At their meeting on Monday, April 3, the Flandreau city council awarded the bid for phases two and three of the water and wastewater replacement project along 1st Avenue.
A bid opening was held on March 15 and the city received three bids: H & W Contracting out of Sioux Falls for $5,699,142.45, Carstensen Contracting out of Pipestone for $6,538,252.95 and Duininck out of Prinsburg, Minn. for $6,917,533.40.
Dave Burwitz from Clark Engineering attended the meeting and recommended the council award the base bid. He also recommended they choose an alternate for surfacing along West Street, on which the council has asked for pricing.
There are enough funds remaining from the first phase of the project for the base bid from H & W in the amount of $3,991,860.40, which replaces the water, sewer and storm sewer lines on First Avenue from Veterans Street to the water tower on Lindsay Street.
The surfacing alternate on West Street from First Avenue to Bridge Avenue (2 blocks) will have to be funded by the city. Council members preferred the option of six inches asphalt estimated by the low bidder at $53,576.25.
They also discussed second and third bid alternates, which include the replacement of additional water and sewer lines. The city has enough funding to do Alternate 2, but not enough sewer funding without needing additional funds.
Bid Alternate 2 would cost $712,474.40 and the city will have to borrow an additional $480,000 for Rural Development, who has overseen the project. Bid Alternate 3 will be added to a future project.
The city council members approved to award the base bid plus the surfacing alternate and Alternate 2 to H & W Contracting in the amount of $4,757,911.05 with Alternate 2 contingent on the receipt of additional funds from Rural Development.
