Staff recommends the City Council award a contract for WO 21-03 Contract No. 1 City Overlay Schedule 1 to Knife River in the amount of $1,463,871.93 and Schedule 2 to Askin Construction in the amount of $167,200.02.

This project is part of the on-going Street Preventative Maintenance Program supported by the City Council since 1985. Annually, staff identifies streets proposed for preventative maintenance that includes pavement patching, chip seal resurfacing, overlay resurfacing,and crack sealing. This contract includes two schedules. Schedule 1 will mill and overlay approximately 2.77 miles of King Ave W (31st St W to 600' east of Shiloh Rd), 4th Ave N (Division St to N 27th St), Rimrock Rd (N 27th St to 200' west of Virginia Ln), and S Billings Blvd (King Ave East to Underpass Ave).  Schedule 2 is another phase of work to remove and replace a poriton of the asphalt surface at Riverfront Park. A work location map for Schedule 1 is attached. The contract was advertised on November 20 and 27 and December 4 and 11, 2020, in The Yellowstone County News and on the City's website. Staff opened bids on December 15th, 2020, for W.O. 21-03 Contract No. 1 City Overlay. There were three bids recieved for Schedule 1 and and six bids for Schedule 2. Knife River submitted the lowest responsible bid for Schedule 1 which is the overlay. Askin Construction submitted the lowest responsible bid for Schedule 2 which is paving work at Riverfront Park.

City Council may:

• Award WO 21-03 Contract No. 1 City Overlay Schedule 1 to Knife River, in the amount of $1,463,871.93 and Schedule 2 to Askin Construction in the amount of $167,200.02, or;
• Do not award a contract and reject all bids. If the contract is not awarded, the streets and parks planned for maintenance will continue to degrade.

The following bids were received:

Contractor	Schedule 1: Overlay	Schedule 2: Riverfront Park
Knife River	$1,463,871.93	$175,452.10
Riverside Contracting	$1,478,204.30	$189,796.75
First Mark Construction	$1,669,174.05	$173,367.50
Askin Construction	No Bid	$167,200.02
Wharton Asphalt	No Bid	$193,466.25
Hardrives Construction	No Bid	$237,266.37

The project was budgeted in FY21 using Gas Tax and Park District 1 funds. The amount budgeted for the Public Works PAVER project was $2.45 million and the remaining $1 million will be used for the chip seal and crack seal projects to still be awarded under this program and any change orders.  The amount budgeted for the Parks and Recreation Riverfront Park Paving project is $175,000 and the remaining budget will be used for any change orders.