The city will save some money on landscaping for the recreation center but will spend just a bit more on the restroom building for the facility.
The city council reviewed bids for landscaping for Phase I of the recreation center complex at Thursday's meeting.
The lowest bid was submitted by Garden Shop Nursery of Reno with an estimate of $571,422, and was about $150,000 less than the next lowest bid.
City Manager/Engineer Steve West said the low estimate of the bid was really good news and was well under what the landscape architect had thought it might be.
Infrastructure for the facility, including water mains, underground utility work and grading, is not included in the bid. The infrastructure bid was awarded to Hunewill Construction. The infrastructure work has already begun at the complex.
The council approved the bid without much discussion, and moved on to talk about the restroom facility bid. Bids for restroom structures opened on Monday, and the three bids submitted were all higher than what the city anticpated.
The original bid was to include a storage area, but with value-engineering, the storage area was removed from consideration.
"It's hard to believe that at 24-square foot restroom building would run $250,000," said West. He added that the building was to include the heaviest fixtures available to avoid vandalism issues, but to reduce costs through value-engineering, the fixtures would be cheaper and more prone to breakage.
West said it was staff's recommendation to reject all the bids for the restroom facility. Instead, the city would maybe install pre-manufactured buildings at a cost of $171,000 or $141,000.
Mayor Di An Putnam said the pre-fabricated buildings are designed for public parks and the like and are made to withstand high traffic and vandalism.
The city will open bids again for the restroom facility.
The masonry signs for the recreation center will be completed by MGM Construction of Salt Lake City. The company is working on the animal control center for the city, and provided a bid of $18,650. Because MGM is already working in Winnemucca and because the cost is less than $25,000, the city can purchase the masonry services.[[In-content Ad]]
