Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, October 7, 1995 TAG: 9510090019
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: NEW RIVER VALLEY BUREAU
DATELINE: DUBLIN LENGTH: Medium
C.R. Meador of Pulaski won the contract with a bid of $549,765 to clear the acreage, grade it and put roads, drainage, water and sewer lines on it.
Four contractors submitted bids on the work, and one was disqualified because it mixed two pages from the original bid form and two pages from an amended bid form in its submission. Amended forms were sent to all bidders because, after the bidding process had started, the town obtained some Economic Development Funds on the realigning of Newbern Road and so had to separate that part of the project from the rest.
The Meador bid was more than $76,000 below the next highest and more than $99,000 less than the highest bid. It was also about $2,000 less than the architect's estimate on the project.
"We should be pleased that the bid came in low," Town Manager Gary Elander said Thursday night when Dublin Town Council chose Meador as the contractor.
All streets in the town center are to be paved by the end of April.
Plans call for a new 7,000-square-foot town hall and a new 14,000-square-foot Dublin Post Office to be built in the town center.
Other businesses will also be located there, with the first being a branch of the First National Bank of Christiansburg. The bank bought a building site from the town and is planning a ground-breaking in the near future.
The town center acreage is part of the former Burlington Mills property acquired by the town in two transactions, and now forming a town industrial park.
Dublin will be recognized this weekend at the annual Virginia Municipal League meeting for its success in establishing such a park.
by CNB