Staff recommends the City Council award a contract for WO 21-03 Contract No. 3 City Digouts to Knife River - Billings in the amount of $246,168.75.

WO 21-03 Contract No. 3 City Digouts is part of the 2021 Street Maintenance program. Annually, staff identifies streets proposed for preventative maintenance. Staff typically bids this work in multiple contracts: crack sealing/Mastic, digouts, chip/scrub seal resurfacing, and overlay resurfacing. This contract will provide digout work on approximately 51,852 square feet of City streets. The project was advertised on February 5, 12, and 19, 2021 in the Yellowstone County News and on the City's website. Bids were opened on February 23, 2021. Six bids were received and two bids had irregularities that did not affect the outcome of lowest bidder. Knife River - Billings submitted the lowest responsible bid.

City Council may:

• Award WO 21-03 Contract No. 3 City Digouts to Knife River - Billings, in the amount of $246,168.75; or,
• Do not award a contract and reject all bids. If the contract is not awarded, the streets planned for maintenance will continue to degrade.

The following bids were received:
 

Contractor	Base Bid
Knife River - Billings	$246,168.75
Hardrives Construction, Inc.	$258,344.40
Western Municipal Construction, Inc.	$267,217.90
Weave Construction	$304,405.75
Wharton Asphalt	$364,412.00
Askin Construction LLC	$393,431.15

The project was budgeted in the amount of $2,450,000 in FY21 using Gas Tax funds. Remaining budget will be used for change orders.
 

Budgeted Public Work PAVER Amount	$2,450,000.00
Previous Contract WO 21-03 Contract No. 1 City Overlay	$1,463,871.93
This Contract WO 21-03 Contract No. 3 City Digouts	$246,168.75
Contract WO 21-03 Contract No. 2 City Crack Seal/Mastic (this agenda)	$391,000.00
Amount Remaining	$348,959.32