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Show Price Contractor Submits Low Bid On Green's Lake Watershed Project Culmination of two years of exhaustive preparation was reached Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock with the opening of bids for construction measures on the Green's Lake Watershed and Flood Control project. D. Claude Urie, contracting officers for the sponsoring sponsor-ing organizations, opened 1G bids with all but one including includ-ing the entire project. Three bid schedules were open to contractors. Low bidder at the opening, which drew a crowd of over 50 people to the city and county buildinc in Cedar City, was H. J. Wimmer, con raet-or raet-or of price. His bid was $181,591.-95. $181,591.-95. That was $10,591.30 below the encineer's estimate of $222,189.25. Bids ranged from the low submitted sub-mitted by Wimmer Construction Company to a hi'h of $2."0.858 27 submitted by Louis McNeisli Construction Company of Salt Lake City. Knudson Construction Com-' Com-' pany of Ogden was next to low bidder, just $1,810.99 higher than Wimmer with a bid of $1SG,405.-91. $1SG,405.-91. Structural measures in this program consis's of two debris basins, a floodwater diversion and three floodwater re'arding dams. Bidding on the first and second schedules of the contracts, which were portions of the overall, was light and all were above engineers engi-neers es'imates. Third schedul? 'he entire project drew bids from 15 of the 16 bidders who participated in the bidding. Awarding of the contract will not be made until approxima'e-ly approxima'e-ly 30 clays after Soil Conservation Conserva-tion Service personnel in Salt Lake City and officials in Wash, ington. D. C. have investigated the bidders. All bids will be forwarded for-warded to Salt Lake Ci'y offices and from there to Washington for final approval. Announcement of the successful success-ful bidder will be made by Urie In Cedar City. Weather permitting, work on the project will start on Mar. 3 and stipulations of the contract calls for completion of the project pro-ject after 180 working days. Stout anc Hall of Hurricane was the closest bidder to the en-glnee's en-glnee's estimate with a bid of $223,410.88. Of the remaining 14 bids seven were higher than the estimate and seven were low-er. low-er. Bids, including the construe- Mon company and Its bid on the entire project as opened by Urie are as follows: V. C. MendenhH. 52.433.02. Louise McNelsh Construction Company, $250,858.27. Stout and Hall. $223,440.88, Joseph C. Hasting. $210,307.30. Bouchard and Stark Gen. Con-tractors. Con-tractors. $202,220.07. General Cons'ructlon Corporation, Corpora-tion, $246,418.50. H. J. Wimmer Construction Co., $181,594.95. Industrial Construction Co., $195,083.91. L. A. Young Construction Co., $243,110.70. Wells-Stewart Construction Co., $212,731.53. Knudson Construction Co., $186,405.94. Prifchet Construction Company, $238,868.80. Hicks and Lar.nert Construction Construc-tion Co., $194,099.75. Fuller and Henderson, $248,. 470.80. Smith Earth Moving Co., $238.. 22G.69. |
