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Bids To Build Boundary Road Under Review

By 250 News

Wednesday, June 16, 2010 04:00 AM

Prince George, B.C.- The City of Prince George has received three bids for the construction of Boundary Road.
1.      WIC Contractors                      $18,739,320.38
2.      IDL Contractors                       $20,923,952.00
3.      Jacob Bros Contracting             $22,656,000.00
 
The total tendered amounts do not include taxes, and the bids are under review at this time.
Staff will bring a report and their final recommendation to City Council on who should be awarded the tender.
 
The full project ( including drawings, engineering, geo technical work)  is pegged at costing   just below $28 million dollars with the Federal and Provincial governments each putting in $7.5 million, while the City and private developers will split the balance.
 
The City has already awarded the detailed design and construction management contract to L&M Engineering for just over $1.5 million dollars.

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Comment Posted by: DPJ on June 16 2010 9:58 AM
All are close in costs. there are other factors but will be a tough decision for council. My guess will be IDL.
Comment Posted by: interceptor on June 16 2010 10:08 AM
Isnt L&M Engineering a part of IDL? Since they have been awarded the "construction management" contract I suspect it would make sense for IDL to get the construction contract. It would be nice to see WIC get it, but they are both good local companies.
Comment Posted by: He spoke on June 16 2010 10:59 AM
Give it to the lowest qualified bidder. WIC.
Comment Posted by: Palopu on June 16 2010 1:30 PM
If you announce before hand the amount of money you have available for a project, ie: $15 Million from the Prov and Feds, $6 Million each from Private and City. This gives the Contractors a pretty good idea how much we are going to spend.

It like guessing the number of beans in a jar, but to make it easy you show the number on the outside. Just to help people, you know what I mean.

Comment Posted by: supertech on June 16 2010 10:18 PM
We are financially challenged as a city. One would expect people of good judgement to give it to the lowest bidder,but that bidder may have no influential friends on council ?? Is'nt that the way most contracts work?? It certainly is the way jobs are handed out in this world.