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Monday, 08 June 2009 |
By KAREN CAMPBELL
Assistant Managing Editor
With bids accepted last week for centerline and edgeline work on Auglaize County roadways, costs appear to be increasing approximately 8 percent.
Auglaize County Engineer Doug Reinhart said they have yet to award a contract for the work, but he plans to do so this week after carefully reviewing bids and making sure the addendums were addressed and companies’ insurance checks out.
The county received seven bids for centerline and edgeline work ranging from a low bid of $43,455 from Aero Mark to a high bid of $62,705 from A & A Safety.
Also submitting bids were Mahan at $43,600, IRM at $44,480, Oglesby at $46,497, Dura Mark at $50,945 and Zimmerman at $58,950.
“They’re all excellent contractors,” Reinhart said.
Center and edgeline work is one of the few jobs that are contracted to outside companies instead of employees of the county engineer doing it themselves.
Reinhart said it is less expensive for the county to have the work done each year than to pay the expense of maintaining the striper and equipment used to do the work.
“We do about half the system each year, 180 miles of county roads and 60 miles of township roads,” Reinhart said. “We want to do the roads every other year and always look at the roads we recently resurfaced.”
He said those roads have to be lined two years in a row because it takes more for the paint to stick on fresh asphalt.
Half the striping is to be done by the middle of summer with the rest scheduled for the first week of October.
The county plans to receive bids for this year’s resurfacing program at 10 a.m. June 25. The program includes the application of approximately 16,747 tons of hotmix on more than 20 miles of county-maintained roadways at an estimated cost of more than $1 million and the application of 11,209 tons of hotmix on more than 13 miles of township-maintained roads at an estimated cost of more than $698,000.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 09 June 2009 )
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