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Danbury board rejects apparent low bidder for school elevator after performance complaints, awards contract to next-lowest bidder
Summary
After reading letters documenting years of delays and construction defects on a previous project, the Board of Awards declined to award the Hayestown Avenue School elevator contract to the apparent low bidder and approved awarding the project to the next-lowest bidder, citing schedule and ADA-compliance risks.
The Danbury Board of Awards voted June 25 to decline the apparent low bidder and award the Hayestown Avenue School elevator contract to the next-lowest bidder after staff and outside reviewers raised performance and schedule concerns.
Purchasing Agent Chuck Bolkier read two letters into the record describing problems on a prior project performed by Diversity Construction Group, the apparent low bidder at $958,000. A letter from Assistant Fire Chief William Lounsbury described the earlier Station 26 addition as “plagued with delays, substandard workmanship and unresolved deficiencies,” and said numerous trades delivered work below…
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