Board opens bids for aggregate, concrete and paving materials; refers all bids to purchasing

At its April 16 meeting the Richmond City Board of Works opened bids for aggregate, concrete and paving materials from several vendors and referred the packet to the city’s purchasing department for review.

The Chair read bids from US Aggregate of Indianapolis showing unit prices for shot sand ($9.95), various gravels and stones and noted a $5-per-ton delivery charge to the street department and a $3 landfill charge. Milestone Contractors (824 Dillon Drive, Richmond) submitted prices for coated aggregate/cold mix ($155 plant) and base hot asphalt and surface asphalt at $63.75 and $69.50 per ton (plant), while Barrick Paving Materials listed several stone prices (for example, #2 at $16.50; #8 at $23.00; #73 at $18.50) and specified delivery surcharges (street department +$7/ton; landfills +$5/ton). The transcript also records a remitter check tied to Earnest Enterprise Incorporated and separate entries labeled Ernest Concrete that include delivered-concrete pricing (class A $181/yd3; class B $171/yd3) and an additional $150 charge for deliveries under four cubic yards.

After reading the submissions the Chair moved and the board approved a motion to refer all bids to Purchasing (staff named in the meeting as Kieran Ohl) for evaluation and next steps. The board did not award any contracts at the meeting; evaluations and award recommendations are to follow the purchasing department’s review.