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City opens bids for fire department vehicle maintenance building; engineer’s estimate $1.95M

5964807 · October 8, 2025

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Summary

Bossier City opened five bids for the new fire department vehicle maintenance building (Bid P25-07). The engineer’s estimate was $1,950,000. Bids ranged from $2,124,000 to $2,560,000; council voted to take the bids under advisement.

Bossier City officials opened bids for Bid P25-07, the construction of a new vehicle maintenance building for the fire department, and read the base bids and alternates aloud. The engineer’s estimate for the project is $1,950,000 and the project is funded by ordinance number 30 of 2025. The clerk reported three addenda for the project.

Bids and base amounts read into the record were:

Blocker Builders LLC — base bid $2,124,000; alternate 1 $67,500; alternate 2 $27,200; alternate 3 $4,200. Brown Builders — base bid $2,560,000; alternate 1 $94,000; alternate 2 $28,500; alternate 3 $4,400. Hand Construction LLC — base bid $2,196,000; alternate 1 $63,000; alternate 2 $28,000; alternate 3 $4,000. M and M Builders Incorporated — base bid $2,174,000; alternate 1 $64,500; alternate 2 $28,500; alternate 3 $4,385. Thrash Construction Services — base bid $2,250,000; alternate 1 $89,500; alternate 2 $62,500; alternate 3 $13,700.

Council asked staff to email a breakdown of the alternates and took the bids under advisement for later award. The clerk recommended the council take the bids under advisement; the council voted to do so by voice vote.