Title
143rd and LaGrange Road Intersection Improvement Project - Bid Award: F.H. Paschen, S.N. Nielson
History
Following the process that Staff had established for the advertisement and opening of bids for the 143rd Street and LaGrange Road Intersection Improvement Project (the Project), on January 14, 2011, bids for the Project were opened at 11:00 a.m. by the Village Clerk and read aloud at the Orland Park Civic Center.
The advertisement and bidding process allowed each bidder to provide a Base Bid and up to six (6) Alternate Bids within the bid packages. These Alternate Bids provided the Contractor an opportunity to provide alternate materials or fixtures that varied from the plans and specifications developed by the Village and called out for the project. Alternate Bids also allow the contractor to propose options for the Village’s consideration so similar products could be given consideration thereby creating competition among the contractor’s selected product manufacturers and vendors.
Alternate Bid items provide a great benefit to the Village by allowing the Village to “Value Engineer” each bid, as the Village has an opportunity to “pick and choose” the Alternate item or combination of Alternates items that best suits the Village’s needs.
There were six bids received, with the average of the bids being $11,748,931.52. The base bids ranged from a high of $13,739,410.31 to the low bid of $10,231,123.74 which was submitted by the apparent low bidder, F.H. Paschen, S.N. Nielsen & Associates, LLC (Paschen). The Paschen bid was $802,557.10 below the next lowest bidder, Lorig Construction Company.
The bids of the two lowest bidders were thoroughly checked and no arithmetic errors were found in either bid. Staff and V3 Consulting Engineers also reviewed the bids against the average of the bids received as well as the Engineer’s Opinion of Probable Construction Cost ($13,366,394.04 with all Alternates) developed for the project. The results of this revi...
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