Garco and Lydig are low bidders on Cheney middle schools

Bid packages low enough for district to accept alternates

By BECKY THOMAS

Staff Reporter

The bids were opened and the machinery could be rolling within weeks.

More than a dozen construction firms vied to build two new middle schools in the Cheney School District. The lowest bidders were Lydig Construction, on the Betz Road site next to the current middle school, and Garco Construction, on the Abbott Road site behind Windsor Elementary School.

Lydig's base bid was $24.8 million, while Garco's base bid was $25.5 million. NAC Architects, which designed both schools and prepared the bid documents,...