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Concrete Slab Raising Bid for Concrete Sidewalk Restorations (3-Year Contract from 2017 to 2019) - Bid Award
History
With the responsibility of overseeing maintenance efforts for miles of sidewalk throughout the Village, Public Works relies heavily on a non-destructive and non-invasive procedure to correct sidewalks squares that have settled and lowered causing a trip hazard. Rather than tear out the sidewalk square which requires framing, pouring and curing of concrete, otherwise functional sidewalk squares can be slab jacked or “raised”. This procedure pumps a special cement mixture under the sidewalk square to “lift” the square to the desired and matching height of the adjacent square. In nearly all instances the slab raising method requires minimal or no landscape restoration to the area surrounding the slab(s). The Village, for a number of years, has contracted out the slab raising work for sidewalks, driveway aprons, pedestrian bridge approaches, and stairway landings.
A formal Invitation to Bid (“ITB”) was advertised in the Daily Southtown on Thursday June 8, 2017 and hosted on the Village website with bids due in the Clerk’s Office by Thursday June 22nd, 2017 at 11:00am. The ITB requested unit pricing per square foot of work, performed for a three year contract from 2017 to 2019. Two bids were received and opened by Clerk’s Office.
Quick Raising Concrete of Lockport, Illinois, submitted the lowest bid with a 2017 unit price of $1.60 per square foot, which equates to $40 per sidewalk square. A typical Orland Park residential sidewalk is 5 feet wide by 5 feet long equaling 25 square feet. Quick Raising also submitted unit prices of $1.80 for 2018 and $2.00 for 2019.
The $0.20 unit price increase per year is mainly due to expected rising fuel costs for both vehicle mobilization and the gas-powered slab raising equipment along with material price increases. Quick Raising Concrete’s unit prices are in line with previous prices accepted by the Vill...
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