The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-07-15
AFTER CAREFUL COMPARISON or
SEVERAL BIDS NEXT TO
LOWEST is TAKEN.
KENNEDY COMPANY WINS
Large Amount Of Machinery to 30
Shipped 10 Missoula In,nrsdi ateiy-
Work 10 De Well Under Way by
August t5-Contractor Has Large
Experience.

Missoula IL to have a modern sewer
system. The city council has voted
unanimously to award the contract to
the James Kennedy Construction COM
pany of Salt Lake city. The amount
OF this company's bid was $t9S.645.45.
But. inasmuch az this amount included
figures on a portion of the work In
concrete and the same portion In brick.
and only one material viii be used.
something like $4,000 should be de-
Quoted from the total bid.
Yesterday afternoon a second meet
ing was hold In the city engineers
office. at which all members OF both
council committee and citizens COM
mittee, save Carl Greenhood. who Is out
of the city. were present. City At
torney Woody reported the substance
of the reply received by him from Mr..
Larson of the II. NJ. Bsrdscn company
In answer to the communication he
had been authorized to send him. Tho
reply did not differ materially from
what Mr.. Larson had already SAIL to
the committee at the time of it's rre-
vious meeting
Larson.
Mr.. Larson himself again appeared
before the committee and In very
frank talk. tactfully led by Mr.. Lusk.
admitted that his firm had been In
error on part of their bid and he would
really feel well satisfied II II were not
accepted by the city For myself
he said. "I'd as soon let 1t go as
take IT.
Mr.. Kennedy of the James Kennedy
Construction company also appeared
before the committee and gave ready
assurance on several points In ques"
tion. After he had left. the commit
tee lost little time In expressing itself
unanimously In favor of letting the
contract to the Kennedy company. II
was then voted by the combined com
mittees to instruct the council com
mittee on contracts and estimates tn
report to the council a recommendation
that the contract for the sewers be
awarded to the Kennedy Construction
company.
According to special arrangement and
call. a meeting OF the city council was
held at 1870 In the evening. at which
the following report was submitted. all
aldermen being present brt Mccormick.
who Is out of tho city. After being
read. tho report. on motion of Alder
man Corbett. was unanimously accept.
cd and the contract awarded to the
James Kennedy Construction company.
Renort.
Following Is tho committee report.
which makes clear the councils reasons
for accepting bid almost $5s.000
higher than another bid which was re-
ceived:
"To the Honorable Mayor aud coun-
cil of the city Of Missoula. Montana:
we. your committee. together with
the business mems committee. to whom
was referred the bids for construction
of north side sanitary sewer system.
desire to report as follows:
after the various bids had been tab
ulated by the engineer In charge of
sewer work so that they could be read
ilv compared. we carefully examined
the same and found that the totals of
the various bids, based upon the engi-
neer's estimate of approximate guam
titles. were as follows:
r. NJ. Bardsen 4 Co of Butte.
Montana .....~........... s,5s3.s so
James Kennedy Construction
Go. of SAT- Lake City. Utah i9s.645.45
Skogland. Nordstrom & Co.
OF Butte, Montana .............. 2O0.01s.45
James II. Fife of Spokane.
Wash. Observation-Disclosures. 2o2.471.so
Gilbert w Taggart of Fargo,
Nd. ......s......a..a,-4..,......,... 227.s7s.15
I'VE aso examined the engineers cs-
timate of cost OF construction. based
upon his estimate of approximate
quantities, and found 1t to be $780,
24 80
I'VE found that the bid OF r. M
pardsen a. Co, who we're the lowest
bidders. was s62,Osl,65 lower than that
of the next lowest bidder the James
Kennedy Construction company, whose
bid was $l9s.S45.45.
We also found that the hid Of r.
NJ. Bardsen e Co. was s52.6S059 lower
than the estimate of cost made by the
engineer
"On account of the great difference
In the bid of r. NJ. Bardsen e. Co
and that of tae next lowest bidder. and
also the great difference in the bid Of
r. NJ. Bardsen & Co. and the engi-
neer's estimate of cost OF construction,
we deemed II wise TO have representa-
tives OF r. NJ. Bardsen & Co. and OF
the James Kennedy Construction com
pany appear before rs, In order that
we might examine them as to their
bids and also inquire into their finan-
cial responsibilities. manner in which
they proposed to do the work, the time
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