Ringgold opens bids for new middle school
NEW EAGLE – Ringgold School District opened more than 30 bids Tuesday from contractors interested in constructing a new middle school, and the prices came in slightly under the building’s $34.2 million budget, the school board president said.
“That’s good news,” said board President William Stein Jr. after the bids were opened at the district administration offices in New Eagle.
He said there isn’t much else to say about the bids until the district’s managers and architects review them to ensure they meet the plan for the new school to be built at the high school campus off Route 136 in Carroll Township.
The two-story school will be constructed in the shape of a rectangle with an open central courtyard. The board is expected to award the bids when it meets at 7 p.m. March 16, Stein said. Construction is expected to begin on the school April 4, and the building is scheduled for completion as early as August 2017.
Massaro CM Services of Pittsburgh has already been hired as the construction manager for the project, at a cost of more than $500,000.
The general contractors who submitted bids for the school are: Hudson Group of Hermitage, Liokareas Construction Co. Inc. of Bethel Park, Lobar Inc. of Dillsburg, Nello Construction of Canonsburg, Vendrick Construction Inc. of Brookfield, Ohio, and Yarborough Development Inc. of McKeesport.
There were a number of other bids from companies for work, such as installing the heating and air conditioning in the building.