Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Boynton Beach: Marina work starts despite legal challenge - The Coastal Star

The Boynton Beach CRA is being sued by Lake Worth-based West Construction over the award of a contract to construct a Harbor Master project, just north of the Two Georges restaurant. They were the low bidder on the project but are claiming that the award to the second lowest bidder was arbitrary, among other claims. Click title for link to the Coastal Star article:
The latest renovation project at Boynton Harbor Marina, the Harbor Master building, was under construction in mid April despite a lawsuit filed by West Construction that seeks to stop the work.
    Attorneys for Lake Worth-based West, the lowest bidder on the Harbor Master project, filed suit against the Boynton Beach Community Redevelopment Agency on March 13, less than a week after Lake Mary-based Collage Design and Construction Group broke ground on the building.
    Collage was the second-lowest bidder on the contract. The complaint against the CRA, which owns the marina and awarded the construction contract to Collage, asks a judge to stop the work and award the contract to West.
    The lawsuit claims that stipulations in the invitation to bid on the marina project — including a requirement that the bidders had not been a party to litigation or arbitration arising from a public project within the past two years — violate Florida law.