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The Frontiersman
Wasilla, Palmer, Alaska
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Boise-based Morrison-Knudsen Co. Inc. submitted the lowest bid of $1,620,516 for paving 15 miles of Alaska's Sterling Highway between Anchor Point and Homer, as announced by Highways Commissioner D. A. McKinnon on Nov. 15; contract award recommended.
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Morrison-Knudsen Co. Inc., Boise, Idaho, has entered the apparent low bid for paving 15 miles of the Sterling Highway between Anchor Point and Homer. Highways Commissioner D. A. McKinnon said Nov. 15.
The bid was $1,620,516, more than $800,000 below the engineers' estimate on the project. McKinnon recommended award of the contract.
Other bidders were S. S. Mullen Inc., Seattle, Wash., $1,714,000; Cheney Construction Co., Seattle, $1,775,887; M-B Contracting Co., Seattle, $1,893,292; and Rogers Construction Co. and Babler Brothers, Portland, Ore., $1,985,521.
Work on the project calls for placing a crushed aggregate base and hot bituminous concrete pavement on 15.306 miles of roadway and raising an existing 80-foot bridge across the Anchor River. The contractor will have 180 working days to complete the project after he is given his notice to proceed.
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Sterling Highway Between Anchor Point And Homer
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Nov. 15
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morrison-knudsen co. inc. entered the apparent low bid of $1,620,516, more than $800,000 below engineers' estimate; mckinnon recommended award of the contract
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Morrison-Knudsen Co. Inc., Boise, Idaho, has entered the apparent low bid for paving 15 miles of the Sterling Highway between Anchor Point and Homer. Other bidders were S. S. Mullen Inc., Seattle, Wash., $1,714,000; Cheney Construction Co., Seattle, $1,775,887; M-B Contracting Co., Seattle, $1,893,292; and Rogers Construction Co. and Babler Brothers, Portland, Ore., $1,985,521. Work calls for placing a crushed aggregate base and hot bituminous concrete pavement on 15.306 miles of roadway and raising an existing 80-foot bridge across the Anchor River. The contractor will have 180 working days to complete the project after notice to proceed.