board, which the committee expects to consider at an upcoming meeting on Sept. 16.

The recommendation follows a multi-year project development process that the owner's project manager and architects described at the meeting. The project team said they prequalified 15 general contractors before issuing the bid package and received eight bids. The committee's cost estimate had been about $17.3 million in an early figure…