Award Information

This Award Information document concerns a contract awarded by the Cherokee County Water and Sewerage Authority in Georgia for plate settler installation at the Etowah River Water Treatment Plant. The project involved demolishing existing tube settlers, support structures, troughs, baffles, fasteners, and appurtenances in Sedimentation Basins 1-8 and constructing a new plate settler system with equal treatment capacity of 2.25 million gallons per day per basin. The sealed bid solicitation, administered by engineer Freese and Nichols, Inc., required bids due August 4, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. local time at 110 Railroad Street, Canton, Georgia 30114. A nonmandatory pre-bid conference was scheduled for July 14, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. at the project site located at 583 Cokers Chapel Road, Ball Ground, Georgia, with a site tour following the conference. Questions were due via the CivCastUSA website by July 21, 2022 at 5:00 p.m., and contract documents were available for download at no charge from http://construction.freese.com.

Southern Pipe and Grading was awarded the contract in the amount of $1,868,203.10. The contract was awarded as a single lump-sum contract. The Owner reserves the right to reject any or all bids, waive informalities, and re-advertise the project. Plan holders were automatically placed on a distribution list to receive notifications including addenda, bid tabulations, and other relevant bidding information. Jim Heydorn, P.E. at Freese and Nichols served as the point of contact for inquiries regarding the pre-bid conference or site visits.