The City of Plymouth has tentatively selected a construction contractor for its Wastewater Treatment Plant improvement project.
During Monday’s Board of Works meeting, utility superintendent Donnie Davidson recommended that the board move ahead with Kokosing Industrial to do the construction work. “At this point, we would like for the board to authorize Midwestern Engineers to engage in some negotiations so we can come to a conclusion on a set contract price, hopefully,” he said. “If we can’t, we have the option of going to another provider, and this does not lock us into anything at this point. It just allows us to go through the negotiations to get a set price on this.”
The recommendation was made after Davidson and two of the board members reviewed qualifications from four potential contractors. Because the city decided to use a Guaranteed Savings Contract for the project, the selection committee was required to use a scoring system to rank the firms from most qualified to least, rather than who made the lowest bid.
Davidson also gave the board an update on the progress of division one of the improvement project, “The first half of the plant is coming together very quickly here, and we hope to have start-up on that next week, so providing everything goes well, we’ll be testing out all of our equipment and doing bacteria samples on all of the processes. At that point, once that’s approved, it’ll go online and then they’ll start tearing into the other half.”
The Plymouth Board of Works voted unanimously to allow negotiations to take place between Midwestern Engineers and Kokosing Industrial.
