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City of Nashua, Public Works Division
Board of Public Works Meeting Date: February 24, 2022
David L. Boucher, Superintendent
Wastewater Department
Bid Award for Primary and Secondary Digester Coating Project
To approve the award of the Primary and Secondary Digester Coating project to
John W. Egan Company, Inc. from West Newton, MA in the amount of $339,500.
Funding will be through Department: 169 Wastewater; Fund: Wastewater;
Activity: Digester/Gas Tank Coating.
The digester complex consist of a primary digester, secondary digester, gas tank
and energy recovery building, constructed in 1999. Recent upgrades have been
made to the gas tank and energy recovery building. The primary and secondary
digester have the original coating and outer coatings need to be upgraded. The
primary digester has an outer foam coating that needs to be reapplied at certain
location where the existing foam has degraded. That will be followed by a new
exterior coating. The secondary digester has corrosion showing which will be
removed prior to recoating the entire structure. New coatings will also be applied
to the center stairwell between the structures and the bridges from the stairwell to
each structure.
Quotes for this project were obtained from several vendors who specialize in
industrial coatings. The following bids were received:
Company Base Bid Bid Alt A,B,C Total Bid
John. W. Eagan Co. | $301,900 $37,600 $339,500
R.J. Forbes $299,130 $47,910 $347,040
Soep Painting Corp | $605,000 $29,950 $634,950
The award will be given to combined base bid plus bid alternates since the low
bid quote came in significantly less than the estimated and budgeted cost.
Egan Company is the lowest qualified bidder. They have done satisfactory work
previously at the NWTF as a subcontractor on the primary tank upgrades. Several
other references were checked and found that their work to be satisfactory too.
