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Council declines to award $4.4 million Pepin Creek/Pine Street bridge contract after 3-1 vote
Summary
Councilors rejected the recommended award to DeKoster Excavating, the lowest responsive bidder at $4,416,993.84, with the motion failing on a 3-1 vote; the construction management agreement was pulled for later consideration.
The Lynden City Council voted not to award the Pepin Creek/Pine Street bridge contract after reviewing six responsive bids. DeKoster Excavating, Inc. submitted the lowest responsive bid for the base bid plus Alternate A1 at $4,416,993.84, including Washington state sales tax, but the motion to award failed 3-1: Councilor Lee Beld was the lone vote in favor while Councilors Gary Bode, Brent Lenssen and Kyle Strengholt opposed the award.
The project scope includes excavation and grading for a new Pepin Creek channel, construction of a single-span prestressed precast concrete hollow core bridge with shallow foundations and associated approach work, sidewalks, storm drainage, water main and retaining walls. The engineer's estimate for the Base Bid was approximately $4.3 million and $5.7 million for Base Bid plus Alternate A1, per the staff report. Council deferred action on the related construction management agreement with Reichhardt & Ebe Engineering, which has a proposed not-to-exceed cost of $589,955.37.
Public Works staff had earlier recommended awarding the contract to DeKoster as the lowest responsive bidder. The council did not provide a final award or direction in the meeting and the item remains unresolved; the construction management agreement was pulled with no action taken. The next procedural steps were not specified during the meeting.
