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Fr t EOOK IS PAGE 94 e. proposals came in; one bid was 5 minutes late, but Administrator Chandler had recommended that it be accepted; and after going through the formal process of ranking the firms, Proctor was ranked third. Administrator Chandler confirmed that was the process followed. The Board then authorized negotiations with the top 3 firms, and they began negotiating with Sverdrup, the firstranked firm, whose opening proposal was $540,000. After we indicated that was unacceptable, they reduced their fee, but in doing so severely limited their scope of services to the point that we felt we could not have received the product. We then negotiated with the second -ranked firm, Rooney Enterprises, whose opening proposal was a minimum of $343,000. However, that price did not include all of their expenses, and they resubmitted a revised fee schedule in the neighborhood of $330,000. We felt that was still too much for the services we would be receiving. We then went to negotiations with the third -ranked firm, Proctor Construction, whose opening proposal was somewhere in the neighborhood of $340,000. That was negotiated down to $280,000, which we felt is a more equitable fee for the type of services that we are going to be receiving. That $280,000 represents about 2.30 of the total construction costs for the 4 on-going projects, compared to the present average of approximately 40. Commissioner Scurlock asked how we allocated the costs to the separate projects, and Administrator Chandler advised that it was done strictly on a percentage basis according to the construction costs: 39.80 -- Phase III of the Jail 24.40 -- Health Building 24.50 -- Main Library 11.30 -- North Library Commissioner Bird asked to be furnished a copy of; -the bid list that went out with the request for bids on this, and Director Dean advised that he would see to that. 12 _I