The mayor of Kure Beach, Allen Oliver, has sent out a letter about the recent development of the beach renourishment project, saying that the results of the opening bid for the Kure Beach solicitation were ‘less than favorable.’
According to Oliver, only one package was submitted (Weeks Marine) with a bid price of $37.5 million compared to the town’s independent government estimate of $19.6 million.
“I anticipate that we will cancel this solicitation, and move to reissue a solicitation targeting a contract award in the summer of 2025. This would push the scheduled renourishment cycle out another year. We will again be targeting the environmental window of 16 November 2025 to 30 April 2026,” Mayor Oliver wrote in the letter.
“We should get better pricing and more bidders participating. The reality is most contractors had projects awarded in other areas and they didn’t bid on our project because of the lateness in sending out the solicitation for bids. We have heard the USACE will advertise for bids late April to early May.”
“No specific dates have been set,” Oliver concluded.