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4� <br />1 <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. _X_ C, <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: MARCH 4, 1991 <br />SUBJECT: BID AWARD; 911 EXPANSION <br />-- <br />DEPARTMENT: PURCHASING & CENTRAL SRVS. PUBLIC HEARINGr YES: - <br />NO:XX <br />.. <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: - PAM -JONES <br />EXT 2652 <br />CERTIFIED BID TABULATION Telephone Number - <br />Hillsborough -732 -8181 <br />Chapel Hill -967 -9251 <br />Mebane - 227 -2031 <br />Durham - 688 --7331 <br />PURPOSE: To award construction bids for the 911 Expansion Project. <br />BACKGROUND: Bids were received for this project on <br />February 21, 1991. As indicated on the attached bid <br />tabulation, Trout and Riggs Construction Company, Durham, has submitted <br />the lowest bid under a single prime contract for a total of $276,700. <br />As you may recall, in 1989, the General Assembly enacted legislation <br />allowing local governments to take bids using the single prime contract <br />method as long as they took bids using the multi -prime contract method <br />as well. The single prime contract allows one contractor to bid <br />all parts of the project. In the past the law required bids over <br />$100,000 to be separated and awarded to the lowest bidder in each of <br />the categories of General Contractor, Plumbing, Heating and Electrical. <br />The contract, as always, must be awarded to the lowest responsible <br />bidder. This is the first bid taken by Orange County, since <br />legislation was enacted, in which the lowest bid was a single prime <br />contractor. <br />