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Board tables $17.7M remedial sewer bid and directs staff to explore rebidding and project packaging
Summary
After engineering bids exceeded estimates by roughly $6 million, the board voted to table multiple construction awards (items 2–5) and asked staff to examine splitting large projects into smaller packages and to assess program management options for consent-decree work.
City staff presented the apparent low bid of $17,741,776.50 for the SSA remedial measures project (project 17‑13), a result notably higher than the engineer’s estimate. Engineering representatives from Hawkins & Weir explained that the discrepancy is largely unit‑price driven and that the 30,000 linear-feet scope could be naturally split into east and west halves.
Public commenters called for caution. Joy McCutcheon said the city…
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