Port Angeles: School board awards contract to Colorado-based contractor

Published 12:01 am Tuesday, November 6, 2001

PORT ANGELES — A Colorado-based contractor who submitted the lowest bid to rebuild Jefferson Elementary School won the job Monday.

The Port Angeles School District held up the bid award for a week to check the references of RAS Builders, based in Denver with an office in Issaquah.

The School Board had expressed its desire to award the multimillion-dollar job to a Clallam County contractor in the hopes of creating jobs for local residents.

RAS Builders bid $4,189,475. The second lowest bid of $4,570,047 was proposed by Primo Construction Co. of Sequim.

Both bids came in lower than the school district’s estimate of $4.8 million to rebuild the school at 218 E. 12th St. from monies in a voter-approved bond earlier this year.

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