PARIS – Commissioners approved bids Tuesday for work at the Oxford County Regional Airport and three new police cruisers for the Oxford County Sheriff’s Office.

Glen Builders of North Conway, N.H., was selected to do the airport work, on condition the county’s airport consultant review it.

The company bid $1,493,023 for the project, which includes the rehabilitation of the single 3,000-foot runway, earthwork, lights, sign relocation and tree clearing.

Also bidding were R. J. Grondin & Sons of Gorham for $1,498,480; Pike Industries of Poland for $1,530,522; K & K Excavation of Turner for $1,535,944; Sargent Corp. of Stillwater for $1,537,897; Gendron & Gendron of Lewiston for $1,540,000; Shaw Brothers Construction of Gorham for $1,555,555.55; McGee Construction of West Gardiner for $1,642,169; and Wyman and Simpson Inc. of Richmond for $1,746,349.

“It’s been an extremely competitive bid process,” Commissioner Steve Merrill said.

The county received a $1,873,400 grant from the Federal Aviation Administration last year for work on the airport. The county and state will each have to match 2.5 percent of the project.

Although commissioners accepted the conditional offer by Gendron & Gendron last year for $1,281,063, the project went out to bid again after the company said it would take a financial loss if it did the work at that price. Shaw Brothers Construction and K & K Excavation also bid on the project at that time for $1,553,850 and $1,820,698, respectively.

Commissioners voted to accept a bid from Bessey Motor Sales of Paris for three new Dodge Chargers with V8 engines for police cruisers. The company offered the Chargers for $23,675 each, or a total of $71,025.

The new cars replace a 2005 and two 2006 Ford Crown Victorias.