Legislation Details

File #: 2026-24159   
Type: Consent Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 8/20/2026 Meeting Body Board of County Commissioners
On agenda: 9/1/2026 Final action:
Title: Request Approval of Bid Award: 26B-094 Stanton Weirsdale Drainage Retention Area (DRA) – Southern Times Service, LLC, Ocala, FL (Budget Impact – Neutral; expenditure of $173,520.75)
Attachments: 1. 26B-094 AGN CNT, 2. Stanton Weirsdale Drainage Retention Area Location Map

SUBJECT:

Title

Request Approval of Bid Award: 26B-094 Stanton Weirsdale Drainage Retention Area (DRA) - Southern Times Service, LLC, Ocala, FL (Budget Impact - Neutral; expenditure of $173,520.75)

Body

 

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 a stormwater retrofit and drainage construction intended to improve conveyance along a portion of SE 134th Avenue Road and provide for a new drainage retention area (DRA). The work will take place within the right-of-way and Marion County-owned parcels. Six (6) submittals were received; the tabulation is listed below:

 

Vendor - Location

Bid

Southern Times Service, LLC - Ocala, FL

$173,520.75

Commercial Industrial Corp - Ocala, FL

$180,857.50

Hartman Civil Construction Co., Inc. - Ocala, FL

$192,378.00

Foshee Construction - Minneola, FL

$196,915.73

Art Walker Construction, Inc. - Lowell, FL

$242,128.40

Excavation Specialist, LLC - Ocala, FL

$337,954.61

 

Steven Cohoon, P.E., County Engineer, recommends that Southern Times Service, LLC, receive the award as the lowest, most responsive, and most responsible bidder.

 

Attached for review is a contract draft and pending approval at today’s meeting, it will be sent to Southern Times Services, LLC, for signatures. Upon return, it will be forwarded to Legal, the Clerk, and Chairman for signatures.

 

BUDGET/IMPACT:

Neutral; expenditure of $173,520.75. Up to 10% contingency may be added to the purchase order in accordance with the Procurement Manual. Funding is from the following accounts:

AG341564-583220-341CDBG25L (Grant Funded Community Service)

AG341564-583220-341CDBG23F (Grant Funded Community Service)

 

RECOMMENDED ACTION:

Recommended action

Motion to approve the recommendation and allow staff to issue a contract and upon approval by Legal, authorize the Chairman and Clerk to execute the contract under 26B-094.

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