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Bids & Proposals
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INVITATION to BIO
BALLFIELD CONSTRUCTION
The Board of Supervisors of Rappahannock County is accepting bids on the construction of a baseball field, a softball field and grading of a parking area on property that it owns adjacent to the Rappahannock County Elementary School or Schoolhouse Road. The project is a reduced version of one proposed by the Rappahannock County Public Schools earlier this year. Eliminated from those plans are the field house, bleachers, dugouts, well, sanitary sewer, phone & electric, fencing, parking lot stone & wheel stops, rock excavation sand/clay mixture for infield, sod, mowing & watering and surveying stakeout and testing.
Added to the plans are application of a protective layer of temporary winter mulch until such time ir spring of 2000 that permanent seeding can be accomplished and additional soil preparation in the spring to accomplish that seeding.
The full scope of work may be described as/
Silt fence erosion control along bottom of all slopes, stripping and stockpiling of 8” of topsoil, cutting and filling to the grades shown on the revised plan including taking the required borrow material from the area south and west of the site (all owned by Rappahannock County), fine grading of all subgrades to + or - 0.2’, return of 8' topsoil to turf areas, temporary winter mulching of all disturbed areas and permanent seeding and mulching of ati disturbed areas in the Spring of 2000. The proposed parking lot would be left at subgrade. The infields would nave a dirt surface. Rock excavation should il be encountered, will be paid for extra. Surveying, stakeout and testing to be provided by owner.
The terms of competitive sealed bidding (§ 11-37 of the Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended) shall apply. Bids are due to the County Administration Office, 290 Gay Street, Washington, VA 22747 no later than 11:00 AM, Monday, November 1, 1999.
For further information, contact the County Administrator, John W. McCarthy, at (540)675-3342.
BY ORDER OF:
John W. McCarthy
County Administrator
10-20, 10-27-99 #283759
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