OSOYOOS TIMES-March 3, 2010
By Laurena Weninger – Osoyoos Times
The tender for Phase 1 of the Northwest Sector Sewer Project has been assigned and that means shovels will likely be in the ground within the next two weeks.
At their March 1 meeting, Osoyoos town councillors agreed to give the tender for the first part of the project, which encompasses an area from Osoyoos’s northern boundary to the end of 89th Street, to a Penticton company called Sunland Utilities.
Five tenders were received.
The highest bid came in at $1.3 million – but Sunland was the lowest, at just more than $708,000.
Each of the bids included five per cent GST and $30,000 contingency.
Additionally, council agreed to order a prefabricated lift station for the project from a Vancouver-based manufacturer called Flygt for a cost of more than $67,000.
The budget for this item had been $69,000.
The Sunland tender also came in under budget and in conjunction with the lift station price tag and other costs, there is currently a surplus budget of $186,196 for the project, states a report from the project engineers, TRUE Consulting Group.
