Dredging Lake Koshkonong TIMELINES

Here's where we're at on the experimental project:

Advertisement to bidders

Thanks Bill for the draft that you sent over.  We have added to it with material that we had on required process as well as a project description and schedule for bid document availability, pre-bid meeting and bid opening.  It’s attached as a Word document in case you have any specific edits. 

We've made several contacts to confirm the public advertisement requirements – RKLD has its street address (Brian's place) location in Rock County, and the project is in the Town of Sumner, Jefferson County.  We recommend that the advertisement to bidders be placed in the Jefferson County Daily Union and the Janesville Gazette.  Both of these newspapers are the "official" places for legal notices in the two counties.

If we get the advertisement to bidders to the newspapers on Monday, we can have it published by Thursday.  I know it's late in the day, but please get us any comments on the advertisement by Monday morning.

Proposed project schedule

·         Published advertisement to bidders: December 6 and December 13

·         Bid documents and bid form sent to Bill and Brian for review and comments: December 6

·         Bid documents available at Montgomery Associates: December 10

·         Pre-bid meeting: December 17

·         Bids due and bid opening: January 4

·         Recommendation to the RKLD Board and project award: January 8

·         Expected construction schedule: week of January 7 through February 1

I'd like to go faster, but I think the only way to do so would be to give the contractor's only a week or two to develop their bids, and have bids due either just before or just after Christmas.  I'm afraid that we may not get a good response if we do that, so I recommend that we have bids due January 4.