Commissioners take bids under advisement for highway garage and assessor reassessment RFPs

Cass County commissioners took bids under advisement on responses to a request for proposals for a new highway garage and on a single bid for assessor office reassessment work.

County staff read two responses to the highway garage RFP and one response to the assessor's reassessment solicitation; commissioners voted to take the bids under advisement so staff and commissioners can review the proposals in detail.

At the meeting staff reported one highway-garage RFP response from a team identified in the transcript as "J B K Development, DLZ and R.R. Yoder Construction" with a stated guaranteed maximum price of $8,664,126. Staff also read a second highway-garage bid listed in the transcript as $10,595,000 from a bidder the transcript associated with Steinberger Construction and engineering partners. For the assessor's reassessment RFP staff reported a single bid from Ad Dolorem (transcript spelling) for $750,720 and said the assessor should review that bid to ensure it meets specifications.

After staff finished reading the submitted proposals, a commissioner moved to take the bids under advisement; another commissioner seconded the motion and the commission approved the motion by voice vote. No formal roll-call vote or named vote tally was recorded in the transcript.

Commissioners did not award any contracts during the meeting; taking bids under advisement means staff and elected officials will complete a review before any procurement award or further action.

Speakers relevant to this agenda item included Jeff Smith (staff reading the bids) and Kathy (assessor; first name only in transcript), and commissioners who moved and seconded the motion were not individually named on the record.

Officials asked that a copy of one of the bid proposals be left with the commissioners' office so they could review it further.