Commissioners reject jail HVAC bids for errors, accept low bidder for highway barn; several procurement items tabled or approved

Commissioners followed their consultant’s recommendation to reject both bids submitted for the HBAC (jail HVAC) renovation after Argo Consulting Engineers found significant discrepancies between itemized proposal sheets and the contractors’ Form 96 submissions.

Tony Jacobs said one contractor’s proposal sheets and Form 96 did not add up — "one is off by 965,000; the other one’s off by 322" — and another contractor omitted a unit-cost sheet. Jacobs recommended rebidding with corrected documents, scheduling a public walk-through (proposed as early as June 16) and publishing revised bid documents; commissioners voted to reject the current submissions and proceed with a rebid.

On a separate procurement item, commissioners reviewed and accepted the AIA contract for the highway barn project, noting the low bidder was deemed capable. The transcript records a bid amount transcribed as "$575,1949"; commissioners directed staff to verify the precise contract value and complete signatures.

Other procurement actions: a $1,200 GIS map-data agreement lacked vendor details and was tabled for two weeks until staff could provide full documentation; one construction invoice for a morgue item was held for further review at the next meeting.

What happens next: the county will rebid the jail HVAC project with clarified documents and a scheduled walk-through; staff will confirm the highway barn contract amount in the record and circulate full vendor details for the GIS agreement before the next meeting.