Contractors are sharpening their pencils to keep busy and the result is a saving of $238,000 for Centre Wellington Township for work on Irvine Street.
Council approved the awarding of the low tender to Regional Sewer & Watermain, of Cambridge.
It had the lowest bid to reconstruct Irvine Street in Salem from Walser Street to about 450 metres north of Walser. The work includes the extension of municipal services.
The work includes:
– excavation of about 630 cubic metres of earth;
– providing 8,500 tonnes of granular material;
– installing 435 metres of sanitary sewers of all sizes;
– installing 436 metres of watermains of all sizes;
– 457 metres of storm sewers of all sizes;
– 16 maintenance holes and catch basins;
– 550 metres of concrete curb and gutter;
– 1,400 square metres of concrete sidewalks; and
– 600 tonnes of hot mix asphalt.
Treasurer Wes Snarr said in his report that the work is to start as soon as feasible in the spring, and is scheduled to be completed by July 17.
The approved budget for the work, struck in 2008, was $986,200.
Notable about the tender was the township sent applications to 15 firms, and another 21 companies picked up tenders. Seventeen of them submitted bids.
Snarr noted one was disqualified when the tenders were opened because it had made changes to the tender documents.
The high bid was $1.035-million, by Reeves Construction, of Mount Forest. Bidders were from as far away as Mississauga, Brantford, and London.
The winning bid was about $300 lower than the next closest company.
Snarr explained the work is being done as part of a service agreement between the township and the owners of the Elora Meadows subdivision project.
The developer funds the project except for the municipal service connections, services that are extended to the property line of existing or possible severed lots.
Snarr said those amount to about $5,000, and recovered through the township’s fees and charges bylaw.
