Bid 25% under estimate: DeAtley lands Airport Road job

Clarkston-based DeAtley construction was awarded the contract to rebuild Whitman County’s Colfax Airport Road after bids were opened by county commissioners Monday morning.

DeAtley was the lowest of five bidders to rebuild the 3.09-mile road, quoting a price of $2,599,431, which was $897,478 less than the engineer’s estimate of $3,496,899.

“That’s much cheaper than I would have guessed,” said Public Works Director Mark Storey.

The rebuild project will widen the road, create shoulders, eliminate some of the road’s tight curves and better angle its banking.

Also bidding the job were Scarsella Br...