12/15/2017 PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION COMMITTEE Minutes

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Mashpee Planning and Construction Committee ✓� Minutes of Meeting Held Friday,December 15, 2017 Mashpee Town Hall—Ockway Meeting Room Committee Members Present: Steve Cook, Geoffrey Gorman, and Joe Brait. Absent: Tom O'Neill. Also Present: Catherine Laurent, DPW Patty DeBoer, School Superintendent Chairman Steve Cook called the meeting to order at 12:02 p.m. Approval of Minutes Joe Brait motioned to accept the minutes of the Meeting of November 30, 2017; Steve Cook seconded the motion. Vote: 2 Yes; 1 Abstain. Joe Brait,yes. Geoffrey Gorman, abstain. Steve Cook,yes. Old Business Update on Quashnet School Window/Roof Project Catherine Laurent reported that the Attorney General approved the bid protest of Apex so we delayed the bid opening until Tuesday. Catherine said 8 Contractor bids were received and the range was just under$7-Million to just over$8-Million. Catherine said the estimate for the project was $9.1-Million,just for construction. RDA and the OPM did the reference check for the 3 low bidders. The lowest bid was from J J Cardosi, East Providence, Rhode Island. J J. Cardosi's bid was $6,994,000. Cardosi's DCAM rating was 93 out of 100. The references were checked and everyone gave very high references except for one project rated an"adequate", a fire station in the Town of Randolph. Catherine said she spoke with Jeff this morning and he spoke with the town, as well as Cardosi to determine the reason for rating them low on the categories for change orders and project schedule. Cardosi said the owner was not happy with what was proposed by the architect, which resulted in them having to do changes after construction that resulted in change orders and additional costs. Other category ratings were 3-4 out of 1-5 scale. It was just those 2 items that were rated"adequate". Other references scored Cardosi "good" or"preferred"...their category ratings were 5's and 4's out of 1-5 scale. Patty DeBoer asked if Cardosi has done similar school projects. Catherine said they did 2 school door and window projects at Worcester schools last year (2016)--one was a$4.5-Million project, and one was a$3-Million project. Catherine said they also did a couple of school projects, a housing authority project, and a Mass Military project.