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File #: 2025-20008   
Type: Consent Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 7/25/2025 Meeting Body Board of County Commissioners
On agenda: 8/19/2025 Final action:
Title: Request Approval of Bid Award: 25B-080 Timucuan Road Culvert Replacement - Commercial Industrial Corp, Ocala, FL (Budget Impact - Neutral; expenditure of $1,672,583)
Attachments: 1. 25B-080 AGN CNT, 2. 25B-080 LOCATION MAP

 

SUBJECT:

Title

Request Approval of Bid Award: 25B-080 Timucuan Road Culvert Replacement - Commercial Industrial Corp, Ocala, FL (Budget Impact - Neutral; expenditure of $1,672,583)

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INITIATOR:

DEPARTMENT:

Susan Olsen, Director

Procurement Services

 

DESCRIPTION/BACKGROUND:

On behalf of the Office of the County Engineer, Procurement advertised a bid seeking qualified and experienced contractors for replacement of a triple barrel culvert crossing along SE Timucuan Road. The project involves dewatering, maintenance of traffic, temporary road construction and removal, construction of headwalls and approaches, construction of reinforced concrete pipe (RCP) culvert piping or box culvert, wetland restoration and related planting, project earthwork, and roadway paving and marking. One (1) submittal was received; the tabulation is listed below:

 

Vendor - Location

BID

Commercial Industrial Corp. - Ocala, FL

$1,672,582.50

 

Steven Cohoon, P.E., County Engineer, recommends that Commercial Industrial Corp. receive the award as the lowest, most responsive, and most responsible bidder.

 

Attached for review is a contract draft. Pending approval at today’s meeting, the contract will be sent to Commercial Industrial Corp. for signatures. Upon return, it will be routed for the County Attorney, Clerk, and Chairman’s signatures.

 

 

BUDGET/IMPACT:

Neutral; expenditure of $1,672,582.50. Up to a ten percent (10%) contingency may be added to the purchase order in accordance with the Procurement Manual. Funding comes from line EK430538-563102 - SMC0001MA (Stormwater Program)

 

 

RECOMMENDED ACTION:

Recommended action

Motion to approve the recommendation and allow staff to issue the contract and upon approval by Legal, authorize the Chairman and Clerk to execute the contract under 25B-080.

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