North Battleford city council has given administration the authority to award a tender to the lowest bidder to bring down the “Pigeon Hotel.”
That monicker refers to the two pigeon infested properties located at the corner of 11th Avenue and 102nd Street.
Monday night, administration reported that they were still going through the proposals received from contractors last week to demolish the buildings. Six bids have been received with the lowest one quoted at $103,000.
But administration said they were still reviewing the bids and were not in a position to make a recommendation to council on who should be awarded the tender.
Rather than wait for their next council meeting July 22, administration recommended council give them the authority to award the contract to the low tender, “if there are no other issues to be concerned about,” explained City Manager Jim Puffalt to reporters.
That means administration has the go-ahead to award a contract to the lowest bidder and allow them to get on with the work, rather than waiting to get it approved at another meeting.
“We didn’t want to wait a month to get this building down,” said Puffalt.
“We have some time restrictions in the contract and certainly delaying it a month would delay the project on the back end.” The city is requiring the buildings come down by the end of September as a condition of the contract.
The plan is for administration to report back to council about the awarding of the tender at the July 22 meeting.
