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Westwood Heights Board approves card-access system contract for district buildings
Summary
The Westwood Heights Board of Education voted to award a card-access system contract to Nerds Express to replace keys across district doors; staff said the system will improve security and tracking though questions about labor rates and prevailing-wage status remained.
The Westwood Heights Schools Board of Education voted to award a card-access system contract to Nerds Express, approving a base bid of $162,316.40 plus a 10% contingency of $16,231.64 for a total contract amount of $178,548.04.
Board members said the system will replace most hard keys across the district’s five buildings and allow officials to deactivate individual access cards when staff leave. “All we have to do is replace a card,” said Anthony, a district staff member who presented the project and described the system’s features. He said the district has about 77 doors that could be configured for card access and…
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