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Lincoln County commissioners approved several contracts for the new fiscal year at meetings on June 10 and June 17.
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Approved contracts include services for cleaning county offices, display and legal advertising, election ballot printing, gas and diesel, road oil, and gravel.
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Contracts for portable restrooms and rock and crushed gravel have not yet been settled.
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No bids were received for the portable restroom contract.
Jim Hammons, District 2 Commissioner
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District 2 Commissioner Jim Hammons stated the Maintenance Department would contact vendors to see if they will submit bids for portable restrooms.
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The contract for rock and crushed gravel is for repair work following flooding and wind damage that occurred between December 2025 and earlier in 2025.
Jim Hammons, District 2 Commissioner
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District 2 Commissioner Jim Hammons stated that rock and gravel crushing for FEMA work will be put out for bid.
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The contract for county printing was set aside until 2027 because the current deal is for two years.
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The approved contracts take effect on July 1 and end on June 30, 2027.
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The Western News won the bids for display and legal advertising and will be the paper of record.
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For legal ads, The Western News bid $0.75 for the first folio and nothing for additional runs.
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The Kootenai Valley Record bid $5 for the first folio and $3 for additional publication for legal ads.
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The Western News won the display advertising contract with a bid of $1.50 per column inch and zero for additional runs.
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The Kootenai Valley Record bid $4 per column inch and $2 per column inch for subsequent publication for display advertising.
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Mack's Mountain Home Cleaning was the only bidder for annual cleaning of county offices in Libby at $83,002.
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The cleaning cost breakdown includes $23,246 for the courthouse, $14,162 for the library, $9,528 for the sheriff's office, $23,428 for the annex building on Mineral Avenue, $6,610 for the Asbestos Resource Program building on California Avenue, and $6,028 for the Lincoln County Youth Court.
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Libby's Golden State Oil was the lone bidder for the county's gas and diesel services.
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Golden State Oil's bid proposed OPIS pricing of regular gas, No. 1 and No. 2 diesel plus a vendor markup of $0.20 per gallon for Libby, $0.25 per gallon for Troy, and $0.45 per gallon for Eureka.
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Billings-based Eagle Printing maintained its status as the ballot printer after it was the lone bidder.
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Eagle Printing's costs include ballots at $0.23 per sheet for front-only printing and $0.32 per sheet for front-and-back printing.
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Instruction sheets on #24 bond white paper were quoted at $0.55 per sheet by Eagle Printing.
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Secrecy envelopes (size #10 non-window) were priced at $0.70 each by Eagle Printing.
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Affidavit envelopes (white, size #11) were priced at $0.11 each plus shipping by Eagle Printing.
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Noble Excavating won the contract for crushed gravel over Thompson Contracting at the June 17 commission meeting.
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Thompson Contracting Inc. (TCI) bid $29 per ton ($40/cubic yard) for Libby 3/8 clean chips.
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Thompson Contracting Inc. (TCI) bid $11.50 per ton ($16/cubic yard) for Troy 5/8 crush.
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Thompson Contracting Inc. (TCI) bid $10.50 per ton ($15/cubic yard) for 3/4 crush.
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Noble Excavating's winning bids included $8.85 per cubic yard for 3/4 road gravel.
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Noble Excavating applied the same pricing of $8.85 per cubic yard for Troy 5/8 and 3/4 gravel.
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Noble Excavating's bid included mobilization costs of $4,000 for Libby and $6,650 for Troy.
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McAsphalt Industries of Toronto won the contract for road oil after it was the only bidder.
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McAsphalt Industries' pricing for road oil ranged from $6.80 to $7.97 per gallon, depending on product and delivery location.
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