Colleyville company tabbed as Cavendar Road general contractor

 A Colleyville construction company was selected as the general contractor for the Cavendar Road project.
The Scurry County Commissioners’ Court unanimously approved hiring Lone Wolf Construction, LLC, for the project during today’s meeting. The company had the low bid of $1,529,573.
David Todd, the senior vice president of Enprotec/Hibbs and Todd in Abilene, said Lone Wolf is an approved contractor by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT).
Other bids received were from MH Civil Constructors, Inc., of Amarillo, $1,911,863; Black Jack Energy Services, LLC, of Big Spring, $1,665,570; J.H. Strain and Sons, Inc., of Tye, $1,657,937; Nobles Road Construction, Inc., of Abilene, $2,155,630; and Price Construction, of Big Spring,  $2,313,490.
Todd said Nobles’ bid ended up higher than first announced due to calculation errors.
Commissioners voted in April 2014 to use $2,074,427 from the TxDOT infrastructure fund grant program to help pay for the proposed truck bypass.
Scurry County will match 20 percent of the project’s cost as part of the grant’s conditions.
The proposed road will run from Blockline Road for approximately 1.8 miles east to Hwy. 350. Commissioners had previously said that the proposed Cavendar Road is needed as a truck bypass route due to the high truck traffic volume on Hwy. 350.
Commissioners discussed, but did not take action on, a possible change order of taking out the striping and seeding, which is work that could be done by county crews.
County Judge Ricky Fritz said no other county road has stripes and the $7,885 cost could be taken out. The seeding had a cost of $42,500.
Fritz said since the bid came in under estimates, the county could look at doing additional work. He mentioned the widening of Blockline Road, which was one of three original projects the county sought funding for through the grant program.
“That could be a future agenda item,” he said.
The court also approved going out for bids for a 1975 Ford fire truck the county wants to sell. Fritz said the truck is considered surplus equipment.