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10 bids received for exterior work on future muni court home
YOUNGSTOWN
A Cleveland company has the apparent lowest proposal – $392,160 – to do extensive exterior work to the City Hall Annex, where the city’s municipal court will be relocated by late 2017.
The proposal from VIP Restoration is significantly below the city’s $606,000 estimate. The next lowest proposal of $418,098 came from M-A Building and Maintenance of Independence.
Ten companies submitted proposals by Tuesday’s deadline for the work with only two of them exceeding the city’s estimate.
It was a different story in August when the two proposals the city received for roof-replacement work to the annex were much more than the estimated cost.
The city charter doesn’t permit Youngstown to award a contract for work when the proposals are more than the estimate.
The city had planned to purchase the roof system and have it installed from contractors on the state purchasing list. Instead, the roof work will be incorporated into the project’s general contractor proposal, said Charles Shasho, deputy director of the city’s public-works department.
The overall project is expected to cost $7,750,000.
The exterior work will be the only part of the project that will be bid separately from the rest, Shasho said.
The city’s board of control will pick a contractor for the exterior improvements in late January, he said.
“We have to review and tabulate,” he said. “There’s a lot of unit prices and qualifications to be checked before we recommend a contractor.”
The exterior work includes replacing, patching, resetting and repairing bricks and stones on the building at the corner of Market and Front streets, Shasho said.
The work would start in March or April, depending on the weather, he said.
The project will to take up to 120 days to complete.
The main contractor for the annex project will be selected in February.
The court-relocation project is to be finished by late 2017.
The court is on the second floor of city hall, 26 S. Phelps St. City municipal court judges filed a complaint in 2009 over the existing court’s conditions, demanding an improved facility.
The dispute goes back about 15 years.
An agreement was reached in June among the city’s three branches of government to relocate the court and the clerk of courts to the annex.