County awards Rancho Alegre drainage contract to RXDX after engineers flag low bid

Mar 28, 2026

After engineers judged the lowest bid for a CDBG drainage project to be unrealistically low, the court accepted the recommendation to award the contract to RXDX LLC for roughly $5.28 million and directed staff to include documentation of due diligence for the grant file.

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The Jim Wells County Commissioners Court voted to accept International Consulting Engineers’ recommendation and award the CDBG MIT Rancho Alegre drainage project to RXDX LLC at $5,282,995 after the lowest bidder (Blue Dot) submitted an amount that engineers said was below realistic cost expectations.

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