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Bids are ball-park for Fox Chase project

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By KEVIN NEVERS

The bids are in for the Fox Chase Farm/Whispering Sands sanitary sewer connection.

And they’re ball-park.

At a special meeting this morning, the Chesterton Utility Service Board voted 3-0 to take the four bids under advisement. Members Scot McCord and Jim Raffin were not in attendance.

The bids:

* Gatlin Plumbing & Heating Inc. of Griffith: $1,672,726.

* Hasse Construction Company Inc. of Calumet City, Ill.: $1,705,495.

* Selge Construction Company Inc. of Niles, Mich.: $1,750,990.

* G.E. Marshall Inc. of Valparaiso: $1,980,368.50.

The lowest bid on paper, Gatlin’s, is only 10 percent higher than the estimate made by the project’s contracted engineering consultant, McMahon Engineers/Architects: $1,514,000.

Town Attorney Chuck Lukmann told the Chesterton Tribune after the meeting that staff will now review the bids to ensure that they are all responsive and the bidders themselves responsible.

The point of the project is to provide sewer service to two Liberty Township developments whose own systems are failing: to Fox Chase Farms, an 88-unit single-family subdivision with a collapsing septic mound system, located south of C.R. 900N and west of Meridian Road; and the Whispering Sands, a mobile home park with am obsolete package plant.

The two developments will be connected--via a new line going north up Meridian Road, then east along C.R. 900N--to the new lift station serving the Ind. 49 utility corridor. The project’s total estimated cost: $2.1 million.

The State Revolving Fund is financing the project with a 20-year 0-percent loan and a $750,000 grant. None of the cost will be borne by Chesterton’s current ratepayers.

 

 

Posted 2/25/2015

 
 

 

 

 

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