Texas firm gets bid on second try
The Clear Lake City Council has awarded Landmark, of Fort Worth, Texas the contract for construction of a new water tower in the city’s Industrial Park.
Landmark submitted the lowest of three bids for the 1 million gallon composite tank. It’s bid of $1,974,000, was 7.6 percent more than the engineer’s estimate.
It was the second successful bid submitted by the firm. When the project was previously bid on May 1, 2007 Landmark bid $2,015,000 for a composite tower. The Council rejected that bid and directed its engineer to look for ways to trim the cost of the project. Tim Moreau, of Veenstra & Kimm identified some alternates which could be bid to lessen the price. He also said the company is willing to work with the city to negotiate the price.
The project involves the construction of an elevated water storage tank, including excavation, backfill, site work, pavement, granular surfacing buried piping, chain-link fencing, seeding, reinforced concrete foundation, steel fluted support column or reinforced concrete support column, steel 1,000,000 gallon water storage tank, painting, electrical, and other miscellaneous work.
Moreau said the addition of the 1 million gallon water storage tower to the water distribution system provides for some additional future community growth, especially to the east of the Interstate-35 corridor.
The need for an additional water storage tower was first identified in a study done by WHKS & Co. consulting engineers in 1995. The Main Avenue tower (500,000 gallons), which is more than two miles away, is currently the closest tower located to the I-35/Highway 122 growth corridor and the new Larry Luker Memorial Industrial Park.
City Administrator Scott Flory noted the city has put water revenues in reserve in anticipation of the project, as well as delayed other water system capital improvement projects. It is anticipated that the city will need to proceed with a borrowing of approximately $1.2 million in order to finance the project.
Landmark’s contract calls for completion of the project by June 26, 2009.