Wellington County has awarded the contract to install a roundabout at Teviotdale to The Murray Group.
On April 26, council approved a roads committee recommendation to award the tender for the work at the intersection of Wellington Roads 109, 123 and 7 to the Mapleton-based contractor, which submitted the lowest of five tenders received.
Tenders ranged from the Murray Group bid of $1,624,627 excluding HST to a high of $1,842,989 from Guelph-based Cox Construction.
Engineering fees, including fees incurred to date, are estimated at $225,100.
A report from county manger of purchasing and risk management services Mark Bolzon indicates initial project budget estimates of about $1.4 million were based on previous roundabouts and not the final design of this roundabout, “as it was not completed until this year due to changes in schedule.”
“Unit prices for completing the work are favourable and in line with increases seen across the industry so far this construction season.”
Council also approved drawing additional project funding from the roads development charge reserve fund and from the roads capital reserve.
Roads committee chair Gary Williamson noted tenders for the project were “very competitive.”
Sand dome tender
Also at the April 26 meeting, council awarded a tender for the construction a dome-style salt storage building at the new county garage in Drayton to Van Pelt Construction Inc., of Mitchell.
The company’s tender of $575,000, excluding HST, was the only bid for a dome-style building. A bid of $769,600 for a shed-style building was submitted by Storage Systems Construction of Erin.
Parking lot paving costs of $175,000, plus professional and contingency fees will bring the total cost of the project to $850,000.
