County guardrail project goes to bid

COLFAX— The Public Works Department opened bids on the County-wide guardrail project during the Monday, Oct. 30 County Commissioners meeting.

Director of Public Works Mark Storey said that the lowest bid came from Frank Gurney, Inc. for $821,334.70 and that Public Works will make the recommendation at the next commissioner’s board meeting next week, Monday, Nov. 6.

The million-dollar project is to improve guardrails around the county in various locations and will use federal safety funds.

“A lot of it’s on the Wawawai Road,” Storey said, noting that there are a couple of other small locations as well.

Storey said the project will probably not see much progress until 2024 due to the winter season approaching.

Items included in the bid are the engineer’s estimate one mobilization engineer’s estimate, totaling $36,000; removing an estimated 4,200 of the guardrail, totaling $25,200; removing 12 guardrail anchor, $4,800; 1,300 beam guardrail type 31 to 8 feet long steel post, $46,800; 8,581 beam guardrail 9-foot long steel post $326,078.00; beam guard rail 11-foot long steel post $93,240; beam guard rail steel post; 15 beam guardrail type 31 non-flared terminal, $60,000; 3,563 beam guardrail type 31 steel post, $122,923.50; one project temporary traffic control, $112,000; one trimming and cleanup, $1,000; one work zone safety contingency, $255,000; one SPCC plan, $750—all items totaling an engineer’s estimate of $853,791.50.

The four bidders on the project include Frank Gurney, Inc., M2 Industrial, Inc., Dirt and Aggregate Interchange, Inc., and Peterson Brothers, Inc.

The engineer’s total estimate on the guardrail project is $853,791.50.

The bid given by M2 Industrial comes to a total of $921,337, Dirt and Aggregate Interchange, Inc.’s total is $994,900, and Peterson Brothers Inc. comes to a total of $1,002,353.99.

Storey said the low estimate was below the engineer’s estimate, which rarely happens. “It’s close to what the actual bids came in with,” Storey said.