Schools
Only 1 Bid on $2.2M Sherman School Renovation Comes Within Budget
Salce Contracting in Stratford bids less than $2.2M; all other bids more
The town's Purchasing Department opened bids Wednesday for the $2.2 million renovation and expansion of Roger Sherman School, and only one bid came in within the project's budget.
Salce Contracting in Stratford bid $1,988,000 for the job, which has a scheduled groundbreaking on Aug. 9. The other bids ranged from $2,213,424 from Tomlinson Hawley Patterson of Trumbull to $2,815,500 from Hawley Construction of Danbury.
The bidders broke their bids into two categories - expanding and renovating the Fern Street elementary school's kitchen and administration wing, and improving ventilation in classrooms. The bids did not include three "add alternates," which included improving ventilation in the cafeteria and gymnasium and installing Energy Recovery units on the school's roof.
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Sherman's renovation can't exceed its budget because the school is in a flood plain, and Federal Emergency Management Agency regulations require that the cost of renovations to any structure in a flood plain be less than 50 percent of the structure's appraised value. Otherwise, the entire structure has to be brought up to current FEMA regulations, which, in Sherman's case, would involve either elevating the school or building a dike around it.
The town doesn't have to select the lowest bidder; the town has to select the lowest qualified and responsive bidder.
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The construction timeline on Sherman School calls for the town to award a contract for the job on July 21 and for contracts to be signed July 28.
The groundbreaking would take place Aug. 9, followed by an Oct. 1 deadline to finish the kitchen addition, an Oct. 15 deadline to finish the administration addition, and a Dec. 5 deadline to finish interior renovations to the administration wing. Ventilation work in classrooms would start June 23, and the entire project is slated to be done Aug. 25, before the start of the 2012-13 school year.
Sherman's renovation will be an "occupied renovation," similar to the renovation at Stratfield School but smaller in scope.
Bids opened Wednesday were:
A. Secondino & Son of Branford:
Kitchen and administration work - $1,480,000
Classroom ventilation and improvement work - $894,000
Total - $2,374,000
Total with three add alternates - $3,105,000
Gennarini Construction of Bridgeport:
Kitchen and administration work - Not completed
Classroom ventilation and improvement work - Not completed
Total - $2,395,000
Total with three add alternates - $3,000,000
Hawley Construction of Danbury:
Kitchen and administration work - $1,915,500
Classroom ventilation and improvement work - $900,000
Total - $2,815,500
Total with three add alternates - $3,423,800
L. Holzner Electric of Bridgeport:
Kitchen and administration work - $1,514,000
Classroom ventilation and improvement work - $1,075,200
Total - $2,589,200
Total with three add alternates - $3,255,200
Salce Contracting of Stratford:
Kitchen and administration work - $1,777,000
Classroom ventilation and improvement work - $211,000
Total - $1,988,000
Total with three add alternates - $2,680,000
Tomlinson Hawley Patterson of Trumbull:
Kitchen and administration work - $1,660,068
Classroom ventilation and improvement work - $553,356
Total - $2,213,424
Total with three add alternates - $2,725,333
Wernert Construction of Cos Cob:
Kitchen and administration work - $1,500,208
Classroom ventilation and improvement work - $807,805
Total - $2,308,013
Total with three add alternates - $2,956,534.
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