Bid Protest Questions Improper Selection

A Florida contractor has filed a bid protest questioning how a firm originally ranked number 10 out of 22 responses was added to the short list of five qualified contractors permitted to bid a county Design-Build Aquatics Complex project.  

West Construction has questioned how Martin County, Florida officials made the decision to add Bayview Construction to the list of qualified bidders.  Bayview ended up submitting the low bid at $8.7 million, with West's bid coming in at second place for $10.6 million.  By a 4-1 vote, the county awarded the contract to Bayview on January 26, 2010.

According to West's attorney, Bruce Loren, "the Selection Committee did their job, they had an open meeting, they chose the top five firms who would submit the proposals, but they did not choose Bayview.  Then, without any other further meeting, and somehow we don't know, Bayview was somehow added to the list of five most qualified firms."

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