From the Glenwood Springs Post Independent (John Gardner):
The city received five competitive bids from prequalified contractors for the project. The low bid, from Salida-based Moltz Construction, came in at $22.3 million. That is nearly $1.2 million less than the first-round low bidder Arizona-based Archer-Western Construction, at $23.5 million. Archer-Western was the lone contractor that did not resubmit a bid for the project. The other remaining bids came in close the original bids with three slightly increasing, and two, including Moltz’s bid, which came in at $1.5 million lower than its original bid. The lower bids were a welcomed surprise for City Manager Jeff Hecksel considering that previous estimates including Davis-Bacon wage requirements could increase the price of the project by as much as $1.5 million. “We were surprised that the bids came in lower,” said City Manager Jeff Hecksel. “I think we expected them to come back the same or a bit more. I think we were very surprised to have them come back as low as they did.”
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