Town of Encampment approves bid for water project

The Encampment Town Council approved a bid from a Cheyenne construction company’s for Encampment’s Emergency Water Supply Project Thursday night.

Merrill Incorporated, a Cheyenne construction company, was approved for the bid and granted a notice of award for the project by the town council. Merrill Inc.’s bid was $120,322, the lowest of the three bids that PMPC Civil Engineers received.

Ken Schwerdt of PMPC said he was grateful to receive three bids for the project set to begin this summer.

“We got three bids, which is good for this size of a project, and they were higher than I expected they’d be,” said Ken Schwerdt of PMPC. “That primarily stems from the building where we’re going to house these meters and valves.”

The two other bids were from Westwood Curtis Construction in Jackson, which had a bid of $131,680, and 71 Construction, which has offices in Rawlins, Casper and Riverton. 71 Construction had the highest of the three bids at $149,377.

Schwerdt said the project could take only a couple of weeks to complete, and could begin in July.

Council members went into executive session to discuss seasonal summer employees and a potential new officer for the town police department. After the executive session, the council voted to hire Darion Vacher and Ashley Loftice as seasonal summer employees, and for the police officer position, schedule interviews for four of the applicants.

The town received seven applications and two resumes for the police officer position, with only one applicant being from Wyoming.

 

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