Bids Opened For Townsend Water System Improvements
Author: Linda Kent, MT43 News Staff Reporter
Linda Kent
MT43 News Staff Reporter
The City of Townsend opened bids for improvements to the city’s water system on Nov. 6. The proposals came in well under the anticipated $17 million tab for replacing the city’s water tower with a 1 million gallon storage tank located east of town, as well as repairs and improvements to the city’s mains, hydrants, pumps and wells.
Seven firms submitted bids for one or both parts of the work. Schedule 1 addresses needed repairs to the mains and hydrants; Schedule 2 addresses new tank and connections to the existing system, as well as work on the city’s pumps and wells.
Bids for schedule 1 ranged from $3.029 million from CK May Excavating of Belgrade to $5.181 million from Williams Civil Construction, also of Belgrade. The three bids for Schedule 2 were $8.232 million by COP Construction of Billings, $8.486 million from CK May, and $9.688 million from Western Municipal Construction of Billings.
The total price for the work will likely fall between $11.261-14.869 million.
According to Mayor Vicki Rauser, the city council can choose to award the two sets of work to different bidders. The city’s engineering firm, Robert Peccia and Associates, will put together a summary of the bids for the council’s review. The bid award will likely be on the agenda for the council’s Dec. 3 meeting, with contracts to be let by the end of the year.
