{"id":1709,"date":"2007-12-19T12:09:15","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T19:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1709"},"modified":"2007-12-19T12:12:24","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T19:12:24","slug":"all-alga-norte-park-bids-denied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1709","title":{"rendered":"All Alga Norte Park Bids Denied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, the Carlsbad City Council was worried that many of the bids they got for the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1520\" target=\"_blank\">Alga Norte Park project<\/a><\/strong> were too low, now they&#8217;ve voted (4-1 according to the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2007\/12\/19\/news\/coastal\/2_02_0712_19_07.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>) to reject all six park construction bids and start the entire process over again.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>City staff members had recommended the council&#8217;s move, arguing that there were multiple problems with the bids the city received. &#8220;We felt it was in the public&#8217;s best interest to reject all bids and start over,&#8221; said <strong>Skip Hammann<\/strong>, the city&#8217;s municipal projects director, after the council&#8217;s vote. . . . Key among the problems was that the lowest bidder &#8212; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.consolidatedcontracting.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Consolidated Contracting Services<\/a><\/strong> of San Clemente, which bid $29.3 million &#8212; didn&#8217;t submit all the required information about the subcontractors it would be using, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re guessing it&#8217;s better to weed out the problems now, than wait until the contractors decide to cut corners on the skateboard park.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2007\/12\/19\/news\/coastal\/2_02_0712_19_07.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, the Carlsbad City Council was worried that many of the bids they got for the Alga Norte Park project were too low, now they&#8217;ve voted (4-1 according to the North County Times) to reject all six park construction bids and start the entire process over again. City staff members had recommended the council&#8217;s move, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}