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Frank Trando, Finance Director
Kenneth M. Griffin, P.E., City Engineer ~-5
M. Shohre Daneshmand, P.E., Civil Engineer
Bid Advertisement - No. Q-1092-04
Traffic Signals at:
1) MacArthur Blvd./Samuel Blvd.
2) Bethel Road/Coppell Road
December 3, 1992
The above referenced project was advertised in the Citizen's Advocate on October 30, November
6, and 13, 1992. A copy of the bid announcement was also sent to sixteen (16) contractors on
October 23, 1992. I have made telephone calls to seven (7) contractors and only four (4)
contractors were available to provide comments as to why they chose not to bid the above
project. Please note the following comments:
Innovated Systems Co.. Inc.
This type of work runs in a cycle. Contractors usually are either too busy to bid
another project, or do not have enough projects to bid on.
Travel time from Mesquite to Coppell does not make small projects feasible
(geographical location).
If there are lots of contractors bidding the project, why bother! Some can't
compete that well and so they don't bid.
Shamrock Electric, Inc.
Did not receive the bid announcement, otherwise, they would have bid.
According to Karen George of Barton-Aschman, Associates, Inc., they had also
said they were too busy to bid!
Fishbach and Moore, Inc.
Too many contractors were bidding the same project, so they decided not to bid.
Memo to Frank Trando
December 3, 1992
Page 2
Fred Randall Co.
Too busy to bid.
They have lots of State, City and County projects in Houston area.
Seldom do they bid on projects (especially small projects) out of Houston area.
In addition, Durable Specialties, Inc. was contacted by Mrs. George of Barton-Aschman, and
the response was that they did not receive the bid announcement, but too busy to bid the week
of bid opening, anyway.
If you need any additional information, please let me know.
KMG/MSD/bd
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