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Nelson County board finds apparent low bidder nonresponsive, moves to award Social Services building contract to next-lowest bidder
Summary
The Nelson County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved Resolution R2025-52 on July 14, 2025, declaring Wall Construction, LLC the apparent low bidder for IFB#2025-NCDSS nonresponsive for omitting a required 3,000-cubic-yard sitework allowance and authorized intent to award the contract to Coleman-Adams Construction Inc., pending final evaluation.
The Nelson County Board of Supervisors on July 14 adopted Resolution R2025-52, authorizing staff to notify Wall Construction, LLC that its bid for the Social Services office building (IFB#2025-NCDSS) is not responsive and expressing the board’s intent to award the contract to Coleman-Adams Construction Inc., pending a favorable evaluation of that bidder’s responsiveness and responsibility. The motion carried unanimously (4-0).
The resolution recites that bids were received on July 2, 2025 and publicly opened on July 3, 2025. County staff and the county’s procurement adviser reviewed the apparent low bid submitted by Wall Construction, LLC and found it omitted a required Sitework Allowance of 3,000 cubic yards of undercut and backfill described in Section 012110 of the IFB. The IFB and the Virginia Public Procurement Act (VPPA) require that an award be made only to a bidder who is both…
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