Round Rock City Council rejected a bid for its water treatment plant improvement project at its May 22 meeting. The city received one proposal, submitted by Prota, which came out to about $1 million more than the estimated cost for the project.
"Because the bid came in so much over the engineering estimate and we only had one bidder, we would like the reject that bid," Director of Public Works Michael Thane said at the meeting.
Some context
Round Rock owns and operates a surface water treatment plant with the capacity to treat about 52 million gallons of water per day through three phases. The three phases were built from 1996 to 2003 and require regular maintenance and replacement.
