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Commission approves May bid awards, including dynamic message-board contract
Summary
Commission awarded multiple contracts from May 20 and May 27 lettings totaling several million dollars, approved a single-bid dynamic message-board contract and rejected no recommended awards; Commissioners recorded a recusal on the DMS vote.
Sam Grama, from the project development office, presented results from two recent lettings. He said the May 20 opening included 10 contracts with low bids totaling $8,096,000 — about 2 percent below the engineering estimate — and staff recommended awards for projects 1–5, 7, 8, 10 and 11 after bid review. "The low bids for those 10 contracts on May 20, total 8,096,000, which was a 164,000 or 2% below the engineers estimate of 8,260,000," Grama reported.
Grama then described the May 27 letting (project 6), where BX Veil and Construction was the lone bidder at $5,586,000, about 3.8 percent below the engineer's estimate, for installation of dynamic message signs at 16 locations. Commissioners asked operational questions; staff explained message content is typically prepared by field offices using stock messages and that boards are updated remotely. A roll-call vote approved the recommended awards; one commissioner recused from the DMS vote because of the conflict disclosed earlier.
