City accepts bid for new City Hall construction

The Graham City Council approved Inman Construction’s bid for the remodeling of the American Legion Building to become the new City Hall Thursday during their regular meeting.

Local bids for the project were due to the city Wednesday, July 24, and it was printed locally for three weeks. In a council meeting Thursday, July 25, City Manager Brandon Anderson said the city bid locally first because there were local vendors who felt excluded from the bidding process for the last renovations on the property adjacent to the American Legion Building. The council opened the scope of the bidding process during their meeting Thursday, Aug. 8.

“We only had two (local) bids received the first time, so it is a highly recommended practice that you get three,” Anderson said Thursday. “We ran it in the Wichita Falls paper and worked with our architect BYSP, out of Wichita Falls, to promote the project on a larger basis and received four more bids.”

The $229,000 bid accepted from Inman Construction was one of six obtained through BYSParchitects. The other bids were $253,000 from Trinity Hughes Construction, $256,400 from Doyle’s Construction and Manufacturing Inc., $266,850 from Cunningham Clark Construction, $315,000 from IE Construction LLC. and $350,777 JC Commercial.

“All six bids as reviewed by Dick (Richard H.) Bundy with BYSParchitects are qualified bids and I recommend at this time that we take, consider and accept the low bid of $229,000 from Inman Construction,” Anderson said.

Mayor Neal Blanton said Inman was the company which did the previous remodeling of the facility, so they have a familiarity with the property.

For the rest of the story, see the Saturday, Sept. 21 edition of The Graham Leader.