VERONA – Bids for the new Shenandoah Valley Animals Services Center are in.
In 2022, the three municipal owners of the Shenandoah Valley Animals Services Center, Augusta County, Staunton, and Waynesboro, agreed to move animal shelters services from center’s current Lyndhurst location to the former Verona Elementary School building, according to a press release from Augusta County.
Around 2 p.m. on Monday, about five people with notebooks came to the Augusta County Government Center. Three men placed yellow envelopes on the folding table at the front of the room, their company logos fixed in the top corner. Each represented a company’s hope that its bid would be lower and more complete than its competition, winning the county’s renovation contract. As the bids were opened, each was read aloud twice, giving the men a chance to write down and double check their competitor’s estimated construction price.
The bids are as follows:
- $7,011,970 from Harrisonburg Construction out of Dayton.
- $7,314,000 from Nielsen Builders out of Harrisonburg.
- $6,809,271.50 from Harman Construction out of Harrisonburg.