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Watertown council awards $2.87M 5th Avenue reconstruction contract after local bidder protests
Summary
Council approved a $2,870,000 contract to Site Works Inc for the 5th Avenue North Reconstruction despite a J and J Earthworks protest that it was excluded from the plan holders list and lost the project by about $40,000; the city attorney said statutory procurement requirements were met.
The Watertown City Council on Feb. 17 approved a $2,870,000 contract award to Site Works Inc for the 5th Avenue North Reconstruction (Project No. 2503), voting to accept the lowest responsible bid after a local bidder, J and J Earthworks, protested the process.
Kyle Paulson of J and J Earthworks told the council he was the second-low bidder and said the company was not added to the plan holders list despite requesting to be. Paulson said that omission prevented the firm from obtaining a concrete subcontractor quote that would have reduced his bid by $156,000 and made his company the low bidder by roughly $40,000. "We would have been the low bid had the procedure…
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