Bellevue Floods! Help stop the flooding on Covert Run Pike

“The bid opening for Covert Run was yesterday. We didn’t receive ANY bids, which was highly unusual to SD1, myself, KZF Engineers, and the Northern Ky Water District.

The partners in the project have spent most of today discussing options on how to rebid and talking to vendors who picked up the plan as to why they didn’t bid. Many of the responses indicate there were other bid requests open at the same time and the vendors responded to those bids rather than ours.

The project will be placed out for rebid. We are working with SD1 and KZF for the new timetable. I wish it was better news, but I thought you should know about it.”

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While this news is disheartening to say the least, let’s try to look at the bright side. As Keith points out, these results surprised all parties involved and are presumably atypcial for a project of this scope. We have every reason to believe that once the bidding resumes, vendors will bid and we can look forward to getting our street repaired.

In the meantime, however, we still have a responsibility to ask the difficult questions that Keith failed to cover in his communication: Why did vendors ignore the bid request? Does the budget fall short? Is the project not feasible? How long will it take to resume the bidding process? What do we do if the next round fails to elicit bids?

I urge you to contact Bellevue City Council with any questions you have. Call Keith Spoelker at (859) 431-8866 and let him know that you will do what it takes to help see that our flooding problems are resolved. We need to remind them that this issue is not going away for us, so we will not go away either.

Please check back to the site regularly as I will be posting updates and information as I get it.

Keep looking forward!