With a flurry of new fire stations being built in Grand Junction, one local contractor said the cityâs bidding process has unfairly excluded him, but the city says it is making the best decisions it can for the taxpayers.
PNCI Construction Inc. President Frank DeSantis said his company pursued the contract for Fire Station 6, which opened last November at 729 27 Road. It was the first of several new fire stations to be built in the next few years after the passage of the 2B First Responders Tax in 2019.
DeSantisâ company did not get the contract, which used the Construction Manager/General Contractor (CMGC) method. A CMGC project does include discretion on the part of the city to include metrics other than price to determine the winning bid, which in the case of Fire Station 6 went to FCI Construction. DeSantis said that wasnât fair to his company.