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San Mateo council awards Central Park playground contract after value engineering; $10,000 donation accepted
Summary
The council voted 4-0 on March 3 to accept a $10,000 donation and award a construction contract to Suarez and Munoz Construction Inc. for the Central Park Adventure Village playground, authorizing a total of $9,758,652 including contingency.
The San Mateo City Council on March 3 approved awarding a construction contract for the Central Park Playground Improvements project and accepted a $10,000 donation from the Parks and Recreation Foundation in honor of retiring director Sheila Kansian.
Staff presented a multi-year history of the project and explained value-engineering steps that reduced an initial low bid of $11.5 million to a negotiated contract price of $8,485,784. The council adopted a resolution authorizing the donation appropriation and awarding the contract to Suarez and Munoz Construction Inc., plus a contingency of $1,272,868, for a total authorization of $9,758,652. The motion passed on a 4-0 roll call.
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