Klamath County commissioners approve fairgrounds maintenance shop bid, renew software license and OK several grants and contract amendments

Klamath County commissioners on July 22 approved a set of routine procurement, grant and contract items, including awarding a bid to build a new maintenance shop at the Klamath County Fairgrounds and renewing an enterprise software license used across county departments.

The actions were taken at a regularly scheduled Board of Commissioners business meeting that included commissioners Nichols and Minty; Commissioner de Groot was noted as outside the office and absent for the session.

The most substantive item was acceptance of the low responsive bid to build a prefabricated 2,400-square-foot maintenance shop at 3531 South Sixth Street at the Klamath County Fairgrounds and Event Center. Derek Rowley, who the record names in the motion as the county contact for contract negotiations, presented the procurement background and said the county received seven bids. The board recorded the winning bidder as Wickwire Contracting LLC at $333,080.25 and authorized contract…