The Middletown Township Board of Supervisors voted recently to award bids for contracting work throughout the township.
Three bids were received for the work regarding the Forsythia Crossing Bridge repairs. The lowest bid, and winner of the contract, was Sparwick Contracting in the amount of $304, 470.
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According to the township engineer Wayne Kiefer, bids came in overall higher than expected. The fluctuations in price occur according to the price of labor, which is very intensive in the bridge repair job, noted Kiefer.
Throughout the construction, one lane would remain open on the bridge. It was explained during the meeting that closing both lanes would not reduce the construction time by any considerable amount of time.
In addition to bridge work, the board approved a bid for Redwood Avenue storm drain improvements in a four to one vote. The winners of the contract was Donato Spaventa and Sons, Inc., with a winning bid of $62,139.00.
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Kiefer said the following of the project, “This section of the pipe is in extremely poor shape. Public works requested we put just this section out to bid.”
The total cost of contracting work approved on Monday night is $366,609.
