The Pleasant Valley Intermediate School will be getting two new chiller units for air conditioning. They will replace two units that are failing.

At the school board’s workshop meeting on Jan. 8, Michael Sander, an engineer and construction manager for CHA Consulting in Bethlehem, talked about the bids that were received for the chiller units. Five companies expressed an interest in the project and four submitted bids.

Each company submitted a base bid and a bid for an alternate option.

The first alternate option asked the companies to provide a cost to be added or deducted from the base bid to install new pad mounted chillers as indicated in the construction documents.

The second alternate option asked them to provide a cost to be added or deducted from the base bid with chillers manufactured by Trane in lieu of the base bid equipment provided by Trane, Carrier or York as stated in the construction documents.

ASL Mechanical provided a base bid of $806,650 plus a bid for alternate #1 of $345,960 for a total bid of $1,152,610. Similarly, Trefz Mechanical gave a base bid of $1 million and a bid for alternate #1 of $408,000 for a total of $1,480,000.

Myco Mechanical and Worth & Company Inc. provided bids for both alternate #1 and #2.

Myco’s base bid was $792,000. The bid for alternate #1 was $195,000 and the bid for alternate #2 was $200,000.

Worth’s base bid was $886,000 with an alternate #1 bid of $257,000 and an alternate #2 bid of $25,000.

In order to compare all four companies, Sander’s prepared a chart that compared the total bids using the base bid and only alternate #1.

Myco’s total bid was $987,000. Worth’s total bid was $1,143,000.

“All of the bids are below what we had budgeted,” Sander said.

Sander recommended to the school board that they select Myco, since it had the lowest bid. Myco is currently working for the school district on the high school renovation project.

School board director John Gesiski asked if the units have a warranty. Sander said the units do carry a five- to 15-year warranty.

The school board does not take official votes at the workshop sessions. The project will be voted on at their meeting at 7 p.m. on Jan. 22 in the district building meeting room.