County Awards Bid For Townsend Airport Reconstruction
 | Author:
Linda Kent, MT43 News Staff Reporter
MT43 News Correspondent |
County Awards Bid for Townsend Airport Reconstruction
Linda Kent
MT43 News Staff Reporter
Bullock Contracting, LLC, of Boulder, Mont., submitted the successful bid to reconstruct the Townsend Airport, with a bid of just over $4 million for the main project and additional work to rebuild ramps to the hangars and add taxi lanes and hangar locations on the site.
Five companies submitted bids, with Bullock's entry coming in well under the $6.1 million estimate for the project.
The commissioners also approved a series of task orders for the project totaling more than $600,000.
“We’re not signing the checks today,” Commission Chairman Darrell Folkvord said. The task orders allow the county’s engineering firm for the project, Robert Peccia and Associates, to begin work on Phase II engineering, project administration, bidding and construction administration, construction services, airport layout, and ADIP/AGIS data collection.
Funding for the multi-million project comes primarily from a Federal Aeronautics Administrative grant, with a match from Montana’s bi-partisan infrastructure grant for the remainder of the funding,
Work on the site is planned to begin in Spring 2025.
