By Rebecca Dopp
Times-News Correspondent
Randy McKnight, city manager, presented the bid made by
Staker/Parsons Company, for $2,011,738.20, for construction
of the airport pending the FAA's summary of the amount.
McKnight then explained how the airport project bidding
works. He said that the city's engineer makes an estimate of
the cost of the construction and the FAA gives some guidance
on how much money they can put into the project this year.
Then the city bids on the right amount of work for the money
the FAA has. Then once the city receives the bids, they send
all that work into the FAA, and they decide if they have the
funds to cover the proposed work as bid, cut out some
elements to get within the set aside money, or add some
elements because of additional monies.
He said that the engineer, Kramer and Noble, had made an
independent assessment of the project for $2.08 million
dollars.
Also, according to McKnight, the engineer will prepare a
"scope of work", or a written description of what they are
going to do, the FAA and the city will then approve it, and
that work is sent off to an independent engineer, not
related to the city, FAA, or the engineer, and they do an
independent cost review of the contract and give their
opinion on what is fair compensation to the engineer for the
work the FAA has approved. Once that is returned and the FAA
gives their approval then the city can sign the
contract.
Greg Rowley asked, "What if the amounts don't match up,
what happens?" McKnight said the FAA sends it back to be
re-estimated or re-negotiated.
"That sometimes happens," he said.
The council approved the mayor to authorize the awarding
for construction, pending the FAA's approval, to
Staker/Parsons Company.
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