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.