Chippewa Valley Schools awards contracts for summer renovations
Board awards contracts totaling $11,203,989
The Chippewa Valley Schools Board of Education began preparing for the summer construction season recently by awarding contracts totaling $11,203,989.
Chippewa Valley Schools Assistant Superintendent for Business and Operations Scott Sederlund presented a list of contractors for the summer 2021 renovation and sitework projects. Projects will take place at elementary, middle and high school buildings districtwide, in both Clinton and Macomb townships. The list includes:
• General trades: M. L. Schoenherr Construction total: $542,185
• Carpentry: BJ Construction total: $496,560
• Metal panels: Liberty Sheet Metal total: $238,700
• Roofing: Superior Services total: $827,794
• Glass/glazing: Roseville Glass total: $563,600
• Flooring: Floor Craft Floor Covering total: $1,067,319
• Painting: Seven Brothers Painting total: $46,115
• Lockers: Brainard Enterprise total $92,700
• Food service equipment: Stafford-Smith total: $88,678
• Mechanical work: Contrast Mechanical total: $2,068,000
• Electrical work: Great Lakes Power and Lighting total: $538,000
• Paving (1): Asphalt Specialists total: $1,101,500
• Paving (2): T and M Asphalt Paving total: $1,784,300
• Paving (3): T and M Asphalt
Paving total: $960,850
• Track surfacing: Star Trac Enterprise total: $308,500
• Synthetic turf: AstroTurf total: $369,047
• Fencing: Nationwide Construction Group total: $110,141
“This project will consist of renovations and or sitework at Cherokee, Erie, Huron, Miami, Algonquin, Iroquois, Seneca, Chippewa Valley Ninth Grade Center, Chippewa Valley High School, Dakota High School, Mohegan and the administration complex,” Sederlund said. “The bids received are within the budget allocation identified for the 2018 bond issue program.”
The projects are scheduled to begin in early 2021 and be completed by the end of summer 2021. In a Dec. 9 letter to Sederlund from Barton Malow Project Manager Jeff Atkins wrote that representatives from Barton Malow and Wakely Associates evaluated the proposals for Bid Package 3, 2021, renovations and site work.
“This project was advertised in the local paper, state website, and posted online on Building Connected during November 2020,” Atkins wrote. “Multiple bids were
received on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020 at 11 a.m. A postbid review was conducted with the bidders the week of Nov. 30, 2020.”
Atkins wrote that contractors were the qualified bidders.
“The apparent low bidder for the electrical work and synthetic turf did not have a complete bid,” Atkins wrote.
Included with Atkins’ letter was a bid-budget summary and a project worklist, which detailed the specific types of work included for each district building.
The motion to award the contracts totaling $11.2 million was made during the Dec. 14 virtual Chippewa Valley Schools Board of Education meeting by Vice President Denise Aquino and seconded by Trustee George Sobah. The motion carried with yes votes by all board members except Robert Wojtowicz, who abstained. Wojtowicz was appointed by the board on Dec. 7 to fill a temporary vacancy due to former board Secretary Laura Cardamone being elected to the Clinton Township Board of Trustees. Wojtowicz won a seat on the board through the recent election and so will be joining the board permanently in January. the low,