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Middletown opens bids for courthouse project; council refers packages to public works
Summary
The Middletown council opened multiple bid packages for a courthouse construction project, including general-construction (GC) and trade-specific contracts. Council voted to refer all submitted bids to the Commissioner of Public Works for review and recommendation to the common council.
Middletown’s common council opened and read aloud bids for the city’s courthouse project and referred the submissions to staff for review. “Item 1 is the bid opening for the courthouse project,” the presiding speaker said as staff read base bids, allowances and additive pricing for multiple contractors.
Bids for the general-construction contract and trade packages were read on the record. Contracts and amounts reported in the transcript included: Iron Sword Enterprises (base bid recorded as $2,428,000; allowance $173,000; total reported $2,601,000); Winco Builders LLC (base $2,286,000; allowance $173,000; total $2,459,000); Barone Construction Group (base reported in the record near $2.6–2.65M with a $173,000 allowance and total reported $2,800,000); and other GC bidders whose base and additive amounts were read into the record. Trade packages included mechanical (contract 1b) bids such as TMB (base $1,087,000; $50,000 allowance) and DJ Heating (base $974,000), plumbing/fire protection (contract 1c) from Arrow Plumbing (base $444,000; $15,000 allowance) and electrical (contract 1d) from Electro Construction / Harry Rotolo and Sons (base $524,744; $30,000 allowance). In every case staff noted that addendums were acknowledged and that a bid bond was included.
After the bids were read, Speaker 1 moved to refer the bids to the Commissioner of Public Works "for review and recommendation to the common council." The motion was moved by Massey and seconded on the record; the council recorded a voice vote with members answering “Aye.”
Why it matters: the referral starts the administrative review that typically verifies bidder compliance with documents, evaluates low bids and prepares a recommendation for eventual award. Council members did not take an award vote at this meeting; the action was limited to referring the bids for staff review.
What’s next: staff from public works will review the bids and return a recommendation to the council; no contract awards were made at this meeting.
