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County seeks to salvage landfill expansion after single high bid; value-engineering trims $11M
Summary
Pitkin County officials said the solid waste center expansion received a single prime bid above the engineer's estimate; after value engineering — including removing one nonessential building and re-scoping solar and subcontractor items — estimated costs fell from ~$39–40M toward about $28M for essential facilities, with further pricing and schedule steps planned this summer.
Pitkin County public works officials told the Board of County Commissioners that the county’s landfill expansion solicitation produced a single prime bid that exceeded internal estimates, prompting a value-engineering effort to preserve core operations while reducing capital cost.
Public works director Brian Pedram said the solicitation closed with one bidder, FCI, whose proposal came in a little over $40 million compared with the project engineer’s estimate of about $31 million. The team immediately began value-engineering discussions with the prime contractor to bring the project into a viable budget range.
Tyler Carbel, the county’s solid-waste manager, described targeted reductions that would preserve essential capacity…
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