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Show Lowest Bid on Deer Creek Submitted by L. A, Firm The Rohl-Connolly company of Los Angeles, California, was revealed as the lowest bidder for the construction con-struction of the first unit of the Deer Creek project. Bids were submitted sub-mitted at 10 a. m. Friday and Bureau of Reclamation officials were busily engaged Friday afternoon in checking check-ing 12 bids for the construction. It is reported that 300 persons witnessed the opening of the bids in the Federal Fed-eral building. The Rohl-Connolly company's bid was quoted as $2,189,096.50, more than a million dollars below the highest bid and more than $125,000 below the second lowest figure. The opening of the bids, delayed a day because of the need for revision re-vision of bids in conformity with department de-partment of labor ruling raising wages for muckers and laborers from 60 to 65 cents an hour, escaped another an-other delay by a two-minute margin Friday. At 9:58 a- m. one contracting firm had still failed to submit its revised bid. Under the rules the bids could not be opened Friday unless the revision re-vision was made by 10:00. Less than two minutes before the deadline, the representative of the firm in question filed its final bid with the reclamation office. The Rohl-Connolly firm, builders of the Moon Lake dam in the Uintah Uin-tah basin, was believed fuDy qualified quali-fied by observers here. Consequently Consequent-ly it was considered improbable that the Bureau of Reclamation would choose a higher bidder, although it is not obliged to accept the low bid if for any reason officials consider the low bidder unsatisfactory. T. E. Connolly, a partner in the firm submitting the low bid, who was present at the opening of the bids Friday, said his company was able to submit a low estimate because of the accessibility of equipment on the Pacific coast and in the Uintah basin. ba-sin. Before the contract may be let in Washington, subscription formalities formal-ities must be completed by members of the Provo River Water Users' association as-sociation and a contract must be concluded- with the State Road Commission, Com-mission, Mr. Larsen reported. Work on the dam must commence within 30 days of the time the contract con-tract is awarded, and completed within 1350 days. n |