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University Place opens bids for UP School Crosswalk; South Pacific appears as apparent low bidder
Summary
University Place’s Public Works Department opened seven bids for the UP School Crosswalk project; staff identified South Pacific as the apparent low bidder and said the city will verify bids before seeking council award, likely at the May 4 meeting.
University Place Public Works Director Jack Eklund opened a virtual bid reading for the UP School Crosswalk project and said seven firms submitted proposals. Eklund reviewed each package for completeness — checking signatures, addenda acknowledgement, bid bonds, responsible-bidder forms and subcontractor disclosures — and read the totals reported on the signature pages.
Eklund identified South Pacific as the apparent low bidder; during the reading he announced the company's total as "$1,229,434.00" and said the city would verify documents and timestamps before moving to award. "Our low bidder is South Pacific," Eklund said, adding staff will "check the math" and post the official bid results on the engineering active projects page later that day or the following morning.
Staff confirmed the engineer's estimate for the project was $1.2 million. Eklund said, "assuming everything checks out," staff plans to bring an award recommendation to the next council meeting, which could be as early as May 4; he emphasized the award is contingent on verification of filings and compliance with bid requirements.
During the bid reading Eklund reviewed the following submissions as recorded in the transcript: Puget Paving (signature page and compliance items present; total amount as spoken in the recording is not clearly transcribed), Northwest Cascade (transcript line: "1,000,600 and $34,436 and zero cents"), Mid Mountain ($1,849,000.00), Axom (transcript line: "1,000,430 thousand $0.01"), South Pacific ($1,229,434.00), RW Scott (transcript line: "1,000,400 and 18,527 and four cents"), and Secante (transcript line: "1,000,000, $444,444.50, 50"). Where the spoken numeric totals were unclear or fragmented in the recording, the article notes that the transcript rendering is garbled and that the city will publish verified totals with the posted bid results.
Eklund asked bidders to notify staff through the Q&A/chat if they believe a submission failed to arrive (staff said they would check spam filters and timestamps). He thanked bidders and said the project aims to improve safety for neighborhood schoolchildren.
The bid opening was procedural; no award or motion was made during the session. The city will publish verified results on the projects page and, if checks are satisfactory, forward an award recommendation to the City Council for formal action at an upcoming meeting.
