Le Mars council rejects bids for downtown traffic signal modernization, plans rebid

The Le Mars City Council voted to reject all bids for the downtown traffic signal modernization project and instructed staff to rebid the work with revised specifications and a later completion date.

City staff recommended rejecting the bids after receiving only a single responsive bid and identified several changes to the bid package intended to increase competition, including converting some lump-sum items to unit-price items, shortening the maintenance bond for concrete from four years to two years, and providing clearer concrete specifications. "The recommendation is gonna be to reject and and rebid," said Jason, a city staff member, adding that the revised schedule would move project…