City officials opened bids this week to spruce up a water tower on 41st Street.
With a $700,000 budget, public works officials plan to paint and repair the blue tower that sits next to the Ocean City convention center.
City Manager Terry McGean and Councilman Tony DeLuca, the council secretary, opened bids from two companies at the beginning of a Tuesday work session.
The first bid, from Baltimore-based K &K Painting, exceeded the budget by more than $200,000 at a total more than $916,600. The second bid came from Washington, Pennsylvania-based D&M Painting Corporation and included two amounts. The first was a lump sum of just over $788,900, and second was for contingency items for a total $635,450.
Council members voted to remand the bids back to staff members for review and evaluation.
In recent months, bids for various city recreation, public works and other projects have come in over budget, sometimes by hundreds of thousands of dollars, because of inflation and supply chain issues.
This story appears in the Sept. 30, 2022 print edition of the OC Today.
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