The Fallbrook Public Utility District will no longer be awarding paving contracts for specific individual projects but instead will use a primary and backup asphalt paving contractor and one concrete paving contractor for paving work throughout Fiscal Year 2016-17.
A 5-0 FPUD board vote June 27 designated George W. Weir Asphalt Construction of Escondido as FPUD’s primary asphalt contractor, Peters Paving and Grading of Rainbow as the secondary asphalt contractor, and Medina Construction of Riverside as the concrete paving contractor.
“We are changing our procedure on awarding paving jobs,” said FPUD general manager Brian Brady. “We are now letting annual contracts at a set price per square foot of paving.”
The historical policy of putting specific projects to bid after sufficient paving was required resulted in long delays between the completion of a project and the completion of the associated paving, and that has created poor road conditions prior to the final paving.
The new process involves FPUD staff preparing a request for proposals to award contracts based on unit costs and expected paving quantities for the upcoming fiscal year.
“We’ve set up prices that are agreed upon,” Brady said. “We are able to get the paving done much quicker after a repair job.”
The bid package included separate bids for each of seven items: 12,800 square feet of asphalt three to five inches deep, 1,000 square feet of asphalt five to seven inches deep, 100 linear feet of concrete curb and gutter, 100 linear feet of concrete sidewalk four inches deep, 100 linear feet of concrete sidewalk six inches deep, 5,000 linear feet of striping signage, and 500 square feet of concrete driveway. Five firms responded, although one of those had a $3,000 per day mobilization charge and the bid was thus considered non-responsive.
George W. Weir Asphalt Construction had the lowest bid for the two asphalt items at $78,464 with rates of $5.14 per square foot for the asphalt three to five inches deep and $13.72 per square foot for the thicker asphalt. The $90,400 Peters Paving and Grading bid sought $6.50 per square foot for the asphalt three to five inches deep and $8.50 per square foot for the asphalt five to seven inches deep. The five concrete items totaled $24,760 on Medina Construction’s proposal.
The maximum authorized amount in the absence of further FPUD action is $78,500 for the asphalt paving and $25,000 for the concrete paving.
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