The Fire Station No. 3 Construction Project includes the construction of a new, single story station that is approximately 12,260 SF in size located on the north side of NE 36th Street at the entrance to Otter Creek Golf Course. The station that will be built will be very similar to Fire Station No. 2 on SE Oralabor Road, with three possible exceptions. There are four deduct alternates that are included with the base bid:
1) Remove the upper windows and lower the roof over the entry lobby.
2) Remove the upper windows and lower the roof over the apparatus bays.
3) Remove one of the three apparatus bays.
4) Remove one apparatus bay, remove the upper windows and lower the roof over the bays.
The station construction will be masonry walls with exterior brick, steel framing and metal stud walls. The wall finishes and color schemes will closely resemble those at Station No. 2. A concrete reinforced safe room will be constructed within the station as well. Construction will include grading, geothermal, civil, structural, mechanical, electrical and technology systems needed to provide a complete, functioning fire station.
The bid opening for this project was held on Tuesday, July 11, 2017. Nine bids were received as follows:
| 1. DDVI, Inc. (Indianola) |
$ 3,305,000.00 |
| 2. Jensen Builders (Ft. Dodge) |
$ 3,400,000.00 |
| 3. Henkel Construction (MasonCity) |
$3,407,000.00 |
| 4. Rochon Corporation (Urbandale) |
$3,453,000.00 |
| 5. HPC LLC (Ames) |
$ 3,470,000.00 |
| 6. Ball TeamLLC (Urbandale) |
$ 3,524,000.00 |
| 7. Dean Snyder Const. (Ankeny) |
$ 3,550,000.00 |
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8. Koester Construction (Grimes)
9. Lang Construction Group (WDM)
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$ 3,580,000.00
$ 3,597,000.00
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The engineer's estimate for the project was $4,136,003.00. The bids were very close and ranged from approximately 20% below to 13% below the engineer's estimate. SVPA is familiar with DDVI Inc., and this firm has done projects of this scope in the past. They are currently working on one of the elementary school expansion projects within Ankeny. It is recommended that the project be awarded to DDVI Inc., of Indianola, Iowa, with a base bid amount of $3,305,000.00. If Council chooses to accept the alternates as defined above, the contract amount would be reduced to the following values:
Alternate 1 = $ 3,257,000.00 (deduction of $48,000.00)
Alternate 2 = $ 3,279,000.00 (deduction of $26,000.00)
Alternate 3 = $ 3,226,000.00 (deduction of $79,000.00)
Alternate 4 = $ 3,219,000.00 (deduction of $86,000.00)
The actions by the council at this time conclude with the awarding of the construction contract to DDVI, Inc. in the amount determined by Council according to the alternates to be exercised, if any. Pending the award, the construction contract can be approved by Council at the July 31, 2017 meeting. If so, the contractor could start work as soon as on August 3, 2017 and would have until September 1, 2018 to fully complete the station. |