County awards tender for Mount Forest library
Renovations are ready to proceed at the Mount Forest library after county council awarded the tender at its meeting on June 25.
The winning bid was submitted by Allen-Hastings Limited, of Miller Lake, for $1.24-million, including provincial sales taxes.
The county has the following budget to pay for the $1.6-million project:
- $180,000 from the 2008 capital budget;
- 1.25-million from the 2009 capital budget;
- $50,000 from the library account of the development charges reserve; and
- $311,200 from the property reserve fund.
There were three other companies that supplied bids for the work. Collaborative Structures, of Cambridge, was the only other one considered.
It’s bid was $1.395-million.
One company had an incomplete bid, and the other wanted to extend the construction schedule from five months to nine months.
Both bids were rejected.
