Award Information

This Award Information document pertains to Effingham County, Georgia's procurement of a Compact Track Loader under RFQ No. 22-25-004. The request for quote solicitation required sealed proposals submitted to the Office of the Purchasing Agent at the Effingham County Administrative Complex by 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time on Friday, September 3, 2021. Interested bidders were required to submit an email expressing interest to abruton@effinghamcounty.org by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Monday, August 23, 2021 to be eligible for consideration. No mandatory pre-bid meeting was scheduled. The contract was awarded to Flint Equipment on September 21, 2021, as approved by the Board of Commissioners meeting.

The award document presents pricing from four bidders for a Bobcat compact track loader base unit with various attachments and packages. Flint Equipment's winning bid totaled $118,732.64, which exceeded the county's $50,000 budget by $68,732.64. The equipment package included the base unit, Performance Package, Comfort Package, rubber tracks, mulcher, bucket, pallet fork frame, hydraulic soil conditioner, grapple, and trencher attachment. Flint Equipment offered in-stock availability with a 2-year/2000-hour warranty that included travel time coverage within Effingham County and travel time charges of $175 per hour after 150 machine hours. Competing bids ranged from $118,732.64 to $122,501.79, with delivery times varying from in-stock to 120 days.