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Knox County opens bids for sheriff's office maintenance building and jail security retrofit; county to verify low bidder
Summary
At its Aug. 12 meeting the Knox County Board of Commissioners opened five bids for a sheriff's office maintenance building and two bids for a jail security retrofit. County staff said all bids qualify and will be reviewed by the architect before any award; the county named a low bidder pending verification.
The Knox County Board of Commissioners opened public bid packages on Aug. 12 for two sheriff's office projects: a new maintenance building and a jail security system retrofit.
The Chair read five bids for the maintenance building and announced the amounts submitted. The bids listed in the record were: Chamberlin Group Inc., $399,516; Knocks Concrete Construction, $408,875; Sederland Building Company, $474,079; Modern Builders, $535,760; and Adena Corporation, $400,225. Committee member who reviewed the submissions told the board that all five bids qualified and that the county would hand the packages to its architect for verification and compliance checks before any award or contract is issued.
"Based on what was received, all five of the bids are qualifying bids, and the low bidder is Modern Builders. So we will verify that," the Committee member said. The board said staff and the architect will review the bids and contact the low bidder with next steps, pending verification.
The board also opened two envelopes for the jail security system retrofit. One package, accompanied by bond documentation from CNA Surety, carried a total of $347,445. A second bid from Security Automated Systems was read at $156,000. Later in the meeting a staff member corrected the record to say that AE Security Group was the firm associated with the bid/bond envelope and that CNA had provided the surety/bond documentation rather than acting as the bidder.
County staff and commissioners emphasized that reading the bids at the meeting is an administrative step and that bids will be checked by the architect and procurement staff for compliance before any contract is awarded. No award or contract was finalized at the meeting.
Next steps: the architect and county procurement staff will verify bid compliance and, if everything is in order, notify the apparent low bidder to begin negotiations or contract-processing steps.
