Manor Township Bid Opening Tuesday
Bids to install inlets, storm sewers and outfall along Short Street in Manor Township, along with the redirecting gravel alleys to the new inlets and repaving affected alleys, will be opened next week at a special meeting.
by Jonathan Weaver
A special meeting to open bids for a stormwater project in Manor Township is on schedule to be held next week.
After Manor Township supervisors, interested contractors and Senate Engineering officials held a pre-bid meeting with County Division Director Adrienne Commodore Tuesday morning to discuss the Short Street storm water improvements project, contractors still interested must submit their bids by Monday.
Bids are to be opened at a special meeting at 9AM this coming Tuesday - April 14.
According to bidding documents posted last week, the project – which will impact about five households that registered of low-to-moderate income - will include the installation of inlets, storm sewers and outfall, with the redirection of surrounding gravel alleys to the new inlets and the repaving of the affected alleys.
In Spring 2012, supervisors approved to utilize more than $48,000 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds for the project, as well as set aside up to $20,000 in 2013 funds for a total of $68,000.
If all bids received exceed that amount, extra money that is available from previous annual CDBG allocations can be transferred via amendment - but it will delay construction.
The process was to begin sooner, but officials were delayed since due to the State.
Senate Engineering was elected for engineering design in April 2013 after three bids were received – Senate’s totaling $9,000 - due to their familiarity with the township and the sewer system.
Bids are expected to be tabled for review and tabulation before the next public meeting May 6.
Supervisor Pat Fabian added that in the future, supervisors hope to pave the Manor Township Fire Department parking lot – which would also require income surveying township-wide.
Under new guidelines, township supervisors or public officials – such as Road Foreman Robert Southworth or Secretary Jill Davis – are no longer allowed to collect surveys, as they did in the past during past projects.
Manor Township | jweaver April 9, 2015
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