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Howard R, Green Company Item 6.14. April 15, 2004 File: 823240J-0060 Honorable Mayor and City Council City of Elk River 13065 Orono Parkway Elk River, MN 55330 RE: LION'S PARK PARKING LOT AND TRAIL IMPROVEMENTS Dear Council Members: We have tabulated the bids received on Wednesday, April 14, 2004, for the Lion's Park Parking Lot and Trail Improvements. The three major components of the project are a small expansion to the parking lot at the Lion's Park facility, a bituminous overlay of the trails contained within Lion's Park and the construction of a basketball court in the neighborhood park located in Hillside Estates 5th Addition. There were a total of six bids received. In the bidding documents the specification requested a base bid and an alternate bid for applying a paving fabdc on the Lion's Park trails prior to the overlay. The following table list the six bidders, the total of their base bid and their altemate bid. A complete bid tabulation is attached. Universal Enterprises of Mid- MN. DMJ Corporation Magnum Company Bauedy Companies Northwest Asphalt North Valley, Inc Base Bid Altemate Bid $69,949.00 $18,200.00 $74,457.70 $10,290.00 $74,466.30 $15,260.00 $74,647.55 $ 8400.00 $81,625.05 $13,272.00 $81,813.12 $ 8,890.00 The Park's Department annual budget contained a total budget for these three items of $120,000.00 including construction cost and overhead. Phil Hals, Street Superintendent and I have discussed whether or not the altemate bid for the paving fabdc will provide enough benefit to justify the cost. It is our recommendation that the cost of the paving fabdc exceeds any benefit the trails would receive from using it. Universal Enterprises, Inc has submitted the lowest base bid in the amount of $69,949.00. Universal Enterprises, Inc has satisfactorily completed similar type work in the City of Elk River in the past therefore we would recommend the award to them in the amount of $69.949.00. However due to the amount the bid is under the budgeted amount we would request the ability to consider additional work in the parking lot area for additional removal of unsuitable materials and placement of additional granular fill pdor to constructing the parking lot. We would also request the ability to consider overlaying an existing basketball court in the Ridgewood neighborhood park. If granted permission from the City Council to consider this additional work within this budgeted amount Ltr- 822550J-4000 -City Council 2550 University Avenue West · Suite 400N · St. Paul, MN 55114 ° 651/644-4389 fax 651/644-9446 toll free 888/368-4389