Adams Considers Bids for Station, Charles Street Bridge
Hard landscaping is complete at what will be the Adams Station but reconstruction of the former carwash is still ahead. |
ADAMS, Mass. – The town received four bids ranging from $97,000 to $197,000 for the structural construction of the Adams Station.
The former car wash will be transformed to welcome visitors from the Berkshire Scenic Railway's Hoosac Valley Service that will eventually have a terminus there.
The lowest bidder was Sommer Electric Inc. with $97,200. The highest bid was $197,000 from Meadow Construction Co. LLC.
Salco Construction Co. Inc. bid $121,495 and Kurtz, Inc. bid $164,919.
With landscaping work complete, the contractor awarded with the project will begin work on the actual structure on the property.
This is the third time this project went out to bid because of high bid numbers and lack of applicants.
The town of Adams gave the total project a $552,000 budget. The town is responsible for $165,000 of the cost and the state will reimburse Adams for 70 percent of the project.
The town also has received five bids for the Charles Street Bridge replacement project ranging from $160,000 to $390,000.
In 2011, heavy flooding from Tropical Storm Irene damaged the bridge, making it unusable. The small bridge is one of two access points over a brook that connects several homes on the north side of Lime Street. The other bridge was repaired fairly quickly but the Charles Street one will require an expensive box culvert. The town began moving forward on the project after receiving $230,000 from a federal Community Development Block Grant for disaster recovery.
William J. Keller & Sons Construction Corp. bid the lowest at $162,261 and New England Infrastructure Inc. the highest at $390,000.
Tom Ayotte Construction bid $177,215, Northern Construction Service LLC $219,000, and Clayton D. Davenport Trucking Inc. $304,000.
Project engineers said the bridge will be wider and more secure because it is likely the river will flood again, however, the new bridge will have less of an impact on the riverfront than the current one.
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