Lake County, IL
File #: 10-1116    Version: 1 Name: Midlothian Road Extension (Fairground Entrance to Moorehead Circle): Contract Award
Type: resolution Status: Passed
File created: 11/1/2010 In control: Public Works and Transportation Committee
On agenda: Final action: 11/16/2010
Title: Joint resolution authorizing a contract for the construction of a three lane roadway, a bike path and railroad improvements as part of the Midlothian Road Extension, from the existing county fair entrance northerly to Moorehead Circle, to the lowest responsible bidder, Lake County Grading, Libertyville, Illinois, in the amount of $1,881,686.48 and designated as Section 09-00244-03-FP.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Bids 10-1116

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Joint resolution authorizing a contract for the construction of a three lane roadway, a bike path and railroad improvements as part of the Midlothian Road Extension, from the existing county fair entrance northerly to Moorehead Circle, to the lowest responsible bidder, Lake County Grading, Libertyville, Illinois, in the amount of $1,881,686.48 and designated as Section 09-00244-03-FP.

 

Staff Summary

                     Midlothian Road Extension (Fairground Entrance to Moorehead Circle): Contract Award

                     This improvement includes the construction of a three lane roadway, a bike path and railroad improvements.

                     A total of 8 bids were received and the lowest responsible bidder is Lake County Grading, Libertyville, Illinois, in the amount of $1,881,686.48.

 

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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 construction of a three lane roadway, a bike path and railroad improvements as part of the Midlothian Road Extension (Fairground Entrance to Moorehead Circle) and designated as Section 09-00244-03-FP; and

 

                     WHEREAS, pursuant to said publication calling for said bids, sealed bids were received and opened on October 26, at 10:00 a.m., at the Lake County Division of Transportation in Libertyville, Illinois, a tabulation of said bids being as follows:

 

                     Lake County Grading, Libertyville, IL                     $1,881,686.48

                     Curran Contracting Construction Co., Ringwood, IL                     $1,910,594.07

                     Campanella & Sons, Inc., Wadsworth, IL                     $1,920,837.98

                     Berger Excavating Contractors, Inc., Wauconda, IL                     $2,086,668.67

                     A Lamp Concrete Contractors, Inc., Schaumburg, IL                     $2,380,824.07

                     Lenny Hoffman Excavating, Inc., Wilmette, IL                     $2,407,714.98

                     Maneval Construction, Grayslake, IL                     $2,408,593.45

                     Bolder Contractors, Deerfield, IL                     $2,426,996.35

                                                                                    

                     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 Lake County Grading, Libertyville, Illinois based on estimated quantities and unit prices; and

 

                     WHEREAS, this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, by prior resolution at its meeting of February 9, 2010, appropriated $3,750,000 of ¼% Sales Tax for Transportation and Public Safety funds for the improvement of the aforesaid section.

 

                     NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that a contract be awarded to said Lake County Grading, Libertyville, Illinois, in accordance with their bid being $1,881,686.48 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 the construction of a three lane roadway, a bike path and railroad improvements as part of the Midlothian Road Extension (Fairground Entrance to Moorehead Circle) and designated as Section 09-00244-03-FP.

 

                     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that inasmuch 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 provided the final cost chargeable under the funds appropriated does not exceed the appropriations.

 

DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on November 16, 2010.