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Jobson Park design, bid results show lower-than-expected construction offers
Summary
Parks staff and consultants told the joint Town Council and 4B board that 15 firms bid on the Jobson Park package; the four lowest bids ranged roughly $6.66M–$7.50M and staff provided itemized alternate deductions to reduce scope if needed.
The Town Council and 4B EDC board reviewed bid results for Jobson Park on July 13 during a special joint meeting. Thomas Sanits, the town’s Parks and Recreation Director, said the town issued final construction documents in May, opened bids in mid‑June and received an unusually large response: 15 respondents. Sanits described the full‑scope base bid as including three baseball fields, two multipurpose fields, a walking trail, three pavilions, a restroom building, a playground, parking, field and trail lighting, perimeter berming and decorative fencing. “Those bids are the ones that you have in your packet,” Sanits told the board when he opened the public bid summary.
Consultants and staff said the four lowest bidders ranged from about $6.661 million to $7.496 million; other proposals extended to $10 million or more. Using the lowest bidder as a baseline, staff produced a menu of deductive alternates to help the town scale the project if necessary: removing one baseball field would reduce cost by roughly $800,000; eliminating the three picnic pavilions would lower cost by about $700,000; removing the playground would shave about $200,000; deleting the restroom building would be about $400,000; dropping multipurpose-field lighting was estimated at roughly $372,000; and trail and parking lights were about $86,000. Sanits also said the town has spent about $1.131 million on design so far and that the budget picture includes $8.3 million total (about $1.3M for design and $7.0M for construction) as the funding envelope.
Staff and consultants said they reviewed the low bid and checked alignment with other top bidders and vendor confirmations. A consultant representing the design team described the competitive bidding environment and said they had proactively answered bidder questions to reduce unknowns. The board requested that staff confirm contingency planning and the presence (or not) of contractor contingencies or allowances in the returned bids before moving to contract authorization. The meeting moved next to a sustained discussion about playing surface options and operations.
