Mendocino Coast District Hospital board members approved changes and a new bid to several renovation projects at a special meeting on Jan. 15.
Replacement of the hospital’s automatic transfer switch, which puts the facility on a backup generator, received a single bidder, Fort Bragg Electric, which was accepted unanimously by the board.
The amount of the bid, $709,775, was significantly higher than a 2015 estimate of $573,487.Nancy Schmid, the hospital’s quality/risk manager who is overseeing several long-term projects, said the higher cost is driven by basic inflation, but also by the difficulty (and added cost) of finding contractors for large projects […]
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