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Union urges review of Volta Elementary bidder; board pulls bid award
Summary
A NorCal Carpenters Union representative told the Los Banos Unified board the apparent bidder for the Volta Elementary modernization has a history of litigation and labor violations, prompting the district to pull the bid award and review bidder prequalification with counsel.
Palamon Fausto, a field representative for NorCal Carpenters Local 152, told the Los Banos Unified School District board that he had submitted documentation alleging problems with the bidder for the Volta Elementary modernization project and asked the district to review the firm's prequalification under state law.
"Bobo construction's questionable project completion history, litigation history, frequent regulatory and labor law violations" were included in the packet Fausto said he emailed to the district and provided for the record, a concern he said "raised doubts about their eligibility to be awarded the project under state law." Fausto identified himself at the…
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