Harrison gets nine bids for mowing, maintenance

HARRISON – For the first time in recent history, selectmen received nine bids for a number of mowing, cleaning and maintenance contracts last week.

Usually only two or three companies or people submit bids for the work, which includes mowing cemeteries, taking care of the town’s RADR athletic field, roadside mowing and maintaining parks and beaches.

“I’ve never seen this many bids,” Selectman Lisa Villa said at Thursday’s selectmen’s meeting when the bids were opened and read.

“I guess it’s the economy,” she added.

Referring to administrative assistant Mary Tremblay, Town Manager Bud Finch said, “Mary has kept these in sealed envelopes. The only information people had the right to know was last year’s bid amounts. That’s public information.”

Selectmen followed the town manager’s advice to change the length of the contracts this time from the town’s fiscal year (July 1 to June 30) to a calendar year so that the work isn’t split in the middle of the season. The contracts were advertised several times in the newspaper, Finch said.

No bid awards were made after they were opened however, because there were questions about several of them. Selectmen asked Finch to review them, contact the bidders for clarification, if necessary, and make a recommendation at the next meeting at 7 p.m. Feb. 2.

According to the town manager and Tremblay, the bids that were submitted include:

TRS Timber Maintenance Inc., Plummer Hill Road, Waterford: roadside mowing, $6,500; transfer station mowing, $600;

Premier Landscaping, Naples; Brandon Chase, owner; cemeteries, $7,000; RADR athletic field, $1,935; parks and beaches, $18,550;

Four Seasons Landscape Service, Harrison, Wayne Head, owner, RADR mowing, $5,500; cemetery mowing, $1,700; parks and beaches $18, 995;

Finishing Touch Landscaping, Casco; Kyle Chute, owner; parks and beaches, $24,000; cemeteries, $3,500; RADR price per mow, $300, estimated 10 mowings or a total of $6,500 for cemeteries and RADR; Chute won these two contracts last year;

Four Seasons Maintenance, Harrison, Mike Ward, owner; RADR and cemeteries, $275 per mowing at RADR, cemeteries $3,000 for the season;

Alan Bigelow, Harrison, parks and beaches, $25,000 for a three-year contract (preferred but not mandatory); Bigelow won this contract last year;

CPS Maintenance, Bridgton; William Keniston, owner; RADR mowing, $10,800; cemeteries mowing, $10,800;

Lake Region Home and Property Services, Naples; Nick Roy, owner; RADR mowing, $2,800; cemeteries, $9,300;

Harrison Scribner, roadside mowing, $3,200; parks and beaches, $18,900; cemeteries, mowing and maintenance, $2,900; transfer station mowing, $850; RADR, $3,200.

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