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Council reviews Fairpool rehab bids; staff recommends awarding base bid and deferring HVAC alternate
Summary
City staff reported the pool‑rehab base bid was value‑engineered below its $1.25M budget after negotiations; an additive climate‑control alternate would add roughly $1.1M and prompted council concern about long‑term maintenance, so members favored moving forward with the base bid at the next meeting.
City staff advised the Fairhope City Council on Dec. 8 that only one qualified bidder responded to the Fairpool rehabilitation solicitation and that negotiations produced roughly $150,000 in savings on the base bid. The base bid — after value engineering — was presented as approximately $1.2 million, under the $1.25 million budget. An additive alternate to fully climate‑control the facility was priced at about $1.1 million.
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