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6 <br />Chapel Hill - Carrboro City Schools <br />Lincoln Center, Merritt Mill Road <br />Chapel Hill, NC 27516 <br />Telephone: (919) 967-8211 <br />Fax; (919) 933-4560 <br />Neit Pedersen, Superintendent Nettie Collins-Hart, Assistant <br />Superintendent for Instructional Services <br />Ray Reitr, Chief Technology Officer Steve Scroggs, Assistant Superintendent <br />for Support Services <br />To: Neil Pedersen <br />Superintendent <br />From: Steve Scroggs <br />Assistant Superintendent for Support Services <br />Re: HS #3 Construction Bids <br />Date: April 19, 2005 <br />Included are the results of the bidding for the construction contract for High School #.3 <br />located at Rock Haven Road in Canboro, NC. The fimding for this project will be <br />reviewed in more detail below. The information package includes a review of the low <br />bids and a comparison to the present funding situation, Funding agreements, the <br />hiterlocal Agreement with the Board of County Commissioners and Addendum "B", <br />"smart growth principles," also are included for your review.. <br />The purpose of this item is to request from the Board of Education direction in the <br />amount of additional fimding to request from the County Commissioners for the <br />completion of high school #.3. A contract can not be awarded until a capital funding <br />ordinance is passed by the BOCC. Once the ordinance is in place, the f nal contract will <br />be returned to the Board for approval. <br />Biddin <br />Pazticipation in the bidding was low with only two general contractors, Banrhill <br />Construction and J.M.T.. Construction submitting bids. The bids were close but Barnhill <br />Construction was the low bidder. Sub-contractor participation was also minimal with <br />only one plumbing, tluee electrical, and tluee HVAC sub-contractors taking part. The <br />complete bid tabulation will be presented to the Board when contracts for construction <br />are awarded in .June, 2005. Worlc is scheduled to begin in July, 2005 and should be <br />complete to open the school in August 2007.. <br />While State law now allows acceptance of a single prime contractor bid over a nnrlti- <br />prime bid of lesser cost, the cost differential in this project is too high to merit a single <br />prime selection. Most of the buildings in the District have been built using amulti-prime <br />contract. The experience of the District in the construction of Rashkis Elementary with a <br />single prime contractor was quite positive, but financial constraints do not allow for <br />