PIERRE, (KCCR) — The South Dakota state Transportation Commission has approved a bid to install three structures under creeks in Haakon County near Philip on U-S Highway 14. Sam Weisgram with the Department of Transportation says three companies made bids for the work…
Weisgram told the Commission the Department rejected earlier bids on the project due to cost…
Weisgram says the bids are likely going to be as good as they get…
The engineer’s estimate for the work was 11-point-seven million dollars. Bids by A-G-E Corporation and Morris Incorporated, both of Fort Pierre came in at 18-point-six million dollars, only 31-hundred dollars apart. The work will replace structures over Grindstone, Belcher and Wilburn Creeks in Haakon County.