Friday, July 31, 2009
Think you’ve got what it takes to pen Maplewood’s Monthly Newsletter?
On Thursday, July 30, Maplewood announced on its Web site that the township is seeking proposals from parties interested in taking charge of the township’s official monthly newsletter. The current newsletter, the Leaflet, is sent to homes and is available as a PDF document online. Matters Magazine has handled the newsletter for the last year or so. Their contract is up, and the Leaflet is open for proposals. Proposals are due by noon on August 11. The official announcement is here.
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Work on the field may start as soon as August.
Work on the $1.27 million rehabilitation of DeHart Park field may kick off as soon as August now that the Maplewood Township Committee has awarded the work contract to Turco Golf, ending ongoing disputes about qualifications. Tuesday’s unanimous vote to award the contract came following a review of Suffern, NY-based Turco Golf’s work experience sparked off by a rival bidder, Andy-Matt, which was the lowest bidder on the project. Last month, Clough Harbour Associates, the Township’s consulting engineers, recommended that Andy-Matt’s bid be rejected for not satisfying requirements which included showing documentation of 10 similar projects over the past decade. Andy-Matt was only able to show nine, but argued that they should still be …
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Andy-Matt's attorney argues that his clients are qualified for the job and that the town's qualifications are flawed.
Effectively, attorney James Bryce spent about an hour talking his clients, the contractor Andy-Matt, out of a job that they didn’t have. At a hearing over contract bids at the July 7 Township Committee meeting, Bryce argued that Andy-Matt, the lowest bidders among contractors vying to rehab DeHart Park, was not, as the town decided previously, unqualified for the work. At the end of his argument, Township officials and employees seemed convinced that not only was Andy-Matt not qualified, but that the next lowest bidder, Turco Golf, might not qualified either. Last month, Andy-Matt submitted a bid of $1.19 million to complete the project, which includes rehabilitating the field's lights, grass and drainage. The cost for the work was …
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