CRESTVIEW — The City Council has unanimously accepted several bids in connection with the city’s website, auditing services, and storm damage repair.
Website design and maintenance: Redoing and upgrading the city’s website received funding for the 2015-16 budget year.
Requests for proposals were issued, and bids were opened Nov. 23, reviewed and graded. By the council’s vote, CivicPlus, the recommended vendor, received the project.
“Goals…were to improve the overall website capabilities while relieving some of the burden on city employees to maintain the upkeep,” City Clerk Betsy Roy stated in a council brief.
Bidding for the job, which was budgeted at $20,000, were:
●CivicPlus: $14,593, annual fee of $2,974
●Revise: $19,800, annual fee of $4,900
●Civic Live: $26,500, annual fee of $4,600
●CMS Website: $60,000, annual fee of $5,000
●Amees: $78,857, no annual fee
Auditing services: After extending its contract with Carr, Riggs and Ingram for one year, Roy’s office sought bids, including from CRI, to assure the city is receiving the best price for auditing services.
Responses to this RFP were also opened Nov. 23. The 2015-16 budget contained $45,000 for audits for the 2015, ’16 and ’17 fiscal years. The council accepted Saltmarsh Financial Advisors’ bid.
Bids included:
●Warren Averitt: 2015, $43,665; 2016, $44,538; and 2017, $45,429
●CRI: $45,200 for each of the three years
●Saltmarsh: 2015, $41,600; 2016, $42,700; and 2017, $43,800
Gil-Ava Street drainage restoration: With receipt of U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service grant money, Crestview Public Works solicited bids to repair washout damage on Gil-Ava Street that occurred during the April 29-30, 2014, storm.
The council accepted consultants CH2MHill’s recommendation to award the project to Carter’s Contracting Services, which offered the lowest bid.
Submitted bids included:
●Carter’s: $828,015.92
●Gulf Coast Utility Contractors: $1,185,997.40
●H&T Contractors: $1,318,141
●C.W. Roberts Contracting: $1,427,501.77
This article originally appeared on Crestview News Bulletin: Crestview City Council accepts $971K in project bids