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Joint resolution authorizing a contract for the intersection improvement of Fairfield Road and Gossell Road to Berger Excavating Contractors, Inc., Wauconda, Illinois in the amount of $1,351,373.73 and designated as Section 01-00113-14-ES.
Staff Summary
· Fairfield Road and Gossell Road; Intersection Improvement: Contract Award.
· This intersection will be improved by re-alignment of Gossell Rd, the installation of turn lanes and traffic signals
· A total of 8-bids were received and the lowest responsible bidder is Berger
· Excavating Contractors, Inc., Wauconda in the amount of $1,351,373.73.
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R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, pursuant to authority granted by this Board of Lake County, the County Engineer heretofore called for sealed bids, by publication, for the intersection improvement of Fairfield Road and Gossell Road and designated as Section 01-00113-14-ES; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to said publication and calling for said bids, sealed bids were received and opened on June 29, 2010, at 10:00 AM at the Lake County Division of Transportation in Libertyville, Illinois; a tabulation of said bids being as follows:
Berger Excavating Contractors
Wauconda, IL
$1,351,373.73
Curran Contracting
Lake Bluff, IL
$1,439,404.05
Glenbrook Exc. & Concrete, Inc.
Wauconda, IL
$1,451,000.00
Campanella & Sons, Inc.
Wadsworth, IL
$1,516,110.82
Lake County Grading Co., LLC
Libertyville, IL
$1,536,420.00
Maneval Construction Co., Inc.
Grayslake, IL
$1,591,504.05
Lenny Hoffman Excavating, Inc.
Wilmette, IL
$1,643,093.31
PirTano Construction Company, Inc.
Addison, IL
$1,695,702.87
WHEREAS, the Public Works and Transportation Committee, the County Engineer and the Purchasing Agent have examined each bid, and it appears that the lowest responsible bidder is Berger Excavating Contractors, Inc., Wauconda, Illinois their bid being $1,351,373.73 based on estimated quantities and unit prices; and
WHEREAS, this County Board of Lake County, Illinois by prior resolution at its meeting of April 13, 2010 appropriated $842,000 of Matching Tax funds, $187,000 of County Bridge Tax funds, and $1,011,000 of the ¼% Sales Tax for Transportation and Public Safety funds for the intersection improvement at Fairfield Road and Gossell Road and designated as Section 01-00113-14-ES.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by this County Board of Lake County that a contract be awarded to said Berger Excavating Contractors, Inc., Wauconda, Illinois in accordance with their bid of $1,351,373.73 based on estimated quantities and unit prices and that the Purchasing Agent, the County Clerk, and the County Engineer of Lake County be authorized and they are hereby directed to enter into a contract with said low bidder for the intersection improvement of Fairfield Road and Gossell Road and designated as Section 01-00113-14-ES; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that in as much as such estimated quantities are the best approximation that can be determined at this time, these quantities may be added to, deducted from, or modified from in the final determination of the contract cost in accordance with Chapter 605 of the Illinois Compiled Statutes, Act 5, Section 5-205.2 without further Board action, providing the final cost chargeable to the funds appropriated does not exceed the appropriation.
Dated at Waukegan, Illinois, on this 13th day of July A.D., 2010