HANSON EXCAVATING v. COWLITZ COUNTY

No. 4095-II.

28 Wn. App. 123 (1981)

622 P.2d 1285

HANSON EXCAVATING COMPANY, INC., Appellant, v. COWLITZ COUNTY, Respondent.

The Court of Appeals of Washington, Division Two.

January 9, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Comfort, for appellant.

Henry R. Dunn, Prosecuting Attorney, Gordon W. Sivley, Chief Deputy, and Frederick Kaseburg, Deputy, for respondent.


REED, C.J.

Plaintiff Hanson Excavating Company, Inc. (Hanson), was low bidder on a Cowlitz County sewer construction project. Its bid, however, exceeded the funds available to the County for the project. Thus, no award of contract was made immediately following the bid opening.1 Instead, Encon Engineering, the County's consulting engineering firm, which drew up the original project, redesigned the project in order to reduce the total price...

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