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By Chris Case
STEELVILLE – Bids for a health department generator will be extended another week.
The commission discussed the need to extend the bids at their Monday meeting, and later followed up their talk with action.
The bids were originally to be due on August 13. Paul Downing, a potential bidder for the project, met with the commission and told them he could get a bid together but it would be better if the county gave their bidders more time to get detailed information about the type of generator they wanted and the amount of installation work required.
“I need another week to get a good bid” on the generator, he said. “I can get you a bid (by the 13th) but it wouldn’t be the best.”
He said it would be “an advantage to the county to extend the bids. You could get more bidders and maybe even contact some people.”
Commissioner Neil Swyers suggested putting an advertisement in the newspaper announcing the seven-day extension.
“It’ll help (the county) more than anybody,” Downing added. “You want the right generator and you want the right bid, I would think.”
The generator will be used at the health department building to protect refrigerated materials such as the vaccine freezer in times of power outage.
This week’s bid advertisement calls for bids to be received no later than 10 a.m. on Monday, August 20 in the clerk’s office.
More information on the type of generator the health department needs, their power supply, and other important facts can be gotten by contacting the department’s director Shirley Stulce at 775-2555.
Bids will be opened on August 20.
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